Information about our use of cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. BY CONTINUING TO USE OUR WEBSITE, YOU ARE AGREEING TO OUR USE OF COOKIES.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

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• Analytical/performance cookies. They 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 use Google Analytics for this purpose. Google will store and use the information collected from the analytical/performance cookies on our site. Google's privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, the list of searches you don’t wish to see cost notifications for).
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Information about individual cookies

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

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