Last updated: 3rd January 2019

Cookie Policy

Our Cookie Policy has been written to explain what information we collect and how this information is used. By continuing to use this website, you consent to the use of cookies unless you disable cookies in your privacy settings.

We’ve made every effort to ensure this Cookie Policy is clear and easy to understand. Any technical terms are explained in this policy.

Information we collect

As you browse this website, our web server collects information about your visit. This site uses Google Analytics cookies to collect information such as:

  • Number of people who visit the website
  • Date and time of visits
  • Number of pages viewed
  • Amount of time spent on the website
  • Which pages are visited
  • Visitor IP addresses
  • Details of which browsers are used to view the website.
What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small piece of text information, stored as a file and placed on your device by a website. Once a cookie is placed on your device, a website can recognise and identify your device, for example, if you visit the site again. The cookies used on this website can be categorised in the following way:
Performance cookies

Performance cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect any information that identifies a visitor. All the information that these cookies collect is anonymous and will only be used to improve how the website works.

Tracking cookies

These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, the material you have downloaded and the links you have followed. Paradigm Norton use the Google Analytics service to report this information. Your IP address is also transmitted to Google Inc. who use it to determine the regional location (e.g. the city/town) from which you visited the website.

These cookies will be used for the purpose of:

  • Site analysis performance. These cookies enable a website to recognise and count the number of visitors to the site, and how users move around the site from one page to another. This information is used to help improve the way a website works for example, by ensuring users are finding what they are looking for in a way that is easy and intuitive.
  • User behaviour – tracking. Behavioural tracking cookies track a user’s behaviour across a number of sites. These are used to display advertisements that are most likely to lead to catching a website user’s attention. Targeted cookies can also identify browsing habits when visiting different websites to understand what a user is interested in, and therefore display adverts that are more likely to interest them.
  • Third party cookies. Cookies are usually set by a website visited by the user – the website address displayed in the URL window – and are solely relevant to use of that website.Third party cookies however are cookies set by a website in order that advertisers can ‘track’ your visits and browsing habits on other third party websites which they also advertise on. Third party cookies can be disabled through your web browser.

These cookies will not compromise the security of your computer. More details can be found in our Privacy Policy. We will use this information to make our website and the information displayed on it more relevant to you.

Links to other websites

This website has links to other websites. We make every effort to link only to sites that share our high standards and respect for privacy. However, we recommend that you check the privacy policy, cookie policy and any relevant website terms of use for the sites you choose to visit as they may be different to this site.

How to block cookies

With most internet browsers, you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. If you want to know how to do this please look at the help menu on your web browser. However, please note that switching off or “opting out” of the use of cookies will mean that you may not be able to use certain features of the website.

Find out more about the use of cookies and how to switch off cookies on ico.org.uk or www.aboutcookies.org