COOKIES AND HOW THEY BENEFIT YOU

Our website uses cookies to make our website work as you’d expect and to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you browse websites to make your visit smoother and to enable website owners to analyse user behaviour.

Our cookies help us:

• Make our website work as you'd expect

• Save you having to login every time you visit the site

• Remember your settings during and between visits

• Improve the speed/security of the site

• Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook

• Continuously improve our website for you

• Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)

We do not use cookies to:

• Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)

• Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)

• Pass data to advertising networks

• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties

• Pay sales commissions

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below

 

GRANTING US PERMISSION TO USE COOKIES

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you agree to their use. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

 

TYPES OF COOKIES AND WHAT THEY ARE USED FOR

Our Own Cookies - We use cookies to make our website work including: determining if you are logged in or not and remembering your search settings. There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

Social Media Cookies - So you can easily “Like” or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site. We use these cookies to:

• enable sharing to social media platforms (e.g. Facebook and Twitter);

• embed video/audio content (YouTube, Vimeo, Audioboom); or

• process donations (Virgin Money Giving);

• send marketing emails, if you sign up to our newsletter (Mailchimp).

The privacy implications on this will vary across social networks and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies - We use Google Analytics, to collect information about visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site, how visitors find us, and how long they stay so we can measure the site’s performance and make improvements. 

 

SWITCHING COOKIES OFF

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser’s settings to stop it from accepting cookies, or by declining to accept cookies when prompted by our website. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, you can visit About Cookies or Attacat.

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact the functionality of some areas of our website. If you choose not to allow our cookies you can still use our website, but some functions may not work and your experience may not be as smooth or as enjoyable as we aim to deliver for all our users.