What Are Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information that websites can record within your web browser to help them remember things and provide a better, more interactive, service to you. They enable websites to remember information from one page to another. As different web pages cannot remember what has happened on a previous page, cookies are essential for certain processes – shopping carts for example. Without cookies the checkout page would not know what you had chosen to buy on previous pages.
Cookies are most commonly used to help with generating statistics for websites enabling them to be tailored to what it's user's want and find interesting.
Cookies Used on this site
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3rd Party Cookies
Occasionally we do not have control over cookies used on our site. For example when we use content from a third party suppliers (like embedding a youtube video into our blog or using social media buttons. In this case, please check with the relevant website to find out more about their cookies policy.
Managing cookies
Viewing/Enabling/disabling cookies
PC – Internet Explorer
Found Under:
Tools-internet options-privacy
Accepting Cookies
Slide to option that suits your needs
View Cookies
Tools-internet options-browsing history-settings-view files
PC – Chrome
Found Under:
Spanner Icon-Settings-under the bonnet – content settings – cookies
Accepting Cookies choose from:
- Allow local data to be set
- Allow local data to be set for the current session only
- Block sites from setting any data
- Block third-party cookies and site data
- Clear cookies and other site and plug-in data when I close my browser
View Cookies
All cookies and site data button.
PC – Firefox
Found Under:
Firefox – Options – Privacy. Where it says 'Firefox will' select 'Use custom settings for history'
Accepting Cookies choose from:
- Accept cookies from sites
- Accept third-party cookies
View Cookies
Show Cookies button (type website address in to search bar to see cookies from that site)
PC – Opera
Found Under:
Menu-Settings-Preferences-advacned-cookies
Accepting Cookies choose from:
- Accept Cookies
- Accept Cookies only from sites I visit
- Never Accept Cookies
View Cookies
Click on the Manage Cookies button
Mac – Safari
Found Under:
Safari - Preferences - Privacy
Accepting Cookies choose from:
- Always
- Never
- Only from sites I visit
View Cookies
Show Cookies button (type website address in to search bar to see cookies from that site)
Mac – Firefox
Found Under:
Firefox – Preferences – Security. Where it says 'Firefox will' select 'Use custom settings for history'
Accepting Cookies choose from:
- Accept cookies from sites
- Accept third-party cookies
View Cookies
Show Cookies button (type website address in to search bar to see cookies from that site)
Mac – Chrome
Found Under:
Spanner Icon-Settings-under the bonnet – content settings – cookies
Accepting Cookies choose from:
- Allow local data to be set
- Allow local data to be set for the current session only
- Block sites from setting any data
- Block third-party cookies and site data
- Clear cookies and other site and plug-in data when I close my browser
View Cookies
All cookies and site data button.
Mac – Opera
Found Under:
Opera-Preferences-advanced-cookies
Accepting Cookies choose from:
- Accept Cookies
- Accept Cookies only from the site I visit
- Never accept cookies
View Cookies
Manage Cookies button.