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.
- 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, for example Google Analytics.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
|
Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Expires |
|
_ga |
used to count how many people visit the site by tracking which visitors have visited before |
2 years |
|
_gid |
used to distinguish users |
24 hours |
|
_gat |
used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made |
10 minutes |
Google Analytics
|
Cookie name |
Purpose |
Expires |
|
_utma |
used to distinguish users and sessions |
2 years |
|
_utmb |
used to calculate the average length of time you spend on the site |
30 minutes |
|
_utmc |
used to calculate when a user closes their browser |
When a browser is closed |
|
_utmz |
this tells us how you reached the site (for example from another website or where a search engine is used) |
6 months |
|
Category |
Name |
Purpose |
Duration |
|
Joomla Sessions Cookie (essential) |
joomla_user_state |
Joomla CMS automatically installs a cookie into your web browser as soon as you visit our website |
When you close your browser |
|
Google reCAPTCHA |
PREF NID HSID APISID
|
helps to protect our website from spam and abuse |
When you close your brower |
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies.
