| Cookies We may use 'cookies' to monitor how people use our site. This helps us to understand how our customers and potential customers use our web site so we can develop and improve the design, layout and function of the sites.
A cookie is a piece of information that is stored on your computer's hard drive, which records how you have used a web site. This means that when you go back to that web site, it can give you tailored options based on the information it has stored about your last visit. You can normally alter the settings of your browser to prevent it from accepting cookies.
If you do not want us to use cookies in your browser, you can set your browser to reject cookies or to tell you when a web site tries to put a cookie on your computer. However, you may not be able to use some of the products or services on our web site without cookies.
Turning Off Cookies in Different Browsers
Internet Explorer 5.0
- From your browser menu, select 'Tools'.
- Then select 'Internet Options'. This will bring up the 'Internet Options' Dialogue Box.
- On the top of the dialogue box, select 'Security', then 'Custom Level'. This will bring up the 'Security Settings' box.
- Scroll down using the scroll bar on the right hand side of the box, until you come to the section carrying the title 'allow cookies to be stored on your computer'.
- Of the options available, select 'Disable', and then select the 'OK' button on the bottom of the menu box.
Internet Explorer 6.0
- From your browser menu, select 'Tools', and then 'Internet Options'. This will bring up the 'Internet Options' Dialogue Box.
- On the top of the dialogue box, select 'Privacy'. This will bring up the 'Privacy Settings' box.
- On the Privacy tab, move the slider up for a higher level of privacy or down for a lower level of privacy.
- Move the slider to the top to block cookies from all web sites.
Following these instructions will stop your computer from accepting cookies in future. You may reconfigure your computer to accept cookies again by following these instructions, but by selecting 'Enable', and the 'OK' button on the bottom of the menu box (Internet Explorer 5.0); or by selecting on 'Default' button (Internet Explorer 6.0).
Netscape 4.7
- First, on your top menu, select 'Edit', and then 'Preferences'. This will bring up the 'Preferences' menu box.
- From the options on the left-hand side, select 'Advanced', which will bring up another menu.
- Halfway down, you will see a section on cookies, and if you wish to turn cookies off, you should select 'Disable', and then the 'OK' button on the bottom of the menu box.
You may reconfigure your computer to accept cookies again by following these instructions, but by selecting 'Accept All Cookies', and then selecting the 'OK' button on the bottom of the menu box.
Netscape 6.0
- First, on your top menu, select 'Tasks', and then 'Privacy & Security'.
- From here you have the option to 'block cookies from this site', 'unblock cookies from this site' or view and remove and prevent cookies from being reaccepted from selected sites.
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