This website does not capture or store personal information without your consent, but merely logs a user’s IP address which is automatically recognised by the web server. This is used to record the number of visitors to our site. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, your computer or mobile phone.

These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:

• enabling a service to recognise your device so you don’t have to give the same information several times during one task;
• recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don’t need to do it for every web page requested;
• measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there’s enough capacity to ensure they are fast.

Our use of cookies

If you comment on a blog post , or contact us using an online form, your IP address, name and email address will be stored. This is essential to ensure that anyone wishing to post comments on our site can be identified for legal reasons or that we can contact you to reply to you enquiry. This is a requirement of the WordPress comment system.

Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This to ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast. This information is not collected unless you click “I am happy with this” from the Cookie Control icon in the lower left corner of your screen. The information stored is as follows:

Name: _utma
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 2 years

Name: _utmb
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 30 minutes

Name: _utmc
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: when user exits browser

Name: _utmz
Typical content: randomly generated number + info on how the site was reached (e.g. directly or via a link or search)
Expires: 6 months

For more information about Google Analytics visit Google Analytics website.

Removing and disabling cookies

If you do not wish to accept cookies on to your machine you can disable them by adjusting the settings on your browser. However this will affect the functionality of the websites you visit. This will allow you to revoke your consent to cookies where you have indicated your consent via the Cookie Control icon in the lower left corner this window.

Personal data (i.e. information which could identify you) submitted to us when responding via the Contact or Give Time page, will only be used to respond to your feedback. We will not pass it on to any third party without your consent. Your stated name will be published on this site where you comment on a post.

This statement does not cover links within this website to other websites.