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Cookies are small text files that can be placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites. Some cookies are essential for the running of any modern website.

The cookies we use work in the following ways:-

Deliver the website content, as you'd expect
Improve the speed/security of the site
Some allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
Some offer other free services or paid for content through sponsorship and advertising

We use the following cookies:

Granting us permission to use cookies

You are in control. If the settings on the 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 are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our (or any other) site you can turn them off, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

Website Functionality and Cookies

Cookies help to make our website work. There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

Social Website Cookies

So you can easily share our content on social networking sites, we have included some buttons on our site.
The privacy implications of this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.

Visitor Statistics Cookies

We gather visitor statistics, such as how many people have visitedus and what type of technology they are using and this helps us to improve our website.

Advertising Cookies

Cookies are widely used in online advertising. Our advertising partners cannot gain personally identifiable information from these cookies.

You can learn more about online advertising at http://www.youronlinechoices.com. You can opt-out of almost all advertising cookies at http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices, although we would prefer that you didn't as ultimately adverts help keep much of the internet free. It is also worth noting that opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you won't see adverts, just simply that they won't be tailored to you any longer.

We use:

Disqus - used for the Chat pages.

Sites often show adverts and in our case the adverts are managed by partners who specialise in providing adverts for multiple sites.

Invariably these partners place cookies to collect anonymous data about the websites you visit so they can personalise the adverts you are shown.

Turning Cookies Off

You are in control and you can switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies, you can learn how here.

!Note - Switching cookies off will limit the functionality on some parts of our site.

If you are worried about security, rather than switching off cookies in your browser, you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting any cookies considered to be invasive.