COOKIE POLICY

Information about our use of cookies

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. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. 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.
Analytical/performance cookies. They 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.
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).
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. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie	Name	Purpose	More Information & Expiry
_ga	Google Analytics	Used to distinguish users. Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitors uses the website.	Expires after 2 years. More information can be found on the Google Analytics page
_gat	Google Analytics	Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is developed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_	Expires at 1 minute.
_gid	Google Analytics	Used to distinguish users. Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitors uses the website.	Expires after the session. More information can be found on the Google Analytics page.
cookie_notice_accepted	Cookie Notice	This cookie is used by the Privacy Policy to remember not to ask the user to accept cookies again.	Does not expire
Wordpress_test_cookie	WP Cookie Check	WordPress sets this cookie when you navigate to the home page. The cookie is used to check whether your web browser is set to allow or reject cookies.	A session cookie, deleted when you close your web browser.
Wordpress_xxxxx	Login authentication details in an encrypted form.	WordPress uses these cookies to store your authentication details, and their use is limited to the admin console area.	A session cookie, deleted when you close your web browser.
Wordpress_logged_in_xxxxx	Your login details in an encrypted form.	WordPress uses this cookie to indicate when you’re logged in, and who you are, for most interface use.	A session cookie, deleted when you close your web browser.
WordPress-settings-1	Wordpress Settings Cookie	Required for Wordpress logins and settings.	A session cookie, deleted when you close your web browser.
Wordpress-settings-time-1	Wordpress Settings Cookie	Optimized display and use of the wordpress website by the administrator.	Lasts for 1 year.

[Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.]

You 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 essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.