What are cookies?

Cookies are files saved on your phone, tablet, or computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

The information stored in cookies is used to make websites work or contains things about how you use the website. For example, that you have acknowledged a pop-up or the pages you visit.

Cookies are not viruses or computer programs. They are very small, so they do not take up much space.

This statement refers to ‘cookies’ but covers similar browser storage technologies, such as HTML local storage.

How we use cookies

We use cookies to:

• make our website work, for example by keeping it secure
• remember your preferences, for example which pop-ups or banners you have seen
• measure how you use our website, for example which links you click on.