What are cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer (or mobile device) by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Typically, they are used to, for example, remember your log-in details, collect statistics to allow the website owners to optimise website performance and functionality, deliver marketing based on your interests, and more.

Why are cookies useful

Our websites use cookies, as do most other websites, as explained above, to help to provide you with the best possible experience that we can.

Our cookies help us to:

• Allow our websites to function correctly, and as you would expect
• Remember your settings during and between visits, to save you needing to re-enter information, including whether you have accepted our use of cookies
• Allow you to share pages with social networks such as Facebook
• Tailor the contents of our sites to help you get what you need, faster
• Provide an interactive chat facility, which improves your experience of using our website
• Monitor and analyse the usage and performance of our websites, so that by targeted improvements we can provide you with a better experience
• Make our marketing more efficient, so allowing us to provide you with more relevant information and at the lowest cost possible

Granting us permission to use cookies

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

If you don’t want to permit our use of cookies

if after reviewing our use of cookies, you would prefer to restrict, block or delete cookies from ours, or any other website, you can use your browser to do this. Each browser is different, so check the ‘Help’ menu of your particular browser (or your mobile phone’s handset manual) to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

Further information about cookies

If you’d like to learn more about cookies in general and how to manage them, including blocking their use, please visit  www.aboutcookies.org .

If you’d like to opt out of interest-based advertising cookies, then you could look at the Network Advertising Initiative website at http://optout.networkadvertising.org/

And for much more information, please visit the Information Commissioner’s Office, at ico.org.uk

Please note that we are not responsible for the content of these, or other, external websites.

Changes to our cookie policy

We may periodically update and make changes to our cookie policy in the future, by posting a new version on this website. You should check this page occasionally to see any updates or changes to our cookie policy.

Contact

If you have any questions, comments or requests regarding this cookie policy, then please contact us or by writing to us at Centaur House, Ancells Business Park, Ancells Road, Fleet, GU51 2UJ