INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

For further information on cookies you can visit:

http://www.aboutcookies.org

TYPES OF COOKIES USED ON OUR WEBSITE

We use the following cookies on our website:

• Strictly necessary cookies/Session cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. We use a session cookie to remember your log-in for you and offer you secure services. We deem these strictly necessary for the working of the website. If these are disabled, then various functionality on the site will be unavailable.

• Analytical/Performance cookies. These cookies record a visit to our site, the pages visited and the links followed. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. Performance cookies include those provided by Google analytics.

• External web services essential cookies – We occasionally use a number of external web services on the site, mostly to display content within our web pages, e.g. LinkedIn.

You can find out more information about some of the cookies we use in the table below:

We use Google Analytics to understand how the site is being used in order to improve the user experience. User data is anonymous. This analytics tool is used to analyse site usage, how our users arrive at our site, what they do on the site, what browser they are using and on what operating system etc. However, this analytics data is not tied to personal information. You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its analytics service at:

http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

HOW YOU CAN MANAGE COOKIES

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit:

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

UPDATES TO THIS COOKIE POLICY

We may update this policy from time to time. You should regularly return to this page, so you can review any changes we may make and see details of any new cookies we may add to this cookie policy.