1 INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES
1.1 Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
1.2 What is a cookie? A cookie is a small text file stored by your web browser on your computer or mobile device. Some cookies are essential for a website to work and help us provide you with relevant information. They also allow us to recognise your computer (but not specifically who is using it) when you access our site and to improve the usability and performance of our site.
1.3 What do we use cookies for? We use cookies to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how people use our sites and to help us improve their structure and content. We cannot identify you personally from this information.
2 COMMON TYPES OF COOKIES
We have set out below some common types of cookies:
2.1 Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. These essential cookies are always enabled because our website won’t work properly without them. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our website.
2.2 Compliance cookies. This cookie is placed when you click ‘Continue’ on the cookie information banner that is displayed at the top of our website and tells us you have given your consent to the use of cookies on our site and stops this message from appearing. A compliance cookie is also placed if you change your cookie preferences using the control panel on our website.
2.3 Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
2.4 Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
2.5 Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
3 COOKIES WE USE
3.1 You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
|
Cookie Title Cookie Name |
Type |
Purpose |
Duration |
|
ARRAffinity |
Functional |
ARRAffinity cookie is set by Azure app service, and allows the service to choose the right instance established by a user to deliver subsequent requests made by that user. |
Session |
|
ARRAffinitySameSite |
Necessary |
This cookie is set by Windows Azure cloud, and is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. |
Session |
|
_ga |
Analytics |
Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. |
1 year 1 month 4 days |
|
_gid |
Analytics |
Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
1 day |
|
_gat_gtag_UA_* |
Analytics |
Google Analytics sets this cookie to store a unique user ID. |
1 minute |
|
_gat_gtag_UA_* |
Analytics |
Google Analytics sets this cookie to store a unique user ID. |
1 minute |
|
_ga_* |
Analytics |
Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. |
1 year 1 month 4 days |
4 TURNING OFF AND DELETING COOKIES
4.1 When you use our site, we’ll give you the opportunity to consent to all of the cookies we’ve listed above (except for strictly necessary cookies). You can also refuse to accept any cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. If you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our sites. If you use different devices to view and access our sites (for example, your computer, smart phone, tablet etc.) you will need to ensure that each browser on each device is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.
4.2 If you disable the cookies that we use, this may impact your experience while on the sites.
4.3 To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
5 BLOCKING COOKIES
You can also block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
6 MORE INFORMATION
For more detailed information about cookies please visit www.allaboutcookies.org which provides guidance on how to control cookies.
7 CONTACT
If you have any questions regarding this policy, please Contact Us.
8 CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We may revise this cookies policy from time to time. Any changes we may make to our cookies policy in the future will be posted on this page.