Cookies policy
This page informs you about the use of cookies at this website. Users of this website are subject to its Terms of use which include our Privacy policy and this Cookies policy. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used to help make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
WordPress cookies
This wesbite is hosted in WordPress which sets cookies if you post a comment. WordPress states: “When visitors comment they get cookies stored on their computer. This is purely a convenience, so that the visitor won’t need to re-type all their information again when they want to leave another comment. Three cookies are set for commenters:
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The commenter cookies are set to expire a little under one year from the time they’re set.” Click here for an overview of cookies at WordPress.
Google Analytics cookies
For performance monitoring this website uses Google Analytics which sets these cookies:
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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where vistors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Click here for an overview of privacy at Google.
Cookies in general
Please read this information carefully, as it explains how we deal with the issue of consent for the setting of cookies. (a) Visitors to this website see a notice about cookie use and in accepting it you imply consent to their use. The same is true when a visitor chooses to publish a comment. (b) If you don’t want these cookies then do not accept them, for example by setting your browser to decline all cookies, though doing so might make a difference to how this and other websites work for you. (c) If you are concerned about cookies, or want to know more, good reference sources include (1) the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), (2) JISC Legal, (3) OUT-LAW from Pinsent Masons law firm and (4) the European Commission. More on those four follows.
- The ICO governs cookie use in the UK and publishes its Cookies web page with information about how to decline cookies and other useful ICO advice for members of the public. In December 2012 the ICO delivered an Enforcement Activity Report on cookies.
- The JISC Legal website has its own Legal and Cookies information page with notifications, information and guidance.
- OUT-LAW (Pinsent Masons) publishes the popular aboutcookies.org website which has more information.
- EC Directive (2011 No. 1208) set the scene for modern cookie legislation and the ICO (above) has responsibility for its enforcement in the UK.
Changes to this Cookies policy
We keep our Cookies policy under review and it was last updated on 10 May 2016.