Like most modern web sites, this one uses ‘cookies’.

What are cookies?

‘Cookies’ are small text files that are stored by the browser on your computer or mobile phone. They allow websites to store things like user preferences.

You can think of cookies as providing a ‘memory’ for the website, so it can recognise you when you come back.

How do we use cookies?

The main sort of cookies used by our site are created by Google Analytics. These cookies tell us whether or not the site has been visited before by your browser.

We use Google Analytics because we want to know how many people visit our site, how often they visit and what they’re most interested in. We want to know because it helps us make changes to the site so more people visit. We want more people to visit so more people come to see our shows and become involved in them.

Google Analytics cookies are anonymous, so we can’t use them to track what specific people are doing on our site. We use them to gather general statistics, such as the number of visits to a page.

Other organisations might set their own anonymous cookies. They do this to track the success of their application, or to customise the application for you. For example, when you share an article using a social-media sharing button, the social network that has created the button will record that you have done this. Because of how cookies work, our website cannot access these cookies, and the other organisation can’t access the data in cookies we use on our website.

We use MailChimp to keep in touch with our members and supporters. MailChimp might create a cookie so our website knows if you are subscribed to email updates or not.

We don’t use any cookies for advertising yet. If we do, we will update this page.

How do I turn cookies off?

It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website.

All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links might be helpful, or use the ‘Help’ option in your browser.

Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
Cookie settings in Firefox
Cookie settings in Chrome
Cookie settings in Safari web and iOS.