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We use cookies on the website for our own internal purposes, to track how users navigate through the website and therefore how to improve our online services.
There are some cookies necessary to this site functioning, such as interacting with our accessibility toolbar. These cookies will usually remove themselves when you close your browsing session. More information can be found in the ‘Necessary cookies’ section.
We use some additional cookies, such as Google Analytics, to help us gather information and improve the website. You have the option to deny use of these cookies; more information can be found in the ‘Additional cookies’ section. The information gathered from these cookies help us to: review how our website is being used and therefore help us to improve our website and online services; simplify your ability to navigate through the website; personalise and improve the service offered to you by understanding your preferences and establishing which areas of the website are most relevant to you; know if the website is operating effectively.
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The following cookies are necessary to our site functioning.
| Cookie | Purpose | Expiry |
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cookieconsent_status |
Persistently records your option regarding additional cookies. |
1 year |
Necessary accessibility cookies
The following necessary cookies allow the functions within our accessibility toolbar to work optimally.
| Cookie | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
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accessibility-controls |
Records option regarding additional cookies. |
End of browsing session |
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saveFontSize |
Allows the website (CMS) to record if the user’s font size selection. |
End of browsing session |
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contrast-mode |
Allows the website (CMS) to record the user’s contrast mode selection. |
End of browsing session |
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googtrans |
Allows the language of page content to be changed and records the language selected. |
End of browsing session |
The following third-party cookies are used for analytical and media purposes.
If you do not accept use of these additional cookies, some third-party media content – such as YouTube, Vimeo or Google Maps – may not load on this website.
Analytics cookies
In order to help us to improve the content, format and structure of this website we record and analyse how visitors use the using Google Analytics.
You can read Google’s extensive information on data practices in Google Analytics.
You can opt-out of Google Analytics on our website by denying additional cookies or by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
| Cookie | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
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_ga |
Distinguishes user for Google Analytics. |
2 years |
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_gid |
Distinguishes user for Google Analytics. |
1 day |
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_gat |
Throttles request rate for Google Analytics. |
1 minute |
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_ga_{ID} |
Persists session state for newer versions of Google Analytics. |
2 years |
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_gat_gtag_UA_{ID} |
Persists session state for older versions of Google Analytics. |
1 minute |
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__utma |
Distinguishes user and session for Google Analytics. |
2 years |
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__utmb |
Determines new session or visit for Google Analytics. |
30 minutes |
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__utmc |
Determines new session or visit for Google Analytics. |
End of browsing session |
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__utmz |
Stores traffic source for Google Analytics. |
6 months |
Embed cookies
We may use embeds from YouTube, Google Maps or Vimeo on our site to display content. That content uses the following third-party cookies. Where possible, we will use privacy-oriented settings to ensure as few cookies as possible require consent.
These additional cookies that remain, and the content from which they stem, will not display on the site unless you choose to ‘Accept additional cookies’.
| Cookie | Source | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
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CONSENT |
YouTube (.youtube-nocookie.com) |
Google cookie tracking consent with analytics and/or ad integration. |
2 years |
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CONSENT |
Google Maps (.google.com) |
Google cookie tracking consent with analytics and/or ad integration. |
2 years |
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__cf_bm |
Vimeo (.vimeo.com) |
Vimeo ClouldFlare layer which filters out requests from bots. |
30 minutes |
Captcha cookies
We use Google reCAPTCHA in order to verify whether or not you are a human when submitting data to the website. Most of the time, this will only be present on pages containing forms.
| Cookie | Source | Path | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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_GRECAPTCHA |
Google (www.google.com) |
/recaptcha |
Provides risk analysis to Google spam protection. |
6 months |
