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 use the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
A cookie is a small text 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.
- Helpful Cookies These are cookies which improve the experience of using the website - for instance by not displaying the cookie message every time - but are not strictly necessary.
- 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.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| motd | This cookie remembers the last message of the day. | 6 months |
| cookieStatement | This cookie remembers if you want to see the cookie statement each time. | 6 months |
| __utma, __utmz | These cookies are used by google analytics. We use these to check that people can navigate the site and are not having problems. | 2 years, 6 months |
| _ga, _gat, _git | These cookies are used by google analytics. We use these to check that people can navigate the site and are not having problems. | 2 years, 10 minutes, 24 hours |
| at | Access token used to control the user's session. | Session |
| lang, NEXT_LOCALE | Used to remember the user's preferred language. Without this cookie, English will be used. | Session, Until cleared |
You can 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) our site will not work correctly.