Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to improve your browsing experience and to analyse website traffic.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help the site remember your preferences and gather analytics data.

Types of Cookies We Use

• Strictly Necessary Cookies – required for the website to function. These cannot be switched off in our systems.

• Performance & Analytics Cookies – used to collect information about how visitors use our site (e.g., Google Analytics). These cookies help us understand which pages are most popular, how visitors move around the site, and where improvements can be made.

• Functionality Cookies – allow the site to remember your choices (e.g., form preferences).

Google Analytics Cookies

We use Google Analytics, provided by Google LLC, to help us understand how visitors engage with our website. Google Analytics sets the following cookies:

• _ga – used to distinguish unique users (expires after 2 years).

• _gid – used to distinguish users on a daily basis (expires after 24 hours).

• _gat or dc_gtm* – used to throttle request rates (expires after 1 minute).

• gac* – contains campaign-related information for the user (expires after 90 days).

Google may transfer data collected by these cookies to servers outside the UK or EEA. Where this happens, safeguards are applied to ensure your data remains protected.

You can learn more about Google Analytics cookies here:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies by:

• Refusing consent for analytics cookies in our cookie banner or settings, or

• Installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on:
  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Managing Cookies

When you first visit our site, you will be asked to consent to non-essential cookies. You can manage or withdraw your consent at any time via your browser settings.

For more details on managing cookies, visit www.aboutcookies.org.

Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with a revised “last updated” date.