Cookie Notice

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies to improve your experience and to make this site work properly. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.


What are cookies?



How do we use cookies?

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below.





Some of the pages of this site offer the possibility to the users to leave a comment. Cookies may be set to remember your user details and have it completed when you return to your blog. Users are responsible for the content of their own comments.

We may, in certain situations, use Adobe Flash Player to deliver special content, such as video clips or animation. To improve your user experience, Local Shared Objects (commonly known as Flash cookies) are used to provide functions such as remembering your settings and preferences. Flash cookies are stored on your device, but they are managed through an interface different from the one provided by your web browser.



We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways (e.g. Facebook, Twitter). For these to work the social media sites will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

Where a commenting service provided by third parties (e.g. Facebook) is installed, it might use a cookie to collect web traffic data for the pages where the comment service is installed, even when users do not use the content commenting service.

Also, our site allow you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from our pages and interact with them, e.g. embedding YouTube videos, third party online surveys and third party online ticketing services. Where a content/service of this kind is embedded/installed, it might use a cookie to anonymously gather web traffic data, even when users do not actively use it.




How to control cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help or You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site.