Web cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | More Information |
| _utmc _utma _utmb _utmz _atuvc | Used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. | Click here for an overview of privacy at Google Analytics To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. | |
| Hotjar | _hjClosedSruveyInvites _hjDonePolls _hjMinimizedPolls _hjDoneTestersWidgets _hjMinimizedTestersWidgets _hjDoneSurveys _hjIncludedInSample | We use the HotJar customer experience analytics service to help us analyse how visitors interact with our website. We use this information to improve our website, make it more user-friendly and monitor that it is performing correctly. We do not collect or transfer to HotJar, any personally identifiable information. Hotjar does not track or record visitors which have cookies disabled. | For more information, visit the Hotjar website: https://www.hotjar.com/. |
| AddThis | uid | The site uses a common social media tool for bookmarking and sharing content. Depending on the users choice additional cookies will be used by the selected vendor. For example with facebook and Google +, it requires cookies to associate the users bookmarking choices with their Facebook or Google + account. | Click here to read the AddThis privacy policy – “Privacy Practices for End Users who use the AddThis Sharing Button on Publisher Websites”. |
| SIFR | sifrFetch | Used to check browser support for a web technology that improves the presentation of our website. | |
| Expression Engine | Exp_perpage Exp_last_activity Exp_tracker Exp_last_visit | Set by our content management system (the software we use to update our website). It is not used for any purpose and no personal information is collected. | The supplier of our content management system is working to remove this cookie from their product. |
| YouTube | _ar_v4 | The site embeds videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. | To find out more please visit YouTube’s embedding videos information page. |