Cookie Policy
Terms of Use and Cookie Policy
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 or 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. [We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.]
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Cookie Title | Cookie Name | Expiration Time | Description |
Google Analytics | _ga | 2 years | Used to distinguish users. |
_gid | 24 hours | Used to distinguish users. | |
_gat | 1 minute | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>. | |
AMP_TOKEN | 30 seconds to 1 year | Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. | |
_gac_<property-id> | 90 days | Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and AdWords accounts, AdWords website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. | |
Google Analytics ga.js | __utma | 2 years from set/update | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
__utmt | 10 minutes | Used to throttle request rate. | |
__utmb | 30 mins from set/update | Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | |
__utmc | End of browser session | Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. | |
__utmz | 6 months from set/update | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | |
__utmv | 2 years from set/update | Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | |
Facebook Pixel | From session to 10 years | Conversion tracking and remarketing. This is classified as targeting. By visiting our website, our advertising may appear in your newsfeed, or side bar on Facebook. More information can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ | |
LinkedIn Insight Tag | Conversion tracking and remarketing. This is classified as targeting. The LinkedIn Insight Tag allows measurement of ROI of ads, and displaying ads in the user’s newsfeed after visiting our website. |
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies (further information on how to do this can be found here: https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/online/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 website.Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after the periods that are set out in the above table