Information about our use of cookies
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.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard disk of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
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 enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
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.
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).
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.
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 are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You 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.
Our Use of Essential Cookies
Essential cookies enable basic functions and are necessary for the proper function of the website.
Name | Purpose | Expires |
wp_consent_preferences | This is used to store the user’s cookie consent preferences | 30 days |
Our Use of Google Analytics
Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics software (Universal Analytics) to collect information about how you use our website. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements, for example displaying links to the most frequently accessed content on our homepage.
Google Analytics stores information about:
The pages you visit on websites.
How long you spend on each of our webpages.
How you got to the site.
What you click on while you’re visiting the site.
We do not collect or store your personal information (for example your name or address) so our collected cookie information can’t be used to identify who you are.
We do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
Google Analytics sets the following cookies:
Name | Purpose | Expires |
_ga | ID used to identify users | 2 years |
_gid | ID used to identify users for 24 hours after last activity | 24 hours |
_gat | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager | 1 minute |
_ga_ | ID used to identify users | 2 years |
_gac_ | Contains information related to marketing campaigns of the user. These are shared with Google AdWords / Google Ads when the Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts are linked together. | 90 days |
_gali | Used by Google Analytics to determine which links on a page are being clicked | 30 seconds |
_utmv | Contains custom information set by the web developer via the _setCustomVar method in Google Analytics. This cookie is updated every time new data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 2 years after last activity |
_utmx | Used to determine whether a user is included in an A / B or Multivariate test. | 18 months |
_utmt | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests | 10 minutes |
_utmb | Used to distinguish new sessions and visits. This cookie is set when the GA.js javascript library is loaded and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 30 minutes after last activity |
_utmc | Used only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics and not with GA.js. Was used to distinguish between new sessions and visits at the end of a session. | End of browser session |
_utmz | Contains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed user to the website. The cookie is set when the GA.js javascript is loaded and updated when data is sent to the Google Anaytics server | 6 months after last activity |
_utma | ID used to identify users and sessions | 2 years after last activity |
You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies.
Our use of reCAPTCHA Cookies
Google reCAPTCHA helps protect websites from spam and abuse by verifying user interactions through challenges.
Name | Purpose | Expires |
_GRECAPTCHA | Google reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis | 179 days |
