Cookie Policy

Information about our use of cookies

A cookie is a piece of information that is held on the hard drive of your computer which records how you have used a website. Cookies allow website operators to accumulate useful information, such as whether the computer (and sometimes its user) has visited the site before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

In common with many other website operators, we use cookies to monitor how people use our website including estimating audience size and patterns of use in order to help us to provide you with a better service. Cookies make it easier for you to log on and use the website during future visits. They also allow us to personalise the content of the website for you by storing information about your preferences.

In general, we use the following types of 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.

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.

Managing Cookies

In order to store cookies on your device, website owners must now have your consent. Therefore, you agree to our use of cookies when confirming your agreement on our home page. You can withdraw your consent for us to use cookies at any time. However please bear in mind that failing to consent to our use of cookies may prevent you from accessing our website or result in a loss of functionality which degrades your experience of the website.

You can manage cookies by activating the setting on your internet browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Please refer to the instructions or the online help files available on your relevant browser if you wish to manage cookies in this way. Alternatively, you can visit the following websites for further information: www.allaboutcookies.org. To manage cookies relating to targeted advertising activities, you can visit www.youronlinechoices.com. To opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you can visit tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout..

Changes to this Cookies Policy

We aim to meet high standards and our policies and procedures are, therefore, reviewed regularly. From time to time we may change how we use and place cookies. Accordingly, we recommend that you check this page periodically in order to review our current policies and practices.

Cookies that we use on our Websites:

Name

Key

Description

Google Analytics

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Analytics - Providing Details to Google Analytics

Google Analytics

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Analytics - Providing Details to Google Analytics

Google Analytics

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Analytics - Providing Details to Google Analytics

Google Analytics

__utmc

Analytics - Providing Details to Google Analytics

Google Analytics

__utmz

Analytics - Providing Details to Google Analytics

Third Party Request

Google Analytics

n/a

Analytics - Providing Details to Google Analytics Javascript

Google Analytics

n/a

Analytics - Providing Details to Google Analytics

Name

Key

Description

Google Analytics

__utmt

Analytics - Providing Details to Google Analytics

Google Analytics

__utma

Analytics - Providing Details to Google Analytics

Google Analytics

__utmb

Analytics - Providing Details to Google Analytics

Google Analytics

__utmc

Analytics - Providing Details to Google Analytics

Google Analytics

__utmz

Analytics - Providing Details to Google Analytics

Third Party Request

Google Analytics

n/a

Analytics - Providing Details to Google Analytics Javascript

Google Analytics

n/a

Analytics - Providing Details to Google Analytics

Name

Key

Description

Concrete5

CONCRETE5

Open Source Content Management (Website Backend)

_gat

_gat

Google Analytics cookie to limit user request numbers

_ga

_ga

Google Analytics cookie for first time logon

_gid

_gid

Google Analytics to distinguish users

Third Party Request

Google Analytics

n/a

Analytics - Providing Details to Google Analytics Javascript

Google Analytics

n/a

Analytics - Providing Details to Google Analytics

Name

Key

Description

_gat

_gat

Google Analytics cookie to limit user request numbers

_ga

_ga

Google Analytics cookie for first time logon

_gid

_gid

Google Analytics to disguish users

Third Party Request

Google Analytics

n/a

Analytics - Providing Details to Google Analytics Javascript

Google Analytics

n/a

Analytics - Providing Details to Google Analytics