This website uses cookies to enhance both its performance and user experience.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files which a website may put on your computer or mobile device when you first visit it. The cookie will help the website, or another website, to recognise your device the next time you visit. We use the term “cookies” here to refer to all files that collect store information in this way.
Cookies serve many functions. For example, they can help us to remember your username and preferences, analyse how well our website is performing, or even allow us to recommend content we believe will be most relevant to you.
Certain cookies contain personal information – for example, if you click to “remember me” when logging in, a cookie will store your username. Most cookies won’t collect information that identifies you, and will instead collect more general information such as how users arrive at and use our websites, or a user’s general location.
What sort of cookies does this website use?
Generally, our cookies perform up to four different functions:
1. Essential cookies
Some cookies are essential for the operation of our website. For example, some cookies allow us to identify users that are logged in or not.
2. Performance Cookies
We utilise other cookies to analyse how our visitors use our websites and to monitor website performance. This allows us to provide a high quality experience by customising our offering and quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, we might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular, which method of linking between pages is most effective, and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages. We might also use cookies to highlight content or site services that we think will be of interest to you based on your usage of the website.
3. Functionality Cookies
We use functionality cookies to allow us to remember your preferences. For example, cookies save you the trouble of typing in your username every time you access the site, and recall your customisation preferences.
We also use functionality cookies to provide you with enhanced services such as allowing you to watch a video online or comment on a blog.
4. Behaviourally Targeted Advertising Cookies
This site and our advertisers use cookies to serve you with advertisements that we believe are relevant to you and your interests. For example, if you read a number of articles on motoring on this website or on other sites, a car manufacturer might infer you are interested in this topic and serve you with its car advertisements. You might see these advertisements on this and on other sites that you visit. However, we do not tell our advertisers who you are.
Does anyone else use cookies on this website?
Advertisers sometimes use their own cookies to provide you with targeted advertising, such as Google Adsense. For example, advertisers may use a profile they have built on sites that you have previously visited to present you with more relevant advertisements during your visit to this website. We believe that it is useful to our users to see advertisements that are more relevant to their interests. If you are based in the European Union and would like to learn more about how advertisers use these types of cookies or to choose not to receive them, please visit www.youronlinechoices.eu. If you are based in the United States and would like to learn more, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
We also use or allow third parties to serve cookies that fall into the four categories above. For example, like many companies, we use Google Analytics to help us monitor our website traffic. We may also use third party cookies to help us with market research, revenue tracking, improving site functionality and monitoring compliance with our terms and conditions and copyright policy.
Can a website user block cookies?
Cookies enhance your browsing experience but if you want to disable cookies these links will help you:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Enabling%20and%20disabling%20cookies
http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/
Please remember that if you do choose to disable cookies, you may find that certain sections of our website do not work properly
For more information about cookies try this website www.allaboutcookies.org.