What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files sent by a website’s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.
Essential and non-essential cookies
Cookies can be classified as either ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential’.
Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:
Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to provide additional functionality on our website (‘functional’ cookies), analyse your behaviour on a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies).
Cookies can be classified as either ‘session’ or ‘persistent’, depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser.
Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.
For essential cookies, our legal basis for processing is our legitimate interests in ensuring our site functions properly, and in providing you with the online services you have requested.
For non-essential cookies and other technologies, our legal basis for processing is your consent which you give by selecting your preferences using our cookie control tool.
List of cookies used
|
Name of Cookie
|
Essential or Non-essential? |
Type of cookie |
First or Third party? |
Session or Persistent? |
Expiry Time |
Purpose |
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PHPSESSID |
Essential |
Functional |
First Party |
Session |
After browsing session. |
This is a session ID cookie which is stored to allow the CMS system which renders each page in this website, know which pages it has rendered during your browsing session |
|
_ga |
Non-essential |
Analytical |
Third Party |
Persistent |
2 years |
Google Analytics cookie used to distinguish users on a website to generate statistical information about their use of the website |
|
_gid |
Non-essential |
Analytical |
Third Party |
Persistent |
24 hours |
Google Analytics cookie used to distinguish website visitors. |
|
_gat |
Non-essential |
Analytical |
Third Party |
Persistent |
1 minute |
Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_. |
|
AMP_TOKEN |
Non-essential |
Analytical |
Third Party |
Persistent |
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.
|
|
_gac_ |
Non-essential |
Analytical |
Third Party |
Persistent |
90 days
|
Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out.
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There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies. Some of the main methods of doing so are described below.
You are welcome to block the use of some or all of the cookies we use on our website. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable.
You should also be aware that clearing all cookies from your browser will also delete any cookies that are storing your preferences, for example, whether you have accepted cookies on a website or any cookies that are blocking other cookies.
Accepting or rejecting cookies
Cookie control tool
You can accept or reject non-essential cookies by using our cookie management tool. You will be able to select your preferences with respect to each category of cookie from the tool, which will be visible from every page on our website.
Browser settings
You can accept or reject some or all cookies (for example, blocking all third party cookies) by adjusting your browser settings.
Some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in ‘incognito’ mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your machine and automatically deleting any persistent cookies placed on your device when you finish your browsing session. There are also many third party applications which you can add to your browser to block or manage cookies.
Existing cookies
To clear cookies that have previously been placed on your browser, you should select the option to clear your browsing history and ensure that the option to delete or clear cookies is included when you do so.
This Cookies Policy is based on a template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy. For further information, please visit https://gdprprivacypolicy.org
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