Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored temporarily on your computer. A cookie cannot read data off your hard disk, read cookie files created by other websites or damage your system.
We use cookies to enhance your interaction with our site. The cookies in this website are not used to track users through the system if they are not logged in and when a user registers they are accepting these secure cookies to be sent to their devices
This website only uses cookies to maintain a unique identity on your browser whilst you use certain pages. Any cookies used do not contain any record of the information you may enter, nor any other personal information. They are only used to measure overall website traffic and to ensure interactive sessions function correctly.
n order to keep our website and services relevant, easy to use and up-to-date, we use web analytics services to help us understand how people use them. We currently use a number of cookies from Google Analytics. The Google Analytics cookies contain a randomly generated ID used to recognise your browser when you read a page. The cookie contains no personal information and is used only for web analytics. Google Analytics sets the following cookies by default as described in the table below.
__utma | This cookie is used to determine unique visitors to our site and it is updated with each page view. | 2 years from set/ update |
__utmb | This cookie is used to establish and continue a user session with our site. Each time a user visits a different page on our site, this cookie is updated to expire in 30 minutes, thus continuing a single session for as long as user activity continues within 30-minute intervals. This cookie expires when a user pauses on a page on our site for longer than 30 minutes. | 30 minutes from set/ update. |
__utmc | This cookie operates in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether or not to establish a new session for the user. In particular, this cookie is not provided with an expiration date, so it expires when the user exits the browser. | Not set |
__utmz | This cookie stores the type of referral used by the visitor to reach our site, whether via a direct method, a referring link, a website search, or a campaign such as an ad or an email link. It is used to calculate search engine traffic, ad campaigns and page navigation within our own site. The cookie is updated with each page view to your site. | 6 months from set/update. |
If you are concerned about the potential use of information gathered from your computer by cookies, you can set your browser to prompt you before it accepts a cookie. Most Internet browsers have settings that let you identify and/or reject cookies. Most modern browsers will allow you to: See what cookies you’ve got and delete them on an individual basis. Block third party cookies. Block cookies from particular sites. Block all cookies from being set. Delete all cookies when you close your browser. If you do not want to receive cookies from this website, select cookie settings under the privacy settings in your browser options, then add our domain to the list of websites you do not want to accept cookies from. Under settings you can also delete individual cookies or any cookies that your browser has stored.
You can find more information on how to delete and control cookies at the About Cookies website.