1. What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to here as a “device”) browser from a website’s computer and is stored on your device’s hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other websites. Many websites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows (statistics).

On our website, cookies record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor the websites to your interests. Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these means that certain personalised features cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly they may not be able to take full advantage of all of the website’s features. Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

During the course of any visit to our website, the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

2. How Do We Use Cookies?

Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience. For example, if on a previous visit you went to our services pages, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight service information on your second and subsequent visits.

3. How to Reject Cookies?

A list of the main cookies that may be used on this website (and what each is used for) together with ways to minimise the number of cookies you receive can be found below under note 7.

4. How to Control and Delete Cookies

We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our website, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The Help function within your browser should tell you how. 

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of  websites.

If you wish to view the data stored within a cookie, open it from within your browser settings – you’ll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are an identification code, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.

For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.

5. Third Party Cookies

When you visit a page with content embedded from a different site, for example, YouTube or Flickr, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. We do not currently have any embedded contents on this site, but the sites that do are not normally able control the dissemination of these third-party cookies. You should check the respective third party websites for more information about these.

6. Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google. Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to evaluate your use of website(s) and compile reports for us on website activity.

Google stores the information collected by the cookie on their servers. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. 

By using our website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

For more information on the cookie set by Google Analytics, including information on how to opt out please visit Google’s privacy policy page (this link opens in a new tab)

7. List of the Cookies that this site uses 

This is a list of the main cookies that may be set by the our website, and what each is used for:

From the Google Analytics website: “Google Analytics uses a set of cookies to collect information on behalf of businesses which use the Google Analytics service and report site usage statistics to them without personally identifying individual visitors. ‘_ga’, the main cookie used by Google Analytics, enables the service to distinguish one visitor from another and lasts for 2 years. Any site that implements Google Analytics, including Google services, uses the ‘_ga’ cookie. Each ‘_ga’ cookie is unique to the specific property, so it cannot be used to track a given user or browser across unrelated websites.”

trx_addons_is_retina

This cookie determines if the user has a retina display.

elementor

This allows the website to implement or change the website’s content in real-time

wpEmojiSettingsSupports

This cookie is for when a user interacts with emojis on a WordPress website. It helps determine if the user’s browser can display emojis