Cookies

We are committed to providing you with an Internet experience that respects and protects your personal privacy and choices. Our privacy policy and practices are detailed below.

Helpful definitions:

Personally identifiable information - is information, such as your name, birth date, e-mail address or mailing address, that can be used to uniquely identify you.

Anonymous information - is not personally identifiable information. It is information about how you use our site. Typically anonymous information may include your domain name, I.P. addresses, your type of internet browser or the time of day you visited.

Collecting and using personally identifiable information:

You can visit our site and use many of our services without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself to us. It is only when you enter details to contact us that you will be asked to provide us with personally identifiable information.

We only use this information to respond to your request or for internal marketing purposes.

We do not share cookies with third parties and we do not use third party supplied information about you to customise your browsing experience on our website.

Disclosure of your identity:

We do not disclose the identities of our users unless we are legally required to do so.

Anonymous information:

We collect anonymous information when people use our site, even if they have not entered their personal details.

Cookies

(for detailed information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie):

Cookies are used us to improve your experience when using our website and to track usage (for example what pages are being viewed) to help us understand how the site is being used. We do not use personal information in the cookies and do not track you personally, only the computer you are using. These can be session cookies which are deleted when you close your browser and/or persistent cookies which remain on your computer for a longer period of time.

To delete or stop cookies being placed on your computer refer to the help menu on your internet browser. In a few cases blocking cookies may reduce the functionality of our sites or prevent access to them depending on your chosen browser options.

From May 2012 there are a number of regulations being enforced by the UK Government as part of an EU Directive around the capture, use and sharing of website usage information. We feel that our use of cookies is at the minimum level to give you a great user experience without modifying your experience based upon your usage or the type of user we think you are.

For more information about your rights view :

UK Information Commissioners Office ico.org.uk

Latest Guidance (May 2012) ico.org.uk

Security:

We operate secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection. We have security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of your user data under our control. Only certain employees have access to the information you provide us. While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to data will not occur, we try to prevent such unfortunate occurrences.

Google analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and Internet usage. 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.

Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

To opt out of being tracked by Google analytics across all websites visit www.tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Who to contact

If you have submitted personal data through the site and would like that information deleted from our records, please contact us.