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.
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.
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 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. These are the only things we are aware of that use cookies.
The following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services.
These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
| Cookie title and name | Purpose |
| Google Analytics | Statistical reporting on site use and user behaviour |
| _ga_* | For statistics to store and count pageviews. This lasts for 1 year. |
| _ga | For statistics to store and count pageviews. This lasts for 2 years. |
| _gid | For statistics to store and count pageviews. This lasts for 1 day. |
| _gat_gtag_UA_* | To store a unique user ID for statistics. This lasts for 1 minute. |
| GDPR Cookie Consent | A plugin to control cookie use for GDPR compliance. |
| CookieLawInfoConsent | Records the default button state of the corresponding category along with the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie, viewed_cookie_policy. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | This primary cookie monitors the user’s consent to the use of cookies when they click on the accept or reject buttons. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | Keeps track of the user’s cookie consent for analytics. The possible values for these cookies are: “Yes” for enable and “No” for disable”. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | Keeps track of the user’s cookie consent for other cookies. The possible values for these cookies are: “Yes” for enable and “No” for disable”. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | Keeps track of the user’s cookie consent for other cookies. The possible values for these cookies are: “Yes” for enable and “No” for disable”. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | Keeps track of the user’s cookie consent for other cookies. The possible values for these cookies are: “Yes” for enable and “No” for disable”. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | Keeps track of the user’s cookie consent for other cookies. The possible values for these cookies are: “Yes” for enable and “No” for disable”. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | Keeps track of the user’s cookie consent for other cookies. The possible values for these cookies are: “Yes” for enable and “No” for disable”. |
| Add This | AddThis social sharing widget which is embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content |
| __atuvs | Enables visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. This lasts for 1 year. |
| __atuvc | Enables visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count. This lasts for 2 year. |
You can block cookies, including third party advertising cookies, by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse 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.
For more information generally on cookies, including how to disable and delete them, please refer to all about cookies and the ICC UK Cookie Guide.