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. 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.
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 | MORE INFO |
|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | Web server user session Management. Expires when user closes the browser. | The cookies contain hashed data, so there is no need for concern about someone gleaning your username and password by reading the cookie data. |
| WP_SESSION | User session Management. Expires in 24 hours. | n/a |
| civicCookieControl | EU cookie Law Informational message. Expires in 90 days. | n/a |
| utm* | Google Analytics for tracking site visitor behaviour. Expires in 30 days. | n/a |
| Analytics for Facebook Ads (4 cookies). Expires at various times. | n/a | |
| Addthis | Social Media links (9 cookies) that determine where our site content is being shared. Expires at various times. | n/a |
