What are Cookies?.
Cookies are small files saved on your phone, tablet, or computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The information stored in cookies is used to make websites work or contains things about how you use the website. For example, that you have acknowledged a pop-up or the pages you visit.
Cookies are not viruses or computer programs. They are very small text files, so they do not take up much space on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit. Most modern websites use them to enable functionality, to help the site work more efficiently, or to provide information about the use of the site to the owners.
This statement refers to ‘cookies’ but covers similar browser storage technologies, such as HTML local storage. Our cookies do not contain any personal information about you and do not hold any information about which sites you visited before you came here.
How we use Cookies.
We use cookies to measure how you use our website, for example, which links you click on.
Website Usage Cookies.
We use tools such as Google Analytics and Google Optimise to help us anonymously measure how you use our websites. This allows us to make improvements based on our users’ needs.
These tools set cookies that store anonymised information about how you got to the site, and how you interact with the site. We do not allow these tools to use or share the data about how you use this site and all data stored is anonymised.
Website usage cookies can be managed on this website, as described in the managing cookies section in this statement. Each of the services we use to record website usage provides a way to opt out of cookies.
We use Google Analytics for usage analytics like page views and link clicks.
You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies. View Google’s privacy policy for more information.
| Cookie | Purpose | Expiration |
| _ga | Used to distinguish users. | 2 years |
| _ga_ | Used to distinguish users in Google Analytics 4. If Google Analytics 4 is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _ga_. | 2 months |
| _gat | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_. | 1 minute |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users. | 1 day |
| _gat | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_. | 1 minute |
| _tempCid | Copy of _ga used to track successful sign-in from the server rather than client side. | 30 minutes |
Managing Cookies.
Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org, or use the “Help” function within your browser.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.