Cookies

Cookies are small files that ask permission to be placed on your computer hard drive. They allow websites to respond to you as an individual. Among the main ones used on this website are:

Google Analytics: These 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. They collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Read Google Privacy to find out more.

You can opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites by making use of the Google Analytics opt-out tool. Specifically: _utma, _utmb, _utmc ,_utmz

The content management system: We use a WordPress content management system for this site. To find out more please read the article linked here on the WordPress website.

We sometimes embed photos and video content from websites such as YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, etc. As a result, when you visit a page with embedded content from one of these sites, you may be presented with their own cookies.

You may choose to accept or decline cookies, though choosing to decline them may limit the full experience of our website.

Disabling cookies in popular desktop browsers

Firefox version 3.5 or later

  • In the “Tools” menu, select “Options”

    Under the “Firefox will:” dropdown, select “Use custom settings for history”

    Uncheck the “Accept Cookies from Sites” box to block them all, or

    Click the “Exceptions” button to enter specific websites that you wish to allow/disallow to set cookies

Internet Explorer version 6 or later

  • In the “Tools” menu, select “Internet Options”

    Click the “Privacy” tab

    Move the “Settings” slider up or down to adjust your cookie acceptance settings (moving the slider all the way to the top will block all cookies) Or

    Click the “Sites” button to enter specific websites that you wish to allow/disallow to set cookies

 

Safari version 4 or later

  • Click the geared wheel icon in the top right of your browser window.

    Select “Preferences”

    Select the “Security” tab

    Under “Accept Cookies:”, click the “Never” option to block all cookies

 

Chrome version 4 or later

  • Click the wrench icon in the top right of your browser window

    Select “Options”

    Click the “Under the Hood” tab

    Click the “Content Settings” button

    Click the option to “Block sites from setting any data” to block all cookies Or

    Click the “Exceptions” button to enter specific websites that you wish to allow/disallow to set cookies

Links to other websites

The website may contain links to other websites of interest. We cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such sites and they are not governed by our privacy policy.