What are Cookies?

This is what Wikipedia has to say on the matter…

“A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is usually a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user’s web browser while a user is browsing a website. When the user browses the same website in the future, the data stored in the cookie can be retrieved by the website to notify the website of the user’s previous activity. Cookies were designed to be a reliable mechanism for websites to remember the state of the website or activity the user had taken in the past. This can include clicking particular buttons, logging in, or a record of which pages were visited by the user even months or years ago.

Although cookies cannot carry viruses, and cannot install malware on the host computer, tracking cookies and especially third-party tracking cookies are commonly used as ways to compile long-term records of individuals’ browsing histories — a major privacy concern that has prompted European and US law makers to take action.”

Some benefits of Cookies.

Our website may on occasion use cookies, which help us to:

Improve the user experience
Speed up the transfer of information to you – i.e. improve your browsing experience
Improve the security of this website
Allow you to receive information from our linked social networking platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter

The cookies that we may decide to use, both now and in the future will not:

Harvest any personally identifiable information (without your permission)
Harvest any sensitive information (without your permission)
Forward the above data to third parties

Allowing us to use Cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are comfortable with this arrangement. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

Learn how to disable Cookies in Mozilla FireFox here
Learn how to disable Cookies in Windows Internet Explorer (versions 7 & 8) here
Learn how to disable Cookies in Chrome here
Learn how to disable Cookies in Safari here
Learn how to disable Cookies in Android here
Learn how to disable Cookies in BlackBerry here

Thank you.