Cookies

Use of Cookies

Cookies are small files saved on your phone, tablet or computer when you visit a website.

We use cookies to make the website work and collect information about how you use our services.

Strictly necessary cookies

These essential cookies do things like remember your cookie consenting options. They always need to be on.

Name: cookie_consent_level
Purpose: remembering your cookie consenting choices 
Duration: 1 year
 
Name: _Host-session
Purpose: User will be logged out of the session after 2 hours of inactivity
Duration: 2 hours

Analytics cookies (optional)

We use Google Analytics to understand how people use our website, the number of visitors to the website, where how visitors arrive to our website, the pages they visited and how they interact with the content of those pages. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements.

We do not collect or store any personal information (for example your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.

Name: _ga*:
Purpose: calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. 
Duration: Expires after 2 years.

Name: _ga:
Purpose: helps GA4 distinguish between unique users and sessions, enabling accurate analytics reporting.
Duration: Expires after 2 years.

Name: _gid:
Purpose:  stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that 
are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.
Duration: Expires after 24 hours.

Name: _gat:
Purpose: to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites.
Duration: 1 minute
 

Please be aware that any external sites that we link to may be using cookies.

 

How do I change my cookie settings?

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the Cookie icon Open cookie settings at the bottom left of your screen. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then clicking ‘Save my preferences’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Please be aware that certain functions on our site will not work, or will only partially work if all cookies are blocked.