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We use cookies at primarily three levels, the first is cookies which are required to make the website work. These enable us to provide a reliable website that scales up based on the demand being placed on it by users or our information, we call these cookie 'Essential'.
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You will have the choice to reject our Performance or Functional cookies or indeed both. Under these circumstances we have tried to ensure the site is still as useful as possible to you, but there may be some mild restrictions on what we can achieve without them.
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