What are cookies?

Our website uses cookies for various web functions, and to help improve the user experience.

A cookie is a small data file stored on your computer that comes from the web browser you’re using. It can have a variety of uses and functionalities including storing information about your preferences, speeding up your searches and recognising you when you re-visit. Cookies are also used to track overall visits and visitor location. This helps us identify visitor numbers and patterns.

Some cookies have a session-limited lifespan and are removed when you close your browser; whereas permanent cookies last a lot longer and sometimes indefinitely.

Types of cookies

We use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies.
  These are cookies that are required for the operation of parts of our websites. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our websites or make use of reservations services. Strictly necessary cookies do not require consent as they provide functionality as requested by the browser.

• Performance cookies.
  They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our webpages and see how these visitors navigate around our site. This helps us to improve the way our website works by optimising our page layouts, search tools and general usability.

• Functionality cookies.
  These are used to recognise when you return to our websites in the future. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by your name and remember your preferences such as language settings and time zone.

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

If you would like to read more information about cookies, or would like to find out about how to disable them, please visit www.aboutcookies.org

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