What are Cookies?

A Cookie is a piece of data stored by a website within a browser which remembers things that a browser has done in the past, such as logging in and which pages were visited. They are used to make interaction with the website faster and easier; helping provide the best user experience of the website.

What Cookies does this website use?

The cookies used on our websites have been categorised based on the guidelines found in the ICC UK Cookie guide. Here is a list of the cookies present on this site and what they do:

  • Functional Cookies: These cookies are used to tailor the website to you by storing your preferences, and to enable certain functionality within the site (such as storing user language preference).
  • Local storage cookies: These monitor whether a cookie consent box has already been shown and clicked by a user or not.
  • Google Analytics: Tracks site usage to help us identify ways of improving the site. These are third party cookies that can be identified by __utm, _ga, _gat, _gid prefixes. Please refer to Google Analytics (www.google.co.uk) for relevant cookie information.
  • Hotjar: Tracks site usage to help us identify ways of improving the site. These are first party cookies that can be identified by _hj, hj prefixes. Please refer to Hotjar (www.hotjar.com) for relevant cookie information.

 

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Privacy Notice

Our Privacy Notice describes how we process personal data, your rights over that processing, and how to contact our Data Protection Controller.

This notice was last updated on 21st July 2021.