We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998 (“the Act”). Our privacy policy is set out for you here and tells you about the practices we follow to look after your personal data. It sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
We may collect and process the following data about you:
Where we are able to, we may collect information about your computer, including your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration purposes and in order to analyse visits made to our site. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Other sites which may be accessed from our site (and over which we have no control) may use cookies too.
Where we give you (or when you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain restricted parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Any personal information transmitted over the internet via our website is secured using SSL encrypted. However transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
We may use information held about you in the following ways;
We will not share your information with any other organization unless you have given us your expressed written consent to do so.
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page.
When you visit our website, we may send information to your computer about your visit and this is stored in a small text file called a ‘cookie’. Cookie files contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. Our website can access this information (and only this information) on later visits, if your browser permits. They help us to improve our site and deliver a better, more personalized service to you. We do this so we can improve the experience of all users by gathering anonymous information about usage of the website. Typically we might use information to identify popular areas and improve navigation within the website.
All recent versions of popular browsers give users a level of control over cookies. You may delete any cookies already on your computer. You may also disable the cookies we use but doing so may mean you are unable to access all the facilities our site offers. Please refer to your browser’s help files for appropriate instructions.
gat – Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named.
Ga – Used to distinguish users
Gld – Used to distinguish users
DYNSRV – This cookie is believed to be used for load balancing to manage server traffic demand
Wfvt – This allows a security plugin we use to oper
wfwaf-autocookie – This cookie is set by the WordPress security plugin “Wordfence”. It is used to authenticate user’s login request.
wordfence_verfiedhuman – Cookie set by the Wordfence Security WordPress plugin to protect the site against malicious attacks.
wfvt_973875253 – This allows a security plugin we use to operate
wordpress logged in – After login, wordpress sets the wordpress_logged_in_[hash] cookie, which indicates when you’re logged in, and who you are, for most interface use.
wordpress8ec – Essential WordPress session management cookies for logged in users.
wordpress test cookie – WordPress sets this cookie when you navigate to the login page. The cookie is used to check whether your web browser is set to allow, or reject cookies.
wp setting – WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.
wp setting time – WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.