Site traffic information and cookies

On your first visit to this site you were asked (by a notification banner) to accept our use of cookies and similar technologies and we'd like to explain how we use these technologies.

To learn about what cookies and similar technologies are, we recommend that you visit the following third party website: www.allaboutcookies.org

Like many websites, we use cookies for a variety of purposes. Some cookies are necessary for the functionality of the site, others log data about your device hardware and your interaction with our site.

We use cloud based servers hosted by third party service providers (which may be located outside the EEA) to collect site traffic information.

On this website we use:

Functional cookies

These cookies are required for basic site functionality and are therefore always enabled. For instance when you exit our cookie banner a cookie is dropped on your device reminding your browser not to re-serve this pop-up box when you later visit this site.

Performance cookies

Analytics

We use a third-party web analytics tool to collect information about how visitors use and interact with our site. The cookies collect information about

• the number of visitors to our site,
• the pages or content with the most traffic,
• approximately where in the world you are visiting the site from; and
• how you have found our site e.g. from a direct search; link on a third-party site; or link in one of our emails.

We use this information to help improve the site, for instance by prioritizing updates of the most read content or the most used functionality.