Cookie Policy
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
- Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose, for example Google Analytics.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Essential Cookies:
| Name | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| _GRECAPTCHA | Essential Google ReCapture cookie Google reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis. |
6 months |
| __cf_bm | Essential vimeo cookie Vimeo uses the cf_bm cookie, which is part of Cloudflare's Bot Management service and helps mitigate risk associated with spam and bot traffic. |
30 minutes |
| vuid | Essential vimeo cookie These cookies are used by the Vimeo video player on websites. |
1 year 1 month |
Non-essential cookies:
| Name | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| _gid | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews. |
1 day |
| _gat_UA-123198673-2 | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. The pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It is a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. |
55 seconds |
| _ga_NXNY9F88B0 | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. |
1 year 1 month |
| _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. |
1 year 1 month |
| [abcdef0123456789]{32} | Google Analytics tracking cookie |
Session |
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies.
