Cookie Policy

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters that can be placed on your computer or mobile device that uniquely identify your browser or device.

2. What are cookies used for?

Cookies allow a site or service to know if your computer or device has visited that site or service before. Cookies can then be used to help understand how the site or service is being used, help you navigate between pages efficiently, help remember your preferences, and generally improve your browsing experience.

3. What cookies does this website use?

Cookies are generally grouped into four categories: strictly necessary, performance, functionality and targeting.

This website uses strictly necessary and functionality cookies only. We do not use performance or analytics cookies, and we do not use targeting or advertising cookies. Nothing on this site tracks you across other websites, and we do not share information about your visit with advertisers or advertising networks.

Strictly necessary cookies. These are essential for the website to work. We use Cloudflare Turnstile on our contact forms to tell people apart from automated spam. This sets a cookie when you submit a form and is required for the form to work.

Functionality cookies. These remember a choice you have made. We set one cookie to record your response to the cookie notice, so that you are not asked again on every page.

Members of our staff signing in to the website's content management system are also issued a session cookie. This applies only to named staff accounts and is not set for visitors.

4. How long will cookies stay on my device?

The length of time a cookie will stay on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a "persistent" or "session" cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your computer or mobile device until they expire or are deleted.

The cookie recording your response to our cookie notice is a persistent cookie and lasts twelve months.

5. First and third party cookies

First-party cookies are cookies that belong to us. Third-party cookies are cookies that another party places on your device through our website.

The only third party that sets a cookie through this website is Cloudflare, which provides the spam protection on our forms and the network our website runs on.

6. How to control and delete cookies

Most browsers let you view, manage and delete the cookies stored on your device, and to refuse cookies altogether. The steps differ between browsers, and your browser's help pages will describe them for the version you are using. You can find general guidance at allaboutcookies.org.

Note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, parts of this website may not work properly — in particular, our contact forms rely on a strictly necessary cookie in order to submit.