Unless otherwise stated, this web site does not automatically store or capture personal information.

The system will record your e-mail address and other information only if volunteered to us by you. This shall be treated as proprietary and confidential.

Cookies

We want to make this website easy, useful and reliable, this can sometimes involve placing small amounts of information on your computer. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.

These pieces of information enable us to offer a better website experience and are not for advertising purposes.

You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them through “Internet browser cookies – what they are and how to manage them”. You can even turn the cookies off, although doing so may negatively effect your experience on the site.

This site uses both first and third party cookies. First Party cookies are controlled by this site and are primarily used to help the content management system work effectively. Third party cookies are used by other companies such as Google in their Google Map or Google+ ‘Like’ Button or Facebook and other services ‘Like’ buttons as part of the Sharethis social media widget which are used when you decide to share content from this site on various social media platforms.

Our use of cookies

Currently we use cookies for the following:

First Party Cookies

Name: PHPSESSID
Purpose: Used by WordPress to identify a specific user session. Expires at the end of the session.

Name: wordpress_logged_in_RANDOMHASH
Purpose: Used by WordPress to tell if a user is logged in. Expires at the end of the session.

Name: wordpress_test_cookie
Purpose: Used by WordPress to establish if your browser can accept cookies. Expires at the end of the session.

Name: wordpress_HASH
Purpose: Required by WordPress when a user is logged in. Expires at the end of the session.

Name: wp-settings-1
Purpose: Required by WordPress when a user is logged in. Expires in one year.

Name: wp-settings-time-1
Purpose: Required by WordPress when a user is logged in. Expires in one year.

Third Party Cookies

Name: __stid
Purpose: This cookie is used by the third party social media widget, Sharethis. They allow you to share any articles on our site via your favorite social network. Expires in one year.

Name: __uset
Purpose: This cookie is used by the third party social media widget, Sharethis. They allow you to share any articles on our site via your favorite social network. Expires in three hours.

Name: NID
Purpose: Cookie used by Google to store user preferences and information when viewing pages with Google maps and Google+ on them. So for this site that would be pages with the Sharethis buttons and the directions page. Expires in six months.

Name: PREF
Purpose: Cookie used by Google to store user preferences and information when viewing pages with Google maps and Google+ on them. So for this site that would be pages with the Sharethis buttons and the directions page. Expires in two years.

We will try to keep this list of cookies up to date but it may become out of date if third parties update the cookies they use.