What are cookies?
Cookies are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer when you visit a website. They can be used for a multitude of purposes, many of which are perfectly benign. For example, to allow you to stay signed in to a website between page loads, to record the contents of your shopping basket, or to record your cookie preferences (yes, really!). They can also be used by advertisers to track you across the internet in order to target advertising based on your perceived interests, by site owners to see what pages are popular and for a host of other reasons too numerous to mention.
For more general information on cookies, please check out this article (external link) "What Are Cookies".
We're not keen on tracking, so we've minimised it where possible.
Our website itself does not use cookies. We have chosen not to use cookie-based analytics - technology website owners can use to track your behaviour - on this site because we don't want to collect data we won't use. We don't offer a sign in facility, so we don't need cookies for that either.
We do use Koko Analytics, an open-source analytics plugin for WordPress that does not use any external services and respects your privacy. We use this to understand which pages are most popular on our site, but it doesn't use cookies and it doesn't follow you around the internet.
Where might you be tracked on this site?
The only place on the site where tracking cookies maybe set is where we have embedded a video from either YouTube or Vimeo. As with all websites that display embedded content, we cannot control what cookies these services drop. You can read the Vimeo cookie policy and the YouTube privacy policy on their respective websites to find out how they use the data they collect. Wherever possible, we use YouTube's 'Privacy Enhanced' option to embed content.
We may link to other websites which do track you (most do). You should always exercise caution when browsing the web.
Cookies in use on this site
| Cookie | Description | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| __cfduid | The cookie is set by CloudFare who provide CDN services to us. The cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information. | 4 weeks | Necessary |