Cookie policy

Our website uses cookies to enable us to provide you with a positive user experience.

What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer (or other device such as a mobile phone) by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work and to improve browsing experiences. Cookies are also used in order to provide information to website owners and their partners in order to analyse website use and to tailor advertising.

Important information about how we use cookies

We use cookies to improve your experience of using our website. They also allow us to personalise the content that you see, to enable you to easily share it and they allow us to analyse your use of our website.

Some of the advertisers and web analytics organisations we work with also place cookies on your computer via our website in order to tailor advertising that you see on other websites and to help us analyse the effectiveness of our online marketing.

We use the following types of cookies:

  • 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 integrate functionality of other websites and services and to recognise you when you return to our website, so that we can remember your preferences (for example, your cookie preferences);
  • 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.

How to disable cookies

If you have consented to our use of cookies the cookies that appear in the table below may be placed on your computer, depending on the functionality available through our website that you use and your preferences.

If you have rejected any functionality cookies, some of the features on our website may not function without them. This is explained below.

You can disable all or any of the cookies listed below at any time by adjusting the settings in your browser. The help function in your browser should tell you how to do this.

The table below lists the cookies we may use, why we use them and where you can find out more about them.

Cookies Type Name Expiry Purpose
Universal analytics Analytical _ga
_gid
_gat
_gat_UA-83143239-1		 2 years
24 hrs
10 mins
10 mins

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.

To find out more about Google Analytics cookies, please visit: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
Double click ads Targeting DSID
IDE		 1 year
1 year 6 months

These cookies are used in conjunction with a DoubleClick tag. These cookies help us deliver targeted advertisements to visitors to our website when they visit third party websites. Doubleclick use cookies to track and report on conversions. User data is anonymous.

To find out more about DoubleClick cookies, please visit: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
Application Insights Analytical Ai_session
Ai_user		 30 mins
30 mins

This website uses Application Insights, a web analytics service provided by Microsoft, Inc. ("Microsoft"). Application Insights uses "cookies", to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Microsoft on servers in the USA. Microsoft will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Microsoft may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Microsoft's behalf.

To find out more about Application insights, please visit: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/application-insights/app-insights-overview
Youtube

Functional

APISID
HSID
LOGIN_INFO
PREF
SAPISID
SID
SSID
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

 2 years
2 years
2 years
2 years
2 years
2 years
2 years
6 months

We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.

To find out more about Youtube cookies, please visit: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en
 Facebook

Functional

datr
lu
fr

  2 years
 2 years
 2 years		 These cookies are used when integrating Facebook and the sharing of content.
 LinkedIn

Functional and analytical

JSESSIONID
lang
lidc
bcookie
bscookie

 End of browser session
2 years
2 years 		 LinkedIn cookies are used in order to enable content to be shared. LinkedIn cookies are also used to gather information on how website content is shared.
Twitter Functional and analytical _twitter_sess
personalization_id
guest_id
external_referer
ct0

2 years
2 years
2 years
7 days
2 years

Twitter cookies are used in order to enable content to be shared. Twitter cookies are also used to gather information on how website content is shared.

To find out more about Twitter cookies, please visit: https://twitter.com/en/privacy
 Hotjar Functional and analytical _hjClosedSurveyInvites
_hjDonePolls
_hjMinimizedPolls
_hjDoneTestersWidgets
_hjMinimizedTestersWidgets
_hjIncludedInSample
_hjShownFeedbackMessage		 1 year
1 year
1 year
1 year
1 year
1 year
1 year		 Hotjar is an analytics and feedback tool that we use to understand how our website is used and improve usability. Hotjar sets cookies to help us track behaviour across pages and to control visitor polls. The cookies carry no personally identifiable information. To find out more about Hotjar cookies, please visit https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/cookie-information
Privy Functional

_privy_a
_privy_b


_privy_{{identifier}}

2 years
2 years


1 year

Anonymously records site and display-related activity so the user does not see displays that are irrelevant or have already been dismissed.

Used to distinguish users.