Our website uses a number of different kinds of cookies to collect data relating to your use of our website. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is downloaded on to your computer when you visit our website. We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. These essential cookies are always enabled because our website won’t work properly without them. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our website if you do so.

Analytical or performance cookies

These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We may also use the information collected from our use of cookies to estimate our audience size, analyse trends and general usage patterns of our site, optimise our site, and for other research and marketing purposes. This is statistical information and does not identify any individual.

Functionality cookies

These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

You can choose to accept or reject analytical, functionality and targeting cookies by clicking the relevant buttons in the cookies banner.

The specific types of cookies we use are listed below:

As shown above, we use Google Analytics. An overview of Google Analytics is available at http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html. Google Analytics also uses web beacons (also known as web bugs). A “web beacon” is a clear picture file which keeps track of your navigation through the site. Turning off the site’s cookies as detailed above will prevent web beacons from tracking your specific activity. The web beacon may still record an anonymous visit from your IP address but unique information will not be recorded.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies.

These are third party advertising cookies (for example, Facebook Advertising, LinkedIn Advertising and Twitter Advertising), which allow these parties to  track your response to their adverts and/or identify you on any other website that you visit which also contains their adverts. Please refer to their privacy notices for further details on such cookies.

The website www.allaboutcookies.org (run by the Interactive Marketing Bureau) contains further guidance on cookies and web beacons, including step-by-step guidance on how cookies can be switched off by users.

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please contact us at tvc@stanhopeplc.com