Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users to provide you with the best experience when you browse our website. This cookie policy explains what cookies are and how we use them.
A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded onto your device when you visit a website. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's browser or hard drive, which can be used to distinguish you from other website users.
Cookies are used to improve the performance of websites and user experience, and to provide website owners with information on how their website is used. For example, cookies may monitor how many times someone visits a website, and which pages they read.
If you would like to learn more about cookies and similar technologies, please see the guidance on the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) website
We use the following types of cookies on our website:
Strictly necessary cookies
| These cookies are necessary for our website to run properly. These cookies are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as filling in forms. We do not need your consent to set these cookies.
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Optional cookies | Analytics cookies: These cookies allow us to track visits to our website and how users interact with our website. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited or how you have used our site.
Targeting / marketing cookies: These are cookies from third parties such as our advertising partners and social media platforms. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. These cookies work by identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising. |
We use 'first party cookies', which are set and collected by us and are only used by our website when you visit it.
We also use 'third party cookies' set and collected by our website service providers, advertising partners and our social media service providers. Further details of the third party cookies set on our website are set out at the end of this policy.
Third parties may use cookies on their own websites, and you may receive cookies delivered from these websites. We have no access to, or control of these cookies. To understand more about third-party cookies used please visit the relevant provider’s websites directly.
Cookies may be either “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies are stored by your browser and remain valid until a set expiry date (unless you delete them earlier). Session cookies are used by the server to store information about user page activities during a session, so that users can easily pick up where they left off or, for example, can store ordering information needed to make shopping carts work. Session cookies will expire at the end of the user session when the web browser is closed.
Further information about the duration that cookies used on our website are stored is set out at the end of this policy.
We will ask for your consent to place all cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested, i.e. strictly necessary cookies (e.g. to allow you to purchase products on our website).
You may refuse or withdraw consent provided to the use of cookies or manage your cookie preferences by choosing the appropriate settings on your browser, you can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the option at the bottom of any page on our website.
Most browsers have built in privacy settings that provide options for accepting cookies and how long they should be stored for. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
Please note, if you block strictly necessary cookies then you may be unable to access certain areas of our website and certain pages will not function properly. We cannot accept liability for any malfunctioning of your device or its installed web browser as a result of any attempt to turn off cookies.
We may update our cookie policy from time to time. If we make significant changes, we will let you know, but please regularly check to ensure you are aware of the most up-to-date information.
This cookie policy was last updated on [November 2024].
The table below provides more information about the individual cookies we use and why:
Cookie category and provider | Cookie name | Purpose | Duration |
Cookie preference
(Strictly necessary) | _clcCookieConsent | This cookie is used to remember your choices about accepting cookies when you visit our website. This cookie is strictly necessary for the operation of our Site. This means we will not ask you for consent before we set this cookie. | 90 days |
Google Analytics
(Analytics) | _ga
| Google analytics is used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. We collect information including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. | 365 days |
Google Analytics
(Analytics) | _gaV4CQ214F6V | This Cookie is used by Google analytics to store and count page views and used for statistics when reporting. | 365 days |
Meta
(Marketing) | _fbp | This cookie is used to store and collect information about how visitors use and interact with our website. The cookie is also used to track your visits across websites and re-target personalised advertising when viewing sites displaying meta advertisements. | 90 days |
YouTube
(Marketing) | AEC SID* SSID SOCS _Secure* | We embed videos from our official YouTube channel, using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. You can read about YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode on YouTube’s embedding videos information page. If you visit a page containing a YouTube video and are logged in to a YouTube or Google account, Google may use cookies for security purposes, remember your preferences, and receive information about the videos you watch for analytics and advertising purposes cookies and collect data linked to your Google account. For more information, see the Google Privacy Policy.[HS8] [EG9] | 180 days |
We'd like to set cookies to understand how you use this site. We use services such as YouTube, Flockler and Hireroad that may also use third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our Cookies Policy.
We use these for core functionality, such as storing this cookie consent preference. These are loaded automatically and cannot be disabled by the user.
We use Google Analytics to track visits to our website and how users interact with our website. This helps us improve the way our website works.
We use Google Ads Conversions & Facebook Pixel to measure how you use and interact with our website and with our advertisements.
These cookies may be set by third party websites and do things like measure how you view videos or other content that is embedded on our site.
