In common with many other website operators, we may use standard technology called ‘cookies’ on NCB websites. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive and they are used to record how you navigate NCB websites on each visit.

Our cookies are used to enable us to develop NCB websites and to enable you to properly navigate them.  We use cookies to collect personal data to enable us to reflect our users’ interests and by noting who has seen which pages, properties and advertisements (including ‘click throughs’ from emails), how frequently particular pages are visited and to enable us to determine the most popular areas of NCB websites. We may use cookies to enrich your experience of using NCB websites by allowing us to tailor what you see to what we have learned about your preferences during your visits to our sites.  Sometimes we may use services of third parties and they may use cookies on our behalf in order to provide their services.

The cookies we use can be found in the Cookie Notice on each of the NCB websites that you visit.  You will see these as a ‘pop-up’ the first time you use the website and again if you use our website after having deleted our cookies for that website.

Preventing use of cookies

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent cookies being stored.  With experience, you can usually choose to switch off all cookies or to allow only certain ‘trusted’ sites to place cookies.

For further information on cookies and Flash cookies and how to switch them off see the Information Commissioner’s website at www.ico.gov.uk or visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.aboutcookies.org.

PLEASE NOTE, IF YOU DO TURN COOKIES OFF, THIS WILL LIMIT THE SERVICE THAT WE ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE TO YOU AND MAY AFFECT YOUR USER EXPERIENCE.