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 and also allows us to improve our site. 

We use the following cookies:

  • ‘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. Necessary cookies cannot be disabled and our lawful bases for this processing of your data are ‘contract fulfilment’ and ‘legitimate interests’.

We would like to use the following cookies, but only if you give us your permission to do so by consenting. They are all disabled as the default.

  • ‘Preferences’ cookies. They collect data to remember choices users make to improve and give a more personalised experience.
  • ‘Statistics’ 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.
  • ‘Marketing’ cookies. They track advertising effectiveness to provide a more relevant service and deliver better ads to suit 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 Expiration Time Description
utma 2 years from set/update Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
utmb 30 mins from set/update Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
utmc End of browser session Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit.
utmz 6 months from set/update Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached the site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

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 Preferences cookies.