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.
  • 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.
  • 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

Purpose

Expiry Period
__utma

Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users and sessions

More information is available at Google Analytics

 2 years
__utmb

Used by Google Analytics to determine new sessions/visits

More information is available at Google Analytics

 30 minutes
__utmc

Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit

More information is available at Google Analytics

 End of browser session
__utmt

Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate

More information is available at Google Analytics

 10 minutes
__utmz

Used by Google Analytics to store the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached our site.

More information is available at Google Analytics

 6 months
GPS

Used by YouTube to register a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location.

More information is available at Google

 Session
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

Used by YouTube to estimate the users’ band width on pages with integrated YouTube videos.

More information is available at Google

  179 days
YSC

Used by YouTube to register a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

More information is available at Google

 Session

 

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