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The personal data you share with us e.g. your name and email address when you subscribe to our newsletter will be treated in the following ways:

  1. We will keep your data no longer than is necessary.
  2. We will use your data only for the purpose for which you gave it.
  3. We may use information for statistical analysis but in such a way that your identity will not be involved.
  4. We will hold your data securely.
  5. All our newsletters’ will include an unsubscribe option.
  6. All our newsletters’ will include a link to our Privacy policy.

You will not receive unsolicited post or email from us unless we explicitly ask for and get your permission. We will not pass on your email address or any of your personal details to other organisations.

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How we use Cookies

This site uses two types of cookies:

Site performance cookies
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However, you may receive other third party cookies, by interacting with parts of the site which share functionality with third parties. For example, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media networks.

Site performance cookies

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Anonymous analytics cookies

Every time a user visits our website, web analytics software provided by a third party generates an anonymous analytics cookie.

These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies, and if you don’t, we generate new ones. This allows us to track how many individual unique users we have, and how often they visit the site.

These cookies cannot be used to identify individuals; they are used for statistical purposes only.

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