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Cookie Policy
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.
What is a cookie?
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.
How do we use cookies?
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, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance 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. [We use Google Analytics to provide anonymous statistics on how our site is used]. Some performance cookies may be placed and managed by third parties.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name 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. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, providers of web traffic analysis services such as Google Analytics) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
Your cookie preferences
We understand that not everyone wants to see targeted adverts or contribute to statistics on website use. When you first visit our website, you will be asked to confirm which types of cookies you agree to us using. You cannot disable cookies that are strictly necessary for our website to operate correctly, but we will not place other cookies unless you agree.
You can change your cookie preferences on our website at any time by managing your user account on our website or by deleting cookies and site data for our websites from your browser. For more information on how to delete cookies, please check your web browser’s help section.
You can also configure cookie settings in your web browser to prevent first party cookies (from our website) and/or third-party cookies (from other websites) from being used when you visit our website. You can find out more about how to do this at the following links:
However, please bear in mind that if you don’t allow us to use certain cookies it may prevent you from accessing parts of our website or result in a loss of functionality which degrades your experience of the website.
What cookies do we use?
We use the following cookies on the website – these are cookies that we place on your device (and they will show as being placed by our domain, [INSERT DOMAIN ADDRESS]).
| Cookie Name | Cookie Description | Category | Type | Expiration |
| wordpress_[hash] | to store the authentication details on login. The authentication details include the username and double hashed copy of the password. However, this usage of the cookie is limited to the admin console area, the backend dashboard of the website. | Strictly necessary cookie | WordPress Users Cookie | |
| wordpress_logged_in_[hash] | to indicate when you are logged in, and who you are. This cookie is maintained on the front-end of the website as well when logged in. | Strictly necessary cookie | WordPress Users Cookie | |
| wordpress_test_cookie | to check if the cookies are enabled on the browser to provide appropriate user experience to the users. This cookie is used on the front-end, even if you are not logged in. | Strictly necessary cookie | WordPress Users Cookie | |
| wp-settings-{time}-[UID] | to customize the view of your admin interface and the front-end of the website. The value represented by [UID] is the individual user ID of the user as given to them in the users’ database table. | Strictly necessary cookie | WordPress Users Cookie |
The following third party cookies are also used on our website – these are cookies that are set by external websites (and will show as being placed by another domain).
| Domain (website) | Cookie Name | Description | Expiration |
For more information about how cookies are used in connection with Google Analytics please click here. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, click here.
There’s also a lot of good information about cookies available online. For more information about cookies generally, visit allaboutcookies.org.