When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. This sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your computer. These are called “cookies.” These cookies cannot be used to identify you personally and are used to improve services for you by:

• Letting you navigate between pages efficiently
• Enabling a service to recognize your computer so you don’t have to give the same information during one task
• Recognizing that you have already given a username and password so you don’t need to enter it for every web page requested
• Measuring how many people are using services so that the site can be streamlined and increase capacity, if necessary, for quicker online response

See allaboutcookies.org or www.youronlinechoices.eu to learn more about cookies. Visit www.google.co.uk/goodtoknow/data-on-the-web/cookies for a video about cookies. Users typically have the opportunity to set their browser to accept all or some cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these options, of course, means that personalized services cannot be provided and the user may not be able to take full advantage of all of a website’s features. Refer to your browser’s Help section for specific guidance on how it allows you to manage cookies and how you may delete cookies you wish to remove from your computer. Multiple cookies may be found in a single file depending on which browser you use. The cookies used on this website have been categorized based on the categories found in the ICC UK Cookie guide, as follows:

Category 1: strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.

Category 2: performance cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website; for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works. This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.