What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also explain how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however be warned that these actions may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of our sites functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for the variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave all cookies enabled if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you will want to use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser ‘Help’ menu item to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in you also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
Forms related cookies
When you submit data via a form such as those found on our booking pages or enquiry forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Site preferences cookies
In order to provide you with a great user experience we set preferences for the way this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be retrieved whenever you interact with a page that responds to your preferences.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties such as Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution 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.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site to allow you to connect with social networks such as Instagram.
Incognito Mode
The Google Chrome browser supports private browsing with its ‘Incognito Mode’. You can browse in Incognito Mode when you don’t want your site visits or downloads to remain in your browsing and download histories. Once you close all your Incognito browsing windows, Chrome won’t save your browsing history, cookies, and other data.
Browsing this site in Incognito Mode may make it less functional but shouldn’t prevent it from working.
General
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned, if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.
However if you are still looking for more information then we suggest you consult the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers. Alternatively you can contact us through one of the contact methods listed on this website
