Like many websites, when you visit our website in order to deliver a full browsing experience a small amount of information, known as a “cookie” will be downloaded to your device, (e.g.: your computer, laptop, tablet or mobile phone). These cookies cannot be used to identify you personally.
These cookies are used to improve your browsing experience by, for example:
- enabling a website to recognise your device so you do not have to give the same information several times during one task or browsing sessions
- recognising if you have given a username and password so you do not need to do it for every web page you visit
- analysing anonymous data to help us understand how visitors interact with the website so we can make improvements and develop the website in an informed way for our visitors.
If you would like to learn how to manage and remove cookies from your device please visit the following website: http://www.aboutcookies.org
Cookies we use on this website:
– Web analytics/metrics
This category comprises cookies used to evaluate site performance in terms of number of visits, unique visitors, drop-off rate for transactions, and so on:
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Purpose: Google Analytics cookie to track the number of times you access the site
Typical content: Randomly generated number
Expires: 2 years
Name: __utmb
Purpose: Google Analytics cookie to timestamp the exact time that you access the site
Typical content: Randomly generated number
Expires: 30 minutes
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Purpose: Google Analytics cookie to timestamp the exact time that you leave the site
Typical content: Randomly generated number
Expires: When user exits browser
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Purpose: Google Analytics cookie that keeps track of how you got to the site
Typical content: Randomly generated number and information on how the site was reached
Expires: 6 months
– JavaScript detection
These cookies are used to “remember” whether users’ terminals support the use of JavaScript. This facilitates an enhanced user experience as JavaScript-enhanced features can be made available to users:
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Purpose: This cookie is to make sure the user sees the updated count if they share a page and return to it before the share count cache is updated.
Typical content: Sequence of numbers
Expires: 2 years
Third-party cookies
We use third party suppliers and their services on this website, which may also use cookies as detailed below:
– Cookies for improving service
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this website. We do this to make sure it is meeting our users’ needs and to understand how we could improve the overall user experience.
Google Analytics stores information about which pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. We do not collect or store your personal information (for example, your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are. We do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
For detailed information about cookies used by Google Analytics on this site please view the above ‘Web analytics/metrics’ section, or for further information please visit https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html
How to control and delete cookies
We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you.
However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our website, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your web browser settings. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how to do this.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit the following website: https://www.aboutcookies.org
This website contains detailed information on how to manage cookies across a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your device, as well as more general information about cookies.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may have an impact on the functionality of our website.
If you have any questions about our cookie policy please contact us.
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