COOKIE POLICY
This policy contains 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. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive 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: These 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.
The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
| Cookie | Category | Name | Purpose | Expires After |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dynserv | Strictly Necessary | DYNSERV | Used for load balancing to manage traffic demand on the host server. | End of browsing session |
| Cookie Notice | Strictly Necessary | Cookie_notice _accepted | Used to confirm that the website visitor has accepted the cookie policy and the cookie notice popup does not need to be shown. | 3 months |
| Typekit / Font Awesome | Strictly Necessary | p.gif | Used to check that an online font service is working correctly and being used compliantly. | End of browsing session |
| Universal Analytics (Google) | Statistics | _ga _gat _gid _dc_gtm_ | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. Read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data. | 24 months |
| Doubleclick (Google) | Marketing | DSID IDE id r/collect | Used to personalise online ads based on past actions of our online customers. | 24 months |
| Google AdWords | Marketing | collect ads/ga-audiences | Used to personalise online ads based on past actions of our online customers. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | End of browsing session |
| Bing (Microsoft) | Marketing | MUID MUIDB _uetsid | This cookie is an analytics service that connects data from the Bing advertising network with actions performed on the website. Read Microsoft’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data. | 24 months |
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.
