About cookies

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• to tailor the website to your browser
• to help us analyse the use of the website
• to allow applications on our website to work correctly  - for example, making sure that we know when you have logged on or off and which part of an application you are accessing
• to optimise the delivery of advertising on the website

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Our use of cookies

We will not use cookies to store any personally identifiable information about you. We will not make any attempt to find out the identities of people visiting our website without their prior permission. 

If we want to collect personally identifiable information through our website for example, when you request a service from us, we will tell you beforehand. We will make it clear when we collect this information and will explain what we intend to do with it.

The following sections contain detailed information about the cookies we use on our web pages, with information on their expiry and why they are used.

Google Analytics – used on many of our sites

The following Google Analytics cookies appear on many of our websites. You can choose to opt out of Google Analytics on all websites by using the Google Analytics opt-out tool.