Cookie policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone or other devices when you access the internet.

Why are cookies essential to our website?

This website, along with many others, uses cookies. The reason we use cookies is to help us understand how this website is being used.

The cookies we use do not capture any personal information and they cannot be used by us to identify you.

To give you the very best browsing experience, the cookie settings on this website are set to allow all cookies. If you continue to browse this site without changing these settings, you consent to this. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. If cookies are disabled, we cannot assure you that the website and your experience of it will be as we intended it to be.

Types of cookies

There are two types of cookie used on our site: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are temporary files used to store information for your current browser session, and are deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies are files that are saved on your computer and contain information that can be read by the site when you return, and are used to manage your user experience, or provide anonymous statistical analysis relating to your visits. Details of all our cookies are shown below. None of the cookies store any personal information that could be used to identify you.

All the cookies are 1st party cookies – this means they are set and used only by our website. No 3rd party cookies (cookies from an external source, typically used to track advertising) are used on our site.

Tracking cookies

We use Google Analytics to monitor traffic on our site. When you visit our site the Google Analytics program sets certain cookies that record statistical information about your visits to the site, and we are required by law to identify these cookies to you and how they are used. These cookies do not store any personal information that could be used to identify you.

The information collected by Google Analytics is as follows:

· Audience related data, including the city and country of origin, language preference, frequency of visits, all a visitor’s activity during a single session, operating system, service provider and device used to access the website.

· Traffic source data, including the ways visitors arrive at our website (for example search engines, referrals from other sites, marketing campaigns, and social media), keyword visitors entered into a search engine which brought them to our website, and the landing and exit page used by which a visitor enters and leaves our website.

· Content related data, including measuring user visits and page views to determine the site’s most popular content. Technical performance of the site as measured by such elements as average time taken to load a page and server speed, and technical performance broken down further by country and web browser.

· The information generated by cookies about your use of this website (including your IP address, truncated to ensure your anonymity) is transmitted to Google. This information is used to compile statistical reports on the website’s activities and enhance the user online experience. If you like to know more about IP Anonymisation in Analytics by Google, please visit
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en&ref_topic=2919631.

· For more information on Google’s privacy policy please visit http://www.google.com/intl/en-ALL/policies/privacy/.

These cookies used by Google analytics are as follows:

Cookie Name	Expiration Time	Description
_ga	2 years	Used to distinguish users.
_gid	24 hours	Used to distinguish users.
_gat	1 minute	Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>.
AMP_TOKEN	30 seconds to 1 year	Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service.
__utma	2 years from set/update	Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
__utmt	10 minutes	Used to throttle request rate.
__utmb	30 mins from set/update	Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
__utmz	6 months from set/update	Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
__utmv	2 years from set/update	Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

If you would like to delete or enable any of these cookies then please see the ‘How do I disable / enable cookies?’ section below.

Consent

By using our website, you're consenting to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time through your browser.

How do I disable / enable cookies?

You can manage your cookies within your browser settings however turning these off may impact your experience on our website.

Detailed guidance on deleting or controlling cookies is available at www.AboutCookies.org.

Those wishing to opt out of Google Analytics data collection should use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).

Additional useful information about cookies

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org, or www.aboutcookies.org.

Browser manufacturers also provide help pages relating to cookie management. These pages can be found in their respective products help pages and are usually accessed using the F1 help button.