PRIVACY STATEMENT & COOKIES We use cookies to make this website as useful to you as possible. Cookies are small text files that a website can write to your computer. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. We use cookies to identify you and allow you to log in once to our web site and search or post without having to log in again and again. Under the law, we are able to store cookies on your device if they are essential to the operation of our website but that for all others we need your permission to do so. This website does use some cookies that are not essential to its operation, but which provide useful information to use about how the site is being used so we can continue to improve it. We do not identify or track individual users. Google Analytics, provided by Google, Inc. uses cookies to help us to analyse how users use the site. It counts things like the number of visitors, which pages they visited and how long they stayed on the site. Google transmits and stores this information on servers in the USA, may transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google undertakes not to associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. To delete cookies already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. Some other third party cookies may also be set by services that appear on our pages, although these are not within our control. These are set by Twitter, Facebook and other social media and relate to your ability to share content on this site, as indicated by the relevant icons. The following is a summary of the types of cookies that are being used on this site, along with information on how you can block them. Cookie Type   Cookie File Names   Purpose   Active on this site   More Information   Essential Site Cookies   Various   Site cookies are essential to the operation of this website. They are usually set when you first visit the site and deleted when you close your browser. If blocked, this site will not operate correctly   No   n/a   CMS (Content Management System)   Various   Cookies are set by our CMS/Blog system when you first visit this site. These cookies are not used by us. These cookies are usually deleted when a user closes their browser   Yes   n/a   Google Analytics   _utma _utmb _utmc _utmz   These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. The information is used to compile reports that let us improve the site. The information is collected in any anonymous form, including the number of visits to this site, how you arrived at the site, and which pages you visted.   Yes   You can opt-out of these cookies by following this link:http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout   Adverts   various   Our advertisers may use cookies to serve you with adverts based on your previous search and web usage. These cookies are not used directly by us.   Yes   n/a   Site Cookie Acceptance   cookietab-last-shown-time cookietab-consent   These cookies are used to record if a user has accepted the use of cookies on this website   Yes   n/a   Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them. We do not use Cookies to store information such as credit card numbers, telephone numbers, or other information you provide. This Privacy Policy only covers the use of Cookies by us. It does not cover the use of Cookies by any other 3rd-party or advertisers. ACCESSIBILITY Adobe Acrobat is required to view and print PDF documents that appear on this website. To download this program for free, visit the Adobe website. To read PDF documents with a screen reader please link to the Access Adobe website which provides useful tools and resources. Help with changing your settings Your browser already includes a number of ways to change the way our web pages are displayed. Internet Explorer instructions To permanently apply font and colour changes On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options' On the General tab, select 'Accessibility' Click on the three boxes to show ticks Click on 'OK' To enlarge text On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options' On the General tab, select 'Accessibility' Tick the 'Ignore font sizes specified on web pages' check box Click on 'OK' On the browser menu select 'view' Click 'text size' Choose the size of text To change text and background colour On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options' On the General tab, select'Colour' Deselect the 'Use Windows Colours' tick box Select the box next to 'Text' and choose a colour Click on 'OK' Select the box next to 'Background' and choose a colour Click on 'OK' To prevent graphics and images appearing On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options' On the Advanced tab, scroll down to the 'Multimedia' heading Deselect the graphics options 'animations', 'videos', 'pictures' and 'images' by clicking on the boxes to remove the ticks Click on 'Apply' then 'OK' To change the size of the window On the browser View menu select 'Full screen' or press F11 To change the colour of links displayed on a screen. On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options' On the General tab, select 'Accessibility' Click on 'Select ignore colours specified on Web pages' (should contain a tick) Click 'OK' Select 'General' tab and click on 'Colours' Turn off the 'Use hover colours' tick box (should not contain a tick) Select 'Visited' and choose the colour that suits you best, Click OK Select 'Not Visited' and choose the colour that suits you best, Click OK Select 'OK' for 'Colours' Select 'OK' for 'Internet Options' Other options Other options such as removing animation are available: On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options' On the Advanced tab choose any of the options available to improve the visibility of the web pages. Other browsers There are options to change the way pages are displayed on other browsers. Please refer to your browser's help or information section for details. If in doubt please contact us for help. However, to make the most of the accessibility features on this site we recommend the use of Internet Explorer.