INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES
‘Cookies’ are small pieces of information stored on the hard drive of a user’s computer which contain information about the user. The information is used to track a visitor’s use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity.
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 site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
We may store information about your user preferences using cookies which we can access when you visit our website in the future. We do this to help enhance your interaction with our website.
If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies.
You can 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.
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 may include analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
We use the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that may enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
15.1 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.
15.2 Functionality cookies
These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
15.3 Targeting cookies
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Version 1.01 14 March 2018
We use the following cookies on this site:
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Cookie |
Description |
Expiration time |
|---|---|---|
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accept_cookies |
When you visit the site for the first time a message about cookies appears on the screen. If you select ‘Continue’ an acceptance cookie will be stored on your machine, otherwise the message will always appear. Once the cookie is set the message will disappear. |
4 years |
|
PHPSESSID |
Contains an anonymous identifier that can be used by the server to provide a continuous service. |
Session – expires when browser is closed |
|
_ga |
Google Analytics cookie - Used to distinguish users |
2 years |
|
_gid |
Google Analytics cookie - Used to distinguish users |
24 hours |
|
_gat |
Google Analytics cookie - Used to throttle request rate |
1 minute |
|
__atuvc |
Functional cookie for AddThis social sharing widget - Stores an updated page share count |
1 year |
|
__atuvs |
Functional cookie for AddThis social sharing widget |
Session – expires when browser is closed |
|
loc |
Functional cookie for AddThis social sharing widget |
1 year |
|
uvc |
Functional cookie for AddThis social sharing widget |
1 year |