Cookie Policy

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience.

In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store logged in status and provide anonymised data to third party applications like Google Translate and Google Maps. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better however, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser.

Website function cookies

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

  • Remembering an administrator or editor’s logged in status
  • Remembering if we have already asked you certain questions (e.g. you clicked the OK button on the cookie notice)

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

Third party functions cookies

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is the Google Translate cookie which stores the translation preference: it contains translation languages, for example ‘/en/it (English to Italian)’. Our site includes the following which use cookies:

  • Videos (powered by YouTube)
  • Google Maps
  • Google Translate
  • From time to time we may add other embedded content

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.

Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies

You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.