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.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

_cfduid
This is used by our content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic

cookies.js / cookie-agreed
This is used by Drupal to record whether or not the cookies notification pop-up on our website has been acknowledged by users of our website

has_js
This is used by Drupal to determine whether a user’s internet browser is compatible with javascript

_ga
This is used by Google Analytics to register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how visitors to our website use our website

_gat
This is used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate

_gid
This is used by Google Analytics to register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how visitors to our website use our website

_fbp
This is used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party subscribers/advertisers

fr
This is used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party subscribers/advertisers

tr
used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party subscribers/advertisers

pageread/1p-user-list/#
This is used by Google to register a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted advertising and to identify visitors to our website across different visits and devices.

r/collect
This is used by doubleclick.net to send data to Google Analytics about the device and behaviour of users of our website. It also tracks users of our website across different devices and marketing channels.

test_cookie
This is used by doubleclick.net to check if a user’s internet browser supports cookies

__lc.visitor_id
This is used by LiveChat Inc to recognise returning visitors to our website

lc_sso
This is used by LiveChat Inc to control the chat online service available on our website

lc_window_state
This is used by LiveChat Inc to check the chat window state (i.e. whether it is minimised or maximised)

_hjIncludedInSample
This is used by HotJar to determine whether a user is included in the same which is used to generate Heatmaps, Funnels and Recordings

ctools-collapsible-state
This is used by Drupal to remember whether collapsible items are open or closed

Drupal.tableDrag.showWeight
This is used by Drupal to store user interface preferences

DrupalModuleFilter
This is used by Drupal to store user interface preferences

newsPopup
This is used to suppress or show pop-ups

tms_VisitorID
This is used to identify each user of our website and attributes site interactions to them

tms_wsip
This is a housekeeping cookie that works in conjunction with the tms_VisitorID cookie to capture user activity

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 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.