Cookie Policy
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 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
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 should check the third party privacy policies on their websites if you have any concerns.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
|
Cookie |
Name |
Purpose |
Information |
Expires |
|
_ga |
Analytics tracking |
Used to distinguish users. |
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
2 Years |
|
_gat |
Analytics tracking |
Used to throttle request rate. |
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
1 Minute |
|
_gid |
Analytics tracking |
Used to distinguish users. |
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
|
24 Hours |
|
lang |
Functionality |
In most cases it will likely be used to store language preferences, potentially to serve up content in the stored language. |
https://cookiepedia.co.uk/cookies/lang
|
Session |
|
*_cp |
Cookie Policy |
Used as a flag to acknowledge that the user has accepted the cookie terms and conditions. |
N/A |
83 Years |
|
NID, 1P_Jar |
Preferences |
The NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on. |
6 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.