Cookies Policy
We display a message on our site to notify you that our website makes use of "cookies". Within this notice you can choose to accept our use of cookies or decline them to prevent non-essential cookies being set.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data, often including a unique identifier, sent to the web browser of your device. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it.
To protect your privacy, your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, and not the cookies sent to you by other websites. Many websites do this whenever a user visits them, for example to track online traffic flows.
Cookies we use, and why
Accepting our use of cookies assists us to analyse anonymous website traffic statistics, for example how a visitor found our website, how long they stayed here etc.
We use "Session" and "Performance" cookies:
- Session: temporary cookie that anonymously identifies a unique visit to the website for functionality purposes such as helping web pages load faster and improving navigation.
- Performance: used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
The cookies we use on our site are set by the website itself, and by Google where we have integrated a Google service such as Analytics or reCAPTCHA.
This site will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you.
| Cookie | Type | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Randomised letters / numbers | Session | Temporary anonymous idnetifier of your visit to our website for functionality purposes e.g. saving preferences. | Session (until you leave this website) |
| cookieconsent_status | Performance | Cookie set to indicate that you have accepted cookies from our website. | 30 days |
| __utma | Performance | Set by Google Analytics to distinguish users and sessions. Created when the JavaScript library executes and there are no existing __utma cookies. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 2 years |
| __utmc | Performance | Set by Google Analytics and is deleted when you close your browser. It is used to enable interoperability with urchin.js version of Google Analytics and is used in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine new sessions/visits. | Session (until you leave this website) |
| __utmz | Performance | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store the traffic source or campaign by which the visitor reached the site. | 6 months |
| __utmt | Performance | Google Analytics sets this cookie to inhibit request rate. | 10 minutes |
| __utmb | Performance | Google Analytics sets this cookie, to determine new sessions/visits. __utmb cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there are no existing __utma cookies. It is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 30 minutes |
(Google's privacy policy is available at: https://www.1d5920f4b44b27a802bd77c4f0536f5a-gdprlock/privacypolicy.html)
How to delete cookies or control them
Our cookie notification banner allows you to prevent non-essential cookies from being set from our website unless you accept them.
You can also use your browser settings to restrict or block cookies set by this or any other website. Each browser is different, so please check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this for a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to clear cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to do this on your mobile phone's browser, you will need to refer to your handset manual.