Cookies

We may obtain data about you from cookies. These are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies also enable us to deliver more personalised content.

The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Cookie

Purpose

More Information

Google Analytics cookies:

_utma, _utmb, _utmc,

To record how many people are using the website and how they move
around the site once they have arrived. For more information, see
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We use a third party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard
log information and details of our visitor behaviour patterns. This
involves the use of cookies specific to google Analytics

_utmv, _utmd, _utmz

_utma stores each user’s number of visits and the time of the first,
previous and currant visit

_utmb and _utmb checks how long a visitor stays on the site: when a
visit starts and ends _utmz tracks where a visitor came from (search
engine, search keyword, link) _utmv and _utmd track visitor journeys
through the site and classify them into groups

_utma expires two years after you last visit to this site

_utmb expires 30 minutes after your visit, or 30 minutes of
inactivity

_utmc expires at the end of a session (when you close your
browser)

_utmz expires six months after it was last set

_utmv (not set) expires immediately

_utmd (not set) expires immediately

First Party Cookies

Some are necessary to the functionality of the site, others provide us
with information that we analyse to monitor and improve the site

These first-party cookies do not store or collect any personal
information or anything that could make you personally identifiable to
us. Typically, the cookies generate random number, unique number to
store information about a user, therefore ensuring anonymity

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. Please note that is a few cases some of our website features may not function if you remove cookies from your browser.