Cookie Notice
INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES
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.
The cookies we use are “analytical” cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site 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. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
ANALYTICS COOKIES
The following cookies are set by Google Analytics:
Name Typical Content Expires
_utma Google Analytics 26 months
_utmb Google Analytics 30 minutes
_utmc Google Analytics when you close your browser
_utmx Google Analytics 26 months
_utmxx Google Analytics 2 years
_utmz Google Analytics 6 months
SOCIAL SITE COOKIES
We use Facebook, Google + and Twitter counters and follow buttons on our site to promote and display how popular our posts and pages are on these social networks. These counters and buttons may drop 3rd party cookies.
If you would like to know more about these cookies you can find further information in the below privacy pages of the individual networks.
Facebook & Twitter (Social Network – 3rd Party Cookie)
Name Typical Content Expires
datr Facebook 2 years
lu Facebook 2 years
_twitter_sess Twitter when you close your browser
Pid Twitter 2 years
guess_id Twitter 2 years
k Twitter 6 days
original_referer Twitter when you close your browser
We have placed cookies on our computer already to help us give the experience you expect. By continuing to use our website, you’re agreeing to our use of cookies. You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
For more information about cookies, please refer to the Information Commissioners’ Office.