What Are Cookies and Why Do We Use Them

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that your browser stores locally on your computer. Cookies help websites to deliver functionality that might require some memory of a user action. For example, an online shop would probably use cookies to remember the contents of a user's basket so that they don't lose all of their shopping when they close the page without checking out.

Most websites use cookies and require them for the core functionality of the website. Luckily, we don't rely on cookies to make our website work so you can turn them off without fear of losing access to this website!

If you want to, you can turn cookies off by changing the privacy settings of your browser. This may vary between browsers so please check your browser's support documents to find the correct method for you.

How Do We Use Cookies?

We use a tool known as "Google Analytics" on this website to keep track of how many users are accessing our website, and to see which pages they browse through. Analytics help us to understand our audience so that we can deliver a better service to everyone. Google Analytics uses cookies to identify users as "unique users", which helps us get a better idea of how many different people access our website. To find out more about how Google uses cookies, please read Google's Cookie Policy

You can opt out of Google Analytics across every domain by downloading this browser add-on.

In addition to Google Analytics, we use temporary "Session" cookies to remember which Blog category you want to look at. If you use our blog filter, we will set a temporary session cookie so that you don't have to re-choose a category every time you reload or change the page.

We will never use cookies to store sensitive information.