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Cookie types explained
  • Essential: Essential cookies enable basic functionality and are necessary for the website to work properly.
  • Analytics: Analytic cookies collect information anonymously. This information helps us to understand how our visitors use our website.

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:

  1. Essential cookies being those needed for site function properly.
  2. 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

Table showing the essential cookies used on this site including their purpose and expiry.
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.

Table showing the non-essential cookies used on this site if accepted including their purpose and expiry.
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.