A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are.

A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.

Two types of cookies are used on this website:

• Session Cookies - These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site.
• Persistent cookies - These remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie). 

Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly. Most major websites use cookies. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you.

To find out more about cookies, please visit the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) website

• To allow you to carry information across pages of our site and avoid having to re-enter information.
• To allow you to maintain a shopping basket 
• Within registration to allow you to access stored information.

To help us recognise you as a unique visitor (just a number) when you return to our website and to allow us to tailor content or advertisements to match your preferred interests or to avoid showing you the same adverts repeatedly.

To compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our site and to help us improve the structure of our website. We cannot identify you personally in this way. 

Within research surveys to ensure you are not invited to complete a questionnaire too often or after you have already done so.

Third parties serve cookies via this site. These are used for the following purposes:

• To tailor content to your preferences
• To count the number of anonymous users of our site.
• To provide security within shopping baskets or transactions.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our site if cookies are disabled.

To find out how to disable/enable cookies, please visit the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) website.