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Cookies are small files placed on your computer's hard drive by websites, they help websites to analyse web traffic or recognise your computer when you visit a particular site.

Cookies can allow web applications to tailor content to suit your needs by remembering your likes, dislikes and preferences - such as the way sites like Amazon and eBay suggest items that you might be interested in based on what you have looked at previously.

Cookies can also be used to track the number of visitors to a website, the time they spent on the site and the pages they looked at.

Cookies we use

Google Analytics

We use cookies to see how people are using our website, such as which pages are being viewed and how often. The tool we use for this is called Google Analytics.

Google provides anonymised data about the visits made to our website. The information gathered by Google Analytics helps us to improve our site and tailor it to our customers' needs.

Google servers automatically record the page requests made when you visit our site. These “server logs” typically include your web request, IP address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. We cannot recognise you from the records we hold and cannot access your computer or any information about you.

You can find out more about the tool we use for this and how it works on the Google Analytics website..

More info: www.google.com/policies/privacy

We also use cookies to allow you to share content directly on the social networking/sharing sites like Facebook and Twitter. Examples would be if you wanted to “like” or “tweet” about a product promoted on our website.

Facebook

Social Sharing - Facebook store cookies which allow the Facebook “Like” social sharing functionality but only if you click on the Facebook “Like” button on our website.

More info: www.facebook.com/about/privacy

Twitter

Social Sharing - Twitter also store cookies which allow their social sharing functionality including the “Tweet” function and to generate usage information during your visit to our website.

More info: www.twitter.com/privacy

We may also link to several other sites which may or may not use cookies in order to track usage and provide you with a better web experience.

If you are concerned about cookies from this or any other website you may want to adjust the privacy settings in your internet browser. By doing this you can withdraw your consent for websites to upload cookies to your computer.

You can find out more about the different types of cookies and what they do at BBC Webwise or at www.allaboutcookies.org.

Accept or decline cookies

Most internet browsers automatically accept (or 'consent' to) cookies, but you can usually change your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. This may reduce your browsing experience but it gives you greater control over the cookies that are placed on your computer. Should you wish to you can add our web domain to your list of websites that you do not want to receive cookies from.

Here are some links to point you towards advice for the most popular internet browsers:

Desktop browsers:

Internet Explorer: IE6, IE7 and IE8, IE9

Last updated 28/02/14

Mobile browsers:

Mobile Safari - for iPhones etc

Android

Blackberry

Netfront (pdf download)

Opera Mini