How we use cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work more efficiently, and sometimes provide useful information to the owners of the site.

There are some cookies necessary to this site functioning, such as interacting with our accessibility toolbar. These cookies will usually remove themselves when you close your browsing session. More information can be found in the ‘Necessary cookies’ section.

We use some additional cookies, such as Google Analytics, to help us gather information and improve the website. You have the option to deny use of these cookies; more information can be found in the ‘Additional cookies’ section.

You can find out more information on cookies from the Information Commissioners Office.

Necessary cookies

The following cookies are necessary to our site functioning.

Cookie Purpose Expiry

cookieconsent_status

Persistently records your option regarding additional cookies.

1 year

Necessary accessibility cookies 

The following necessary cookies allow the functions within our accessibility toolbar to work optimally. 

Cookie Purpose Expiry

accessibility-controls

Records option regarding additional cookies.

End of browsing session

saveFontSize

Allows the website (CMS) to record of the user’s font size selection

End of browsing session

contrast-mode

Allows the website (CMS) to record the user’s contrast mode selection.

End of browsing session

googtrans

Allows the language of page content to be changed and records the language selected.

End of browsing session

Additional cookies

The following third-party cookies are used for analytical and media purposes.

If you do not accept use of these additional cookies, some third-party media content – such as YouTube, Vimeo or Google Maps – may not load on this website.

Analytics cookies

In order to help us to improve the content, format and structure of this website we record and analyse how visitors use the using Google Analytics.

You can read Google’s extensive information on data practices in Google Analytics.

You can opt-out of Google Analytics on our website by denying additional cookies or by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Cookie Purpose Expiry

_ga 

Distinguishes user for Google Analytics. 

2 years 

_gid 

Distinguishes user for Google Analytics. 

1 day 

_gat 

Throttles request rate for Google Analytics. 

1 minute 

_ga_{ID} 

Persists session state for newer versions of Google Analytics. 

2 years 

_gat_gtag_UA_{ID} 

Persists session state for older versions of Google Analytics. 

1 minute 

__utma 

Distinguishes user and session for Google Analytics. 

2 years 

__utmb 

Determines new session or visit for Google Analytics. 

30 minutes 

__utmc 

Determines new session or visit for Google Analytics. 

End of browsing session 

__utmz 

Stores traffic source for Google Analytics. 

6 months 

Embed cookies

We may use embeds from YouTube, Google Maps or Vimeo on our site to display content. That content uses the following third-party cookies. Where possible, we will use privacy-oriented settings to ensure as few cookies as possible require consent.

These additional cookies that remain, and the content from which they stem, will not display on the site unless you choose to ‘Accept additional cookies’.

Cookie Source Purpose Expiry

CONSENT

YouTube (.youtube-nocookie.com)

Google cookie tracking consent with analytics and/or ad integration.

2 years

CONSENT

Google Maps (.google.com) 

Google cookie tracking consent with analytics and/or ad integration.

2 years

__cf_bm

Vimeo (.vimeo.com)

Vimeo ClouldFlare layer which filters out requests from bots.

30 minutes

Captcha cookies 

We use Google reCAPTCHA in order to verify whether or not you are a human when submitting data to the website. Most of the time, this will only be present on pages containing forms.

Cookie Source Path Purpose Expiry

_GRECAPTCHA 
_grecaptcha

Google (www.google.com)

/recaptcha

Provides risk analysis to Google spam protection.

6 months