Our cookies

Like most websites and web applications, this site uses cookies and local storage. In order to deliver a personalised, responsive service and to improve the site, we remember and store information about how you use it. This is done using simple text files called cookies which are stored on your computer. These cookies are completely safe and secure and will never contain any sensitive information.

We use the following cookies:

• Google Analytics – we set cookies to get information on site usage and popularity, for the purposes of improving the site
  
• Browser capabilities – we store your display dimensions and device capabilities, to more quickly serve content adjusted to display well on your device
  
• Search terms – your search terms are stored so results can be taken with you as you navigate through the site
  
• User preference settings – we store your settings for options including the size of your text or colour themes
  
  

Third-party Cookies

Several modules we use on our website are provided by third party companies, and by displaying them the third party may place cookies on your machine for their own purposes. The reasons for including these third party services are as follows:

• YouTube to display embedded video content view policy
  
• Vimeo to display embedded video content view policy
  
• Soundcloud to display embedded audio content view policy
  
• Twitter to display social feeds from Twitter view policy
  
• Facebook to engage with social interactivity and feeds view policy
  
• Google+ to engage with Google+ social interactivity view policy
  
• AddThis to gain information on how our content is shared view policy
  
• Google Maps to use interactive maps view policy
  
• Disqus to display user comment threads view policy
  

How to disable cookies

To opt out of cookies, you can configure your browser to disable them. Find out how for your relevant browser:

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Please note that disabling cookies will result in some parts of the site not functioning correctly.