What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your hard drive. They recognise when you use your computer to access our website. This helps personalise your visits to our website and so makes it easier for you to carry out your transactions and move between our web pages.
How we use cookies
- Application forms: we use cookies to collect information on the application form when you are filling this in
- Website statistics: We use a third party cookie (set by Nedstat), which tracks the user through the site. The cookie contains a unique session identifier, and contains no personal or private data
- Advertising measurements: we use cookies to record how many people apply for our products based on our advertising campaigns
- Personalisation: we also use cookies to present information to you in the same format as you chose on your last visit.
We cannot and would not identify individuals and only use the consolidated data to help identify improvements to our site and navigation.
Cookies expire after five years, unless you delete them manually.
How to find and control your cookies
Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. If you decide not to receive cookies it may limit your use of our website and services.
Below are the instructions on how to find your cookie settings:
If you're using Netscape 6.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
- Edit
- Preferences
- Click on Advanced
- Click on Cookies
If you're using Internet Explorer 6.0:
- Choose Tools
- Internet Options
- Click the Privacy Tab
- Click on Custom Level
- Click on the 'Advanced' button
- Check the 'override automatic cookie handling' box and select Accept, Block or Prompt for action as appropriate.
If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5:
- Choose Tools
- Internet Options
- Click the Security tab
- Click on Custom Level
- Scroll down to the sixth option to see how cookies are handled by IE5 and change to Accept, Disable, or Prompt for action as appropriate.
For more information about how to find and accept/reject cookies please read your browser help manual.
If you are using a different browser (eg AOL, Firefox, Safari, Opera), or you are using a more recent or an older version of the browsers listed above, please visit AboutCookies.org for further information on managing cookies.
