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Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
We use the following cookies on our website:
Google Analytics
Google Analytics provides anonymous statistics on website usage. Cookies are used to track the source of a visitor, their session on the website (to associate multiple page views to one visit) and whether they are a new or returning visitor.
| Cookie name | Description | Type/Length |
| __utmb __utmc |
Determining Visitor Session Contains a unique visitor identifier |
30 minutes from set/update |
| __utma | Identifying Unique Visitors Contains a unique visitor identifier |
2 years from set/update |
| __utmz | Tracking Traffic Sources & Navigation Contains traffic source and information about referring keyword or website |
6 months from set/update |
| _gat | Throttling request rate | 10 minutes from set/update |
| _ga | Visitor Identification | 2 years from set/update |
| _gid | User Journey | 24 hours from set/update |
PHP Session ID
A PHP session is created when certain functionality is in use on the website, allowing the website to uniquely identify one user between page loads. This is essential for the website’s operation, and is used for facilities such as logins to the content management system and load balancing.
| Cookie name | Description | Type/Length |
| PHPSESSID | Contains an anonymous identifier that can be used by the server to provide a continuous service. | Expires when the browser is closed |
GDPR Consent
| Cookie name | Description | Type/Length |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary
cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary |
It records the default button state of the corresponding category. These cookies do not store any personal information. | 1 year from set/update |
| viewed_cookie_policy | The primary cookie that records the user consent for the usage of the cookies upon ‘accept’ and ‘reject.’ It does not track any personal data and is set only upon user action (accept/reject). | 1 year from set/update |
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The following links provide details on how to do this in a range of popular web browsers:
Cookie settings in Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies
Cookie settings in Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Cookies
Cookie settings in Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647
Cookie settings in Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.