We use cookies to improve your experience on our website. By continuing to browse this website you accept our cookie policy.
A cookie is usually a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in your web browser while you are browsing a website. When you browse the same website in the future, the data stored in the cookie can be retrieved to notify the website of your previous activity.
Cookies are used on more than 90 per cent of sites and serve many functions. For example, they can help us to remember your username and preferences, analyse how well our website is performing, or even allow us to recommend content we believe will be most relevant to you.
Certain cookies contain personal information. For example, if you click on 'remember me' when logging in, a cookie will store your username. Most cookies won't collect information that identifies you, but will instead collect more general information, such as how users arrive at and use our websites or a user's general location.
These cookies are divided into the following four categories:
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Purpose: Necessary for the functionality of the website’s donation pages.
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Purpose: Stores users' consent to Google's advertising policies.
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Purpose: Saves cookie consent preferences
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Purpose: Some of our custom cookies are set to monitor various aspects of your experience so that we can make improvements to the site but these do not record personal information. The cookies called site_js_version, site_stylesheet and site_textsize are used to aid accessibility by allowing users to change the appearance of elements such as text and colours.
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Purpose: Necessary for the functionality of the website's shop.
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Purpose: This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as ‘Cross-Site Request Forgery’.
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Purpose: This cookie is essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without it services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.
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Purpose: These cookies are necessary for the functionality of our website’s chatbox function.
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Purpose: Used by Google Analytics to provide the site owner with analysis of who uses the site, what they are looking for and other information. This allows the site owner to know what people are searching for. This information can be used in the future to improve the site content.
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Purpose: We use HotJar to create heatmaps of users’ interactions with pages on our website, and to make anonymous recordings of users’ sessions on the website. These cookies are all used to make these recordings, and to differentiate between users. This information can be used to improve the site’s content and functionality.
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Purpose: These cookies are used by the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform.
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Purpose: Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services, and for targeting purposes to build a profile of our visitors’ interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising.
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Purpose: These cookies are used by the Facebook pixel. This helps us to use sponsored Facebook posts more effectively, by measuring the number of people who complete an action on our website (like signing up for an event, or making a donation) in response to a sponsored post we've placed on Facebook.
The pixel also allows us to create an audience, using data held by Facebook, to deliver sponsored posts through Facebook which are more likely to be relevant to your interests. That means that after visiting our site, you might see our sponsored posts on Facebook instead of other ads Facebook could otherwise show you. This does not provide us with any information which could identify you to us. (Read Facebook's data policies.)
Purpose: Used by Facebook to deliver, measure and improve the relevancy of their advertising and to deliver a series of advertisement products on Facebook.
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Purpose: This set of cookies is used to build groups of users to target advertising.
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Purpose: This set of cookies is used to build groups of users to target advertising.
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Purpose: Helps us use sponsored tweets more effectively, by measuring the number of people who complete an action on our website (like signing up for an event, or making a donation) in response to an sponsored tweet we've placed on Twitter.
Also allows us to create an audience, using data held by Twitter, to deliver promoted tweets through Twitter which are more likely to be relevant to your interests. That means that after visiting our site, you might see our promoted tweets on Twitter instead of other ads Twitter could otherwise show you. This does not provide us with any information which could identify you to us. (Read Twitter's data policies.)
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Purpose: These DoubleClick cookies are used to build a profile of our visitors’ interests to show relevant ads on other sites. The cookies carry information about how our visitors use our website, and any advertising that the they may have seen before visiting our site. These cookies work by uniquely identifying your browser and device.
As we've explained, cookies help you to get the most out of our websites. However, if you wish to disable our cookies, please follow the instructions below.
Please remember that if you do choose to disable cookies, you may find that certain sections of our website do not work properly.
Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Chrome. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Chrome, refer to the following page from Google: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Explorer. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Internet Explorer, refer to the following page from Microsoft: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Firefox includes ‘Enhanced Tracking Protection,’ which can automatically block a wide range of tracking techniques. This is available at three levels: Standard, Strict and Custom.
Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Firefox. For more information, refer to the following page from Mozilla: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop
Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Safari. For more information, refer to this page from Apple: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac