COOKIE POLICY

Information about our use of cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded onto ‘terminal equipment’ (eg a computer or smartphone) when the user accesses a website. It allows the website to recognise that user’s device and store some information about the user’s preferences or past actions.

We use only analytical cookies. These enable us to recognise and count the number of visitors that visit our site and how they move around our website. This helps to improve the way our website works by ensuring that viewers are finding the information they are looking for.

Here’s more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them:

Functional and Required Cookies
These are necessary cookies that allow visitors to navigate and use key features on our site.

• Name: Crumb
  Duration: Session
  Purpose: Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF)*

*CSRF is an attack vector that tricks a browser into taking unwanted action in an application when someone’s logged in.

• ss_cookieAllowed
  Duration: 30 days
  Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing Analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies

Analytics and Performance Cookies
We use Analytics and Performance cookies to collect information on how visitors interact with our site.

• Name: test
  Duration: session
  Purpose: Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors.

• Name: ss_cvisit
  Duration: 30 minutes
  Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

• Name: ss_cvr
  Duration: 2 years
  Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

• Name: ss_cid
  Duration: 2 years
  Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

• Name: ss_cvt
  Duration: 30 minutes
  Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

• Name: ss_cpvisit
  Duration: 2 years
  Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

• _ga
  Duration: 2 years
  Google Analytics. Used to distinguish users

• _gid
  Duration: 24 hours
  Used to distinguish users

• _gat
  Duration: 1 minute
  Used to throttle request rate.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. You can block cookies by changing the settings on your browser enabling you to refuse the setting of some or all cookies.

However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), our site may not work as it should and you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.