Cookies Policy
To enhance your experience on our website and social media platforms we use ‘cookies’. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or device if you agree.
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 an online payment.
- Analytical or performance cookies. These 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.
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 |
| Essential cookies | PHPSESSID | PHP session cookie associated with embedded content from this domain. This cookie expires after 0 days. |
| Essential cookies | OptanonConsent | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. This cookie expires after 365 days. |
| Essential cookies | OptanonAlertBoxClosed | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. This cookie expires after 365 days. |
| Essential cookies | session_UUID | This cookie is generated as part of the sign-in process and used to defend against Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) This cookie expires after 0 days. |
| Performance cookies | _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited._gid This cookie expires after 1 day. |
| Performance cookies | _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. This cookie expires after 730 days. |
| Performance cookies | _gat_UA- | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. This cookie expires after 0 days. |
| Performance cookies | visitor_id | This is a cookie pattern that appends a unique identifier for a website visitor, used for tracking purposes for Woobox. This cookie expires after 10 years. |
| Performance cookies | ANONCHK | This cookie is used by Microsoft for storing the session ID for a user. This cookie ensures that clicks from advertisement on the Bing search engine are verified and it is used for reporting purposes and for personalisation. This cookie expires after 10 minutes. |
| Performance cookies | CLID | Clarity is a platform that helps us understand how users use and navigate our website. This identifies the first-time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity. This cookie expires after 1 year. |
| Performance cookies | SM | Clarity is a platform that helps us understand how users use and navigate our website. This is used in synchronising the MUID across Microsoft domains. This cookie expires at the end of the session. |
| Performance cookies | MUID | Clarity is a platform that helps us understand how users use and navigate our website. This identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. This cookie expires after 1 year 24 days. |
| Targeting cookies | _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. This cookie expires after 89 days. |
| Targeting cookies | CONSENT | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. This cookie expires after 5989 days. |
| Targeting cookies | YSC | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. This cookie expires after 0 days. |
| Targeting cookies | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos This cookie expires after 180 days. |
| Targeting cookies | test_cookie | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange These cookies expires after 0 days. |
| Targeting cookies | _GRECAPTCHA | This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer’s adverts appear. This cookie expires after 179 days. |
| Targeting cookies | SRM_B | This domain is owned by Mircosoft – it is the site for the search engine Bing. This cookie expires after 389 days. |
With the exception of essential cookies, which are set automatically, our website allows you to choose which cookies you want to accept.
You can alternatively block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
This Policy was last updated 5th January 2024.
