Cookie Options

A cookie is a small piece of text sent to your browser when you visit a website. It helps the website to remember information during your visit, like are you logged in, what is your preferred language and other settings.

Cookies play an important role. Without them, using the web would be a much more frustrating experience.

We use cookies for many purposes. For example, they allow you to sign in to our free service.

Strictly Necessary Purposes

We use security cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials and protect user data from unauthorised parties. These cookies allow our website to remember information that changes the way that the site behaves or looks, and allow access to secure areas of the website for registered members.

Without this type of technology, our services won’t work properly and certain features and functionality will be broken.

Performance Purposes

To analyse how visitors use this website, for instance which pages visitors visit most often, in order to provide a better user experience.

Personalisation Purposes

To remember choices you have made such as print view, language or region.

Advertising Cookies

To keep this service free, we have adverts on our web pages. Cookies are used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement, or to customize advertising across services and make it more relevant to you and to allow us to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns and track whether ads have been properly displayed.

Flash Cookies

Flash cookies may be present in user posted content such as video clips or animations. You can manage Flash cookies via Adobe’s website.

How To Manage And/Or Remove Cookies

If you are using our services via a browser you can restrict, block or remove cookies through your web browser settings. The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers also tells you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to delete old cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether.