Cookie policy
We use cookies on our website. You’ll find a notice about this on our homepage as well, which also links back to this policy.
We last updated our policy on 29th July 2025.
Information about cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is placed onto your computer (or other electronic device) when you access our website.
There are 4 different types of cookies:
- Strictly-necessary cookies (required for the website to run). These allow you to do things like log in securely.
- Performance cookies (which measure how many visitors use our site, which pages they visit and how they interact with the site). These help us to improve our website.
- Functionality cookies (which remember specific visitor’s preferences for the way they use our site, e.g. language settings or font size).
- Targeting/advertising cookies (these collect information about individual visitors that enable us, or third parties, to provide relevant advertisements to those who have visited our site)
Our website may use each type of cookie in order to:
- Make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable
- Improve our services
- Recognise you whenever you visit this website and distinguish you from other users of our site
- Obtain information about your preferences and use of our site
- Provide you with advertising that is tailored to your interests
- Carry out research and data analysis to help us to improve our content and services and to better understand our customer preferences and interests
Your web browser places cookies on your hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about you.
We have set out specific details of the cookies we use on our site in the table below.
Third-party cookies
Like many other websites, third parties may also set cookies on our website. These third parties are responsible for the cookies they set on our site and we have no control over them. For further information on how their cookies policies work, please visit their websites.
Managing cookies
You can manage cookies yourself.
You can set your web browser to refuse cookies, delete cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent.
You will need to visit the web browser’s site to manage, but for ease we have provided links to popular browsers below:
- Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
- Microsoft Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
- Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
- Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=en_US
For further information about cookies and how to manage or disable them please go to: www.aboutcookies.org.
Please also note that if you change/block cookies then:
- some parts of our website may not function properly or as well as they otherwise might;
- changes will apply across all websites that you visit (unless you choose to block cookies only from particular websites); and
- the settlings that you change will only apply on the device on which you change the settings and will not apply across all other devices that you use.
Specific details
We have set out in the table below details of each of the cookies on our site, a description of what they do and, where relevant, external links that provide more information about them:
Cookie Name |
Description |
External Information (if relevant) |
Google Analytics |
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. |
Google's privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html |
Anonymous analytics |
These cookies tell us whether you have visited our Site before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies, and if you do not, we generate new ones. |
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HubSpot Cookies (essential and analytics & tracking) |
HubSpot uses cookies to track visitors and contacts. These cookies help us deliver personalised content, identify returning users, facilitate form submissions, and monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. HubSpot cookies collect data about your browsing behavior and how you interact with our website, enabling improved user experience and targeted marketing communications. |
HubSpot’s cookie policy is available at: |
Microsoft Clarity |
We use Microsoft Clarity to analyse user interactions on our website. Clarity cookies collect data about how users interact with our pages, including clicks, scrolls, and session recordings, to help us understand website performance and improve user experience. This data is aggregated and anonymised, and individual users cannot be personally identified. |
Microsoft’s privacy policy is available at: |
Microsoft Ads |
We use Microsoft Ads to promote our website through targeted advertising across the Microsoft Advertising Network, including Bing. Microsoft Ads cookies enable us to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, track user interactions with our ads, and deliver personalized advertising based on browsing history and interests. |
Microsoft’s privacy policy is available at: |
Google Ads |
Google Ads cookies are used to deliver targeted advertising across the Google network, measure the effectiveness of our ad campaigns, and personalize advertisements based on users' browsing history and interests. They help us understand user behavior following engagement with our ads, optimising our marketing activities. Data collected is anonymised and aggregated for analysis. |
Google's privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html. |