Our Cookie Policy

Persistent cookies

Persistent cookies last beyond the session and gain a better understanding of the user. A persistent cookie will keep track of how you found a website, where you visited after and create a map of information to gain a better understanding of its users, beyond its own website. Persistent cookies give website owners a better understanding of who’s using their website, alongside how they’re accessing it. We use our own cookies and third-party cookies to gather this information, although the below list is not exhaustive, here are some examples of persistent cookies:

• How you found our website e.g. search terms or external website links
• The option to remember your username when signing into the site.
• The fact that you may have voted in a poll, so that you are prevented from voting multiple times
• Provide you with adverts which may be relevant, based on web history or demographics.

Targeting/advertising cookies

We use these cookies to deliver adverts relevant to you and your interests. These can be based on the pages you have visited on our website, your search terms on search engines, or simply because of your interests and/or demographics. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They don’t include personally identifiable data but allow us to advertise to people who may benefit from or have an interest in our services.

From time to time, we may embed external content from third party websites (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) within our website. This also includes our chatbot service provider CUApps. These websites/platforms may utilise cookies and the Privacy Policy that will apply to such third-party content will be published on the website of that third-party content provider.

We use Google Analytics to allow us to track how popular our site is and to record visitor trends over time. Google Analytics uses a cookie to help track which pages are accessed. The cookie contains no personally identifiable information, but it does use your computer’s IP address to determine where in the world you are accessing the site from, and to track your page visits within the site.

We also use Google Ads and Google Display Advertising to advertise to you on other platforms such as search engines, websites, and social media. These are targeted based on the pages you have visited on our website, or the search terms you use on search engines.

Your cookie preferences

Any changes to this policy will become effective when we make the revised policy available on our website. Any personal information that we collect through cookies is obtained through transparent notice to you and through your consent.

You can withdraw consent from accepting cookies on our website if you wish to do so. This will stop us from collating session and persistent cookies from you, but the previous data we have collected from you may still exist. If you choose to withdraw consent for cookies from our website you may still view adverts/links of our on other websites as this is done through cookies you may have accepted on other websites such as Google, Facebook or other websites.