Cookie Policy

What are the cookies?

A cookie is a small file your browser saves when you visit a website. It enables the site to store certain information about your visit. Some of these cookies are essential for a website to run as you would expect, while others allow us to provide you with a better service (for example, understanding what content is most popular so we can provide you with more of the same).

Our cookie policy

We understand you need to reach the most relevant information quickly and easily. So, our main aim of using cookies is to provide you with the most optimised ‘user experience’ possible. We may use cookies to help you navigate the website efficiently and perform certain functions. For example, cookies allow us to remember your login details to save you from having to type your username and password every time you visit us or move from page to page. Our website analytics tool also uses cookies to analyse how, when and where visitors use our websites, but this information is not tied to personally identifiable information. We only use this data to improve your experience. For example, we can find the most popular content each week and update our homepage to reflect that current interest. For members, subscribers and registered users of our website, if your cookies aren’t enabled on your computer, it will mean that your experience when logged in to our website will be limited. You will only be able to browse, and you will not be able to use our shop to book an event or order publications. For more details about cookies, visit www.aboutcookies.org.

We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on the website.

Session cookies

We use session cookies to keep you logged in. At the same time, you move through pages and services on our site to enable you to complete transactions on the site and, for example, to pre-populate forms with information to save you from typing in information you have already provided. Session cookies have a short lifetime and will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser.

Persistent cookie

We will use the persistent cookies to enable our website to recognise you when you visit. If you select “Remember Me” when logging in to the site, a persistent cookie will be stored on your computer or device that will remain live for 2 weeks so that the website can keep you logged in when using that browser on that particular computer or device until you choose to log out. If you do not wish for our website to ‘remember you’, you must ensure that you do not select the “Remember Me” checkbox.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. This analysis shows us which areas of the site are popular and not often visited, which helps us use our website resources most effectively. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at: www.google.com/privacypolicy.html

For more information about the cookies we use and why we use them, please email [email protected].

Please note that third parties (including advertising networks and external service providers such as web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance or targeting cookies.

To block cookies, you must activate the settings on your browser that allow you to block all or specific cookies. Please note, however, that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may be unable to access all or parts of our site.

Except for essential cookies, we aim to ensure that cookies will expire after a reasonable timeframe.