Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

We use cookies to ensure the best experience for our website users. Accepting cookies is usually the best way to make sure you get the best from a website.

If you wish to control or disable cookies, you can easily do this through your browser settings. However, restricting cookies may affect your experience on our website and prevent some services and tools from working.

All browsers are different. Depending on the browser you are using, cookies can be managed according to the steps below.

Microsoft Internet Explorer:

  1. Choose the menu ‘tools’ then ‘Internet Options’

  2. Click on the ‘privacy’ tab

  3. Select the setting the appropriate setting

More detailed instructions are available here.

Google Chrome

  1. Click on the menu icon at the top-right of your browser and select ‘Settings’

  2. Click the ‘Advanced’ tab, locate the ‘Privacy and Security’ section and select the ‘Content settings’ button

  3. Select ‘Cookies’ menu item and locate ‘Allow sites to save and read cookie data’

More detailed instructions are available here.

Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Click on the menu icon at the top-right of your browser window and select ‘Preferences’

  2. Then select the ‘Privacy and Security’ tab

  3. Locate the ‘History’ section, then select ‘use custom settings for history’

More detailed instructions are available here.

Apple Safari

  1. Click on the cog icon at the top of your browser window and select the ‘Preferences’ option

  2. Click on ‘Security’

  3. Select the appropriate “Cookies and website data” option

More detailed instructions are available here.

If your browser is not listed here, please check the help settings within your browser or use a search engine to find answers on the best way to enable or disable cookies in your chosen browser.

By Browser Extension

Alternatively, you may wish to install a browser extension such as Ghostery.

Ghostery detects and blocks tracking technologies on the websites you visit to speed up page loads, eliminate clutter, and protect your data and privacy. It keeps you informed on what companies are tracking you and provides you the tools you need to control what to block and when.

To find out more or to download the Ghostery extension for your browser click here.

More information

For more information on cookies, what they do, and how to control them, please visit the following external links:

www.aboutcookies.org

www.youronlinechoices.eu

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Performance cookies collect aggregated and anonymous information about traffic to our website and how visitors use our website. This may include the number of visitors to our website, the websites that referred them to our website, the pages that they visited, what time of day they visited, whether they have visited our website before, and other similar information.

We use this information to help operate our services more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our website. Google Analytics, which uses its own cookies, which collects statistical data regarding user demographics, counting visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site.