Cookie Policy

By using Our Site, you may also receive certain third-party Cookies on your computer or device. Third-party Cookies are those placed by websites, services, and/or parties other than us. For more details, please refer to the table below. These Cookies are not integral to the functioning of Our Site and your use and experience of Our Site will not be impaired by refusing consent to them.

All Cookies used by and on Our Site are used in accordance with current Cookie Law.

Before Cookies are placed on your computer or device, you will be shown a This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. (pop up message) requesting your consent to set those Cookies. By giving your consent to the placing of Cookies you are enabling us to provide the best possible experience and service to you. You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of Cookies; however certain features of Our Site may not function fully or as intended. The following third-party Cookies may be placed on your computer or device:

Preventing the use of cookies

You can stop your browser from accepting cookies. However, you may find that aspects of our website will stop working or work less well if you do. We therefore do not recommend turning cookies off when using our website.

Your cookie settings can be changed. A web browser usually allows you to do this in the ‘preferences’.

To find out more about cookies, to see what cookies have been set and how to delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites follow this link.

Name of Cookie Provider Purpose
_gat Google This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes.
_ga Google 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. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.
_gid Google 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.
mc_session_ids[default] Captcha Captcha plugin for website forms (captcha is a computer program intended to distinguish human from machine input)
mc_session_ids[multi][0] Captcha Captcha plugin for website forms
mc_session_ids[multi][1] Captcha Captcha plugin for website forms
mc_session_ids[multi][2] Captcha Captcha plugin for website forms
mc_session_ids[multi][3] Captcha Captcha plugin for website forms
mc_session_ids[multi][4] Captcha Captcha plugin for website forms