INFORMATION ABOUT OUR COOKIE POLICY
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. Overall giving you a better user experience
USING COOKIES AS PART OF OUR COOKIE POLICY
We use cookies for the following reasons:
Essential cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
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. Traffic log cookies identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
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, such as Google, for this purpose.
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. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use as part of our cookie policy and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
|
Cookie |
Name |
Purpose |
Expiry |
|
Analytical |
_ga |
Generates data in relation to visitors to the web site |
2 Years |
|
Analytical |
_gat |
Used by Google analytics to throttle request rate |
Immediate on leaving site |
|
Analytical |
_gid |
Generates data in relation to visitors to the web site |
Immediate on leaving site |
|
Marketing |
collect |
Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. |
Immediate on leaving site |
|
Marketing |
r/collect |
Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads through Google. |
Immediate on leaving 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 are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
How to Control Cookies:
You can block non-essential 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.
What happens if I say ‘no’ to allowing non-essential cookies in my browser?
The website will still work and you will be able to get the information you need from the site but some functions may not work or work as well as they would with cookies.
What is the impact for us?
We use Analytical Cookies to count the number of people who use the site and to analyse how they use it. We do this to make sure that our sites are as good as they can be and this is the primary evidence we use when trying to improve what we offer to users.
If you decline cookies then your site usage won’t be counted and measured in this way so we won’t be able to take your actions into account when analyse data and seeking to improve our service based on that analysis.
For further information, see our Privacy Policy
For further details, see aboutcookies.org
