A “cookie” is a small text file sent by a Web server to store in a Web browser so that it can later be read back from that browser. This site uses some unobtrusive cookies to store information on your computer.
Some cookies on this site are essential, and the site won’t work as expected without them. These cookies are set when you submit a form, login or interact with the site by doing something that goes beyond clicking on simple links.
We also use some non-essential cookies to anonymously track visitors or enhance your experience of the site. If you’re not happy with this, we won’t set these cookies but some nice features of the site may be unavailable.
To control third party cookies, you can also adjust your browser settings.
If you wish, you can prevent cookie files from using (non-personal) information about you by either deleting the cookie folder in your browser or by putting your browser’s Privacy setting higher, but doing so will mean that;
You can find out how to make these changes to your browser at this site: www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.
We use analytics providers such as Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect non-identifying information. Google provides some additional privacy options regarding its Analytics cookies at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
If you use the ‘How to Find Us’ option on our website you will use Google Maps to provide detailed information on how to locate our offices. Google Maps stores up to four cookies: khcookie, NID, SNID and PREF. We would use Google’s interactive maps because we believe they provide a helpful way for our visitors to identify how best to travel to us, and on the basis that Google adheres to its privacy policy which can be found at http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/policies/ and its terms of service for Google Maps at http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/help/terms_maps.html.
By using our site you accept the terms of our Privacy Policy.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.
‘Strictly Necessary’ cookies stored when a user visits this website or the blog:
| Cookie Name: | Set By: | Purpose: | More Info: |
|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress_logged_in_* | CIC Wellbeing | These cookies may be used to keep track of the current user’s session – for example to provide specific functionality to certain visitors, such as logged in users. Some parts of the website may not function correctly if these cookies are not stored. | |
| wpe_utmb
wpe_utmb_sess |
CIC Wellbeing | These cookies may be used to keep track of the current user’s session – for example to provide specific functionality to certain visitors, such as logged in users. Some parts of the website may not function correctly if these cookies are not stored. |
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.
‘Performance’ cookies stored when a user visits this website or the blog:
| Cookie Name: | Set By: | Purpose: | More Info: |
|---|---|---|---|
| __utma __utmb __utmc __utmz__utmzz _ga _gid _gat_UA-17364082-1 |
Google Analytics | We use Google Analytics to collect general statistics about website users – such as the number of visitors, most popular pages accessed, typical time spent on the site, broad geographic location of users, details of any errors experienced etc. In turn, this data is used by us to improve the website – e.g. to improve the site navigation or to create new content that is likely to be popular with visitors. | More Info » |
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog.
‘Functionality’ cookies stored when a user visits this website or the blog:
| Cookie Name: | Set By: | Purpose: | More Info: |
|---|---|---|---|
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE use_hitbox PREF (etc) |
YouTube | These cookies are set by youtube.com when you visit a page containing an embedded YouTube video and/or start playing it. | More Info » |
| NID SNID khcookie testcookie PREF (etc) |
Google Maps | This cookie is stored when you visit the ‘Contact Us’ page, which includes an embedded Google Map. | More Info » |
| lsd reg_fb_gate locale datr reg_fb_ref wd (etc) |
These cookies are stored when you visit pages that contain Facebook ‘Like’, ‘Share’ or ‘Send’ buttons, and/or when you decide to Like, Share or Send a page by clicking one of these buttons. Buttons like these are displayed in a number of places on our blog. In addition, the blog uses the Facebook Social Commenting plugin, which may also set these cookies if you view a blog post and/or decide to comment on a post using the Facebook comment box. | More Info » | |
| _twitter_sess k original_referer guest_id (etc) |
These cookies are stored when you visit pages that contain ‘Tweet’ or ‘Follow’ buttons from Twitter, and/or if you decide to click on one of these buttons. Buttons like these are displayed in a number of places on our blog. Cookies may also be stored if you visit a page containing a ‘Recent Tweets’ feed, such as the homepage of our website, and on the right of our blog. | More Info » |