COOKIE POLICY

Last Updated : 1 Jan 2023

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.

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. You should check the third party privacy policies on their websites if you have any concerns.

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 Information Expires
_ga Analytics tracking Used to distinguish users. https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage 2 Years
_gat Analytics tracking Used to throttle request rate. https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage 1 Minute
_gid Analytics tracking Used to distinguish users. https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage 24 Hours
lang Functionality In most cases, it will likely be used to store language preferences, potentially to serve up content in the stored language. https://cookiepedia.co.uk/cookies/lang Session
*_cp Cookie Policy Used as a flag to acknowledge that the user has accepted the cookie terms and conditions. N/A 83 Years
NID, 1P_Jar Preferences The NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on. https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/ 6 Months