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. 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 |
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_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 |
| *_cp | Cookie Policy | Used as a flag to acknowledge that the user has accepted the cookie terms and conditions. | N/A | 83 Years |
| __tawkuuid | Functionality | Enhanced functionality and personalisation - i.e. Live chat facility | N/A | 10 Years |
| TawkConnectionTime | Functionality | Enhanced functionality and personalisation - i.e. Live chat facility | N/A | Session |
| Tawk_56aa32f50f45914704455e55 | Functionality | Enhanced functionality and personalisation - i.e. Live chat facility | N/A | 10 Years |
| __atuvc | Functionality | This cookie is associated with the Add This social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count. | 2 Years | |
| __atuvs | Functionality | This cookie is associated with the Add This social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. This is believed to be a new cookie from Add This which is not yet documented, but has been categorised on the assumption it serves a similar purpose to other cookies set by the service. | < 24 Hours | |
| __cfduid | Strictly Necessary | Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to speed up page load times. According to CloudFlare it is used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. It does not contain any user identification information. | 1 Year | |
| _hjIncludedInSample | Performance | This cookie is associated with web analytics functionality and services from Hot Jar, a Malta based company. It uniquely identifies a visitor during a single browser session and indicates they are included in an audience sample. | https://cookiepedia.co.uk/cookies/_hjIncludedInSample
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