What is in a cookie?
Cookies are small text files saved on your phone, tablet or computer when you visit a website. Once a cookie is saved on your computer, only the website that created the cookie can read it.
Cookies are generally divided into essential and non-essential:
- Essential cookies being those needed for site function properly.
- Non-essential cookies being those used for analytic purposes as well as marketing cookies from advertisers or third parties, including affiliates and those that identify a user when they returns to the website.
Why are cookies used?
We use cookies to store information about how you use our website and to help provide you with the best browsing experience we can. Most websites you visit will use cookies in order to improve your user experience by enabling that website to ‘remember’ you, either for the duration of your visit or for repeat visits.
This site uses a few different types of cookies including some essential and non-essential (if accepted).
Our essential cookies:
- Store your preferences on cookies whilst using our site.
- Make our website work as you’d expect.
- Remembers you if you login.
Our non-essential cookies:
- Help us to understand how people are using our website so that we can improve it for you.
- Measure how many people are using our services, so they can be made easier to use.
- Capture data submitted by you to subscribe to our mailing list and may track usage to improve our services.
The law says we must:
- Tell you that the cookies are there.
- Explain what the cookies are doing and why.
- Get your permission to store a cookie on your device (excluding those that are strictly necessary for the site to work).
What cookies are used on this site?
The cookies used on this site are detailed below. Non-essential cookies will only be activated if you have given your consent to all cookies. You can update your cookie preferences at any time on this page.
Essential cookies
| Name | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| tx_cookies-consent and tx_cookies-accepted or tx_cookies-disbaled | Stores your cookie preferences. | 1 year |
| fe_typo_user | Stores your user session state for TYPO3's frontend login. | When the browser is closed |
| be_typo_user | Stores your user session state if you are logged in the TYPO3 backend. | When you log out |
Non-essential cookies
These are also refered to as Analytics cookies.
| Name | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | These help us track user behaviour over time as they visit our site , distinguishing between users. | 2 years |
| _gid | Tracks user behavior across pages during a single session. | 24 hours |
| _ga_KFVFZE28D2 | Google Analytics unique ID for the site to allow tracking. | 1 year |
| _abck | Akamai – Bot protection / security | 1 year |
| _cq_duid | Coveo – Device ID for analytics | 3 months |
| _cq_suid | Coveo – Session ID for analytics | Session |
| _derived_epik | Yahoo Ads – Conversion tracking | 1 year |
| _fbp | Facebook – Ad/retargeting tracking | 3 months |
| _ga | Google Analytics – User tracking | 1 year |
| _ga_N5HD1RTH6E | Google Analytics – Session/campaign tracking | 1 year |
| _gcl_au | Google Ads – Conversion linker | 3 months |
| _gcl_aw | Google Ads – Ad click tracking | 3 months |
| _gcl_dc | Google Ads (DoubleClick) – Conversion tracking | 3 months |
| _gcl_gs | Google Ads – Click identifier | 3 months |
| _gtmeec | Mailchimp/Google Tag Manager – Ecommerce tracking | 3 months |
| _lc2_fpi | LiveChat – Persistent visitor ID | 1 year |
| _lc2_fpi_js | LiveChat – Session-based visitor ID | Session |
| _li_dcdm_c | LinkedIn Ads – Demographic tracking | Session |
| _li_ss | LinkedIn Ads – Short session tracking | 1 year |
| _mc_anon_id | Mailchimp – Anonymous visitor ID | 1 year |
| _mcid | Mailchimp – Email + on-site behaviour linking | 1 year |
| _pin_unauth | Pinterest – Conversion tracking for anonymous users | 1 year |
| _rdt_uuid | Reddit Ads – Visitor tracking | 3 months |
| _uetsid | Bing Ads – Session ID | 1 day |
| _uetvid | Bing Ads – Persistent user ID | 1 year |
| _zitok | Zuko – Session analytics | 1 year |
| bm_sz | Akamai – Bot management / fraud detection | 1 day |
| ELOQUA | Oracle Eloqua – Marketing automation | 1 year |
| FPGSID | Google Analytics 4 – Session ID | 1 day |
| FPID | Google Analytics 4 – Persistent user ID | 1 year |
| FPLC | Google – Cross-domain tracking | 1 day |
| fs_lua | FullStory – Last user activity timestamp | 1 day |
Links to other sites
All links are provided for information and convenience only. No responsibility is accepted for any content or programs provided or used in any other websites you open from within this website. We cannot provide more information about the cookies these sites use and suggest reading their individual cookie policy pages for further information.
More about Cookies
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit the UK Governements Legislation pages.