COOKIES AND IP ADDRESSES
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to analyse aggregate information. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we put on your computer. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our websites, which helps us to provide you with a better experience when you browse our websites, and also allows us to improve our sites. The cookies we use are “analytical” cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the sites when they are using them. This helps us to improve the way our websites work, for example by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. Our cookies are not used to collect personally identifiable information about you.
We list below the cookies we use on each of our websites, and provide a brief explanation of what those cookies do.
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. For more information on this, and more information about cookies in general, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org. For information about how to delete cookies from your mobile ‘phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.
Please be aware that restricting cookies is likely to impact on your ability to use our websites effectively and may make areas of our websites inaccessible or inoperable.
The cookies we use are as follows:
utma (Unique visitor cookie)
utmb (Session cookie)
utmz (Campaign cookie)
utmv (Visitor segmentation cookie)
utmx (Google website optimizer cookie)