Information about our use of cookies

We use cookies to track site usage and trends, improve the quality of content and give you the best online experience during your visit to our website.

Cookies are small information files that are stored on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or other device that help websites recognise you and record information about your visit. Cookies can help to display the information on a website in a way that matches your interests and is relevant to you. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer, or any personal information about you, they are simply a record of your visit to our website. By using our website you agree to our use of cookies in accordance with this cookie policy.

The cookies we use on this website are broadly grouped into the following categories:

Essential: Some of the cookies on our website are essential for us to be able to provide you with a service you have requested.

Analytics: We use analytics cookies to help us understand how users engage with our website. Without this cookie, we would find it difficult to analyse how well our website was performing and improve it without these cookies, we feel that it is vital to monitor these user statistics to enable us to provide the most relevant and useful content to you. These cookies do not let us identify specific users as the information is aggregated.

Social sharing: We use cookies to allow you to share content directly to your social networking sites for example LinkedIn and Twitter i.e. clicking Share on Twitter.

Interest-based advertising: You may have noticed that when you visit websites, you will be shown adverts for products and services you may be interested in. Content Formula places adverts on a range of external websites which we hope to be relevant to you based on the types of things that interest you. These and the other cookies we use do NOT allow us to see what other sites you have been visiting, they simply act as a record of our web pages and adverts that you may see.

How can I reject or opt out of receiving cookies?

When you first visited this website you will have been shown a status bar notifying you that this website uses cookies and inviting you to review this cookie policy. Once you have clicked to go further into our website, the cookie prompt will disappear, this confirms that you consent to us using the cookies detailed in this policy. Please note that we can’t always control third party cookies (such as from social networks) stored on your machine from our website and where this is the case you will need to visit the relevant third party’s website directly to understand their cookies stored on your machine by them. Please see our ‘third party cookies’ section below.

If you want to reject cookies we use from this website you will need to:

Delete the cookies from your browser. Most browsers also allow you to prevent all or some cookies being stored on your machine in the future. For more information on how to delete or disable cookies from your browser please use the ‘help’ function within your browser, or alternatively visit www.allaboutcookies.org. By deleting our cookie preference cookie, the next time you visit our website the cookie status bar will appear again inviting you to again reconsider your preferences. And/or If you only want to reject the Internet Based Advertising cookies we store on your machine, you can opt-out of receiving these cookies at any time by going to the Internet Advertising Bureau website at http://www.youronlinechoices.com and following the opt-out instructions.

Third Party Cookies:

Some of the cookies described above are stored on your machine by third parties when you use our website. We have no control over these cookies of how the third party uses them. They are used to allow that third party to provide a service to us, for example website analytics. For more information on these cookies and how to disable them, please see: Internet Advertising Bureau website at http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ where you will be able to opt-out of receiving Internet Based Advertising cookies from some of the third parties (e.g. Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc)