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.

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.

We use the following cookies:

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  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or make use of e-billing services.
  
  
  
  

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  • Analytical or performance cookies. These 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.
  
  
  
  

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  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  
  
  
  

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  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
  
  
  
  

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Please note that third parties may also use cookies. These third parties may include, for example:

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  • advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies.
  
  
  
  

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  • Photo and video content sharing sites such as YouTube, where we have embedded photos and video content into our website.
  
  
  
  

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  • Social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ where we have included 'share' buttons on our website and you are logged into their service.
  
  
  
  

We have no control over these third party cookies and you should check the relevant third party website for more information about these and for details of the cookies they use and how to opt out of their cookies. 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 essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.