Cookie Policy
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience.
In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store logged-in status, and provide anonymised data to third party applications like Google Translate and Google Maps. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better however, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser.
Website function cookies
Our own cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Remembering an administrator or editors logged-in status
- Remembering if we have already asked you certain questions (e.g. you clicked the OK button on the cookie notice)
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Third party functions cookies
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is the Google Translate cookie which stores the translation preference: it contains translation languages, for example ‘/en/it (English to Italian)’. Our site includes the following which use cookies:
- Google Analytics
- Google Maps
- Google Translate
- From time to time, we may add other embedded content to support additional functionality.
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.
Google Analytics
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. Google stores the information collected by the cookie on servers in the United States. Google may also 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 will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using our website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
See Google’s Privacy Policy webpage for more information www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, please refer to the official guide to Google Analytics cookie usage on websites.
Turning cookies off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop if from accepting cookies. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers. However, because cookies are a standard part of most modern websites, switching cookies off will likely limit the functionality of our website and a large proportion of other websites too.