Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
Our cookies help us:
We do not use cookies to:
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.
Granting us permission to use cookies
When you enter our website, we ask your permission for us to use Cookies. By clicking ‘Accept Cookies’ you are consenting to us using Cookies. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
More about our Cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
List of Cookies used on our website
| Name of cookie | Expires | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| _cfduid | 1 year | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. |
| csrftoken | 1 year | Helps prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. |
| _utm | Session | Google Analytics tracking code that logs details about the visitor’s browser and computer. |
| _utma | 2 years | Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics. |
| _utmb | Session | Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the website. Used by Google Analytics. |
| _utmc | Session | Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the website. Used by Google Analytics. |
| _utmt | Session | Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server |
| _utmz | 6 months | Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. Used by Google Analytics. |
| vuid | 2 years | Collects data on the user's visits to the website, such as which pages have been read. |
| ads/ga-audiences | Session | Used by Google Adwords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites. |
| cookieconsent_status | 1 year | Used for the cookie popup banner to remember preferences. |
Third party functions
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
Turning Cookies off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of ours and a large proportion of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so called "spyware". Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.
