Cookie Policy

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. By continuing to browse the website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

To enhance your experience on our website, some of our web pages may use “cookies.” Cookies are text files that we place in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personally-identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering for one of our services. However, once you choose to furnish the site with your personally-identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.

We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our sites. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at our web pages (e.g., to recognise you by name when you return to our site), save your username and/or password in password-protected areas, and to offer you products, programmes, or services.

We use Analytical/performance cookies. They 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.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Name	Cookie Type	Default Expiration Time	Purpose	More Information
__utma	Third party performance cookie	2 years from set/update	This cookie tracks the number of times a user visits our site, when their first & last visits were.	Click here for more privacy information
__utmb	Third party performance cookie	30 mins from set/update	This cookie makes a timestamp of when you land on the site, to begin the session.	Click here for more privacy information
__utmc	Third party performance cookie	End of browser session	This cookie makes a timestamp after the user has not interacted with the site for more than 30 minutes to signal the end of a session as there is no way of knowing when a user leaves the site or closes the browser	Click here for more privacy information
__utmz	Third party performance cookie	6 months from set/update	When visitors reach our site via a search engine result, direct link or advertisement; this cookie stores that referral information.	Click here for more privacy information

 

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting 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.

More information about cookies, including how to block them or delete them, can be found at AboutCookies.org.