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A “cookie” is a piece of information, like a tag, that’s stored on your device when you visit a website. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information supplied by the user. A cookie cannot read data from a user’s hard drive or read cookie files created by other websites. The use of cookies is an industry standard that can be found on most major websites. We use information obtained from cookies to tailor our services better to our users’ needs. Many improvements and updates to our site are based on such data.
We reserve the right to modify or amend the use of cookies at any time and for any reason. Any changes will be posted on our site and will take effect as soon as they are posted. Where required we will obtain your consent for any new non-essential cookies before they are placed.
We use the following cookies
Strictly necessary cookies: Necessary cookies are essential for our website to function properly. These cookies enable basic operational and security features of the website.
Analytical/performance cookies: These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our site and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies: These are used to recognise you when you return to our site. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.
Please note that third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You can find out more information about the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie | Function | Category | Expiry | First or Third Party |
More Information | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CookieLawInfoConsent | Used after user intereacts with the cookie banner. | Strictly necessary | 1 year | First Party | Click here for more information | Cookie Law |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | Remembers the consent of users for the use of cookies in the ‘Necessary’ category | Strictly necessary | 11 months | First Party | Click here for more information | Cookie Law |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary | Remembers the consent of users for the use of cookies in the ‘Non-Necessary’ category | Strictly necessary | 11 months | First Party | Click here for more information | Cookie Law |
| viewed_cookie_policy | Used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. | Strictly necessary | 11 months | First Party | Click here for more information | Cookie Law |
| _ga | Used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites’ analytics reports. | Analytical/ Performance | 2 years | First Party | Click here for more privacy information | Google Analytics |
| _gid | Used to store and count pageviews. | Analytical/ Performance | 1 day | First Party | Click here for more privacy information | Google Analytics |
| _gat | Used to read and filter requests from bots. | Analytical/ Performance | 1 minute | First Party | Click here for more privacy information | Google Analytics |
| iutk | Recognises the user’s device and what Issuu documents have been read. | Functional | 1 day | Third Party | Click here for more privacy information | Issuu.com |
| mc | This cookie allows users to sign up to our mailing list. | Functional | 1 year | Third Party | Click here for more privacy information | Mailchimp |
Turning Off Cookies
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. The Help function within your browser should tell you how to do this. For more information about how to change your browser settings please see: www.aboutcookies.org. Doing so however is likely to limit the functionality of our site.