Cookie Policy

Our site 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 browsing or using the services we provide on 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 memory of your device. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your device’s memory.

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.

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).

Cookie Name Purpose More information
Google Analytics _ga Used to distinguish users. Persistent Cookie +2 years
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_gid Used to distinguish users. Persistent Cookie +24 hours
_gat Used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. Cookie 1 min
google.com NID This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to help build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other sites. 183 days
CloudFlare _cfduid Security Cookie set by CloudFlare 365 days
GDPR gdpr[allowed_cookies] Functional Cookie required to manage the cookie control functionality on the website. 365 days
gdpr[consent_types] Functional Cookie required to manage the cookie control functionality on the website. 365 days
gdprprivacy_bar Functional Cookie required to manage the cookie control functionality on the website. 365 days

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 may block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the storage 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.