As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are
tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page
describes
what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these
cookies. We
will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may
downgrade
or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
For more general information on
cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
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the
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experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users
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