Types of cookie
Categories
Necessary cookies help make our website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
Performance cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display content and ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable.
Persistent cookies and session cookies
Persistent cookies remain on a visitor’s device for a set amount of time. This means for example that we can identify when a site visitor is a repeat visitor or new to us.
Session cookies are created temporarily and last for as long as your browser window is open, being automatically deleted after you close your browser. These allow us to link the actions of a user during a visit to the website, to provide a consistent experience.
The cookies we use
Details about the cookies we use are set out in the table below. Some of these are third party cookies - see the section on third party cookies below for more information.
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Cookie |
Purpose |
Duration |
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DYNSRV |
This cookie is added by our load balancer to track which web server to send the visitor to. Its purpose is to improve the performance of the website. |
Session |
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_ga |
This is a Google Analytics cookie. It helps us monitor the use and performance of our website.
|
2 years |
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_gid |
This is a Google Analytics cookie. It helps us monitor the use and performance of our website. |
24 hours |
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__qca, __ssid, _abexps, _ceg.s, _ceg.s, continuous_play_v3, player, vuid |
Our website uses Vimeo to embed videos from our Vimeo channel as well as other channels. These cookies support video playback. |
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cookie_notice_accepted |
This tells us whether the visitor has accepted the cookie notice. |
2 years |
Third party cookies
First party cookies are the cookies that are set by this website; third party cookies are set by other websites.
This website uses cookies provided by other organisations to support functions such as statistical performance analysis, rich media functionality and security. These are third party cookies. You can read privacy policies from these third parties below:
- We use Vimeo to embed videos and provide some video elements in websites. You can find Vimeo’s privacy policy at https://vimeo.com/privacy.
- We use Google Analytics for statistical performance analysis. This information is aggregated and therefore anonymous. Google’s privacy policy is at https://policies.google.com/privacy. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- We use Cloudflare for content delivery and internet security. You can find Cloudflare’s privacy policy at https://www.cloudflare.com/security-policy.
Control your cookie settings
If you want, you can block cookies by changing the settings on your browser – we have set out below links to the 'Help' pages of some major browsers which explain how you can do this. Blocking the cookies we use may have an adverse impact upon the presentation of some or all of our website.
General guidance on how to manage your cookies can be found here:
Specific guidance on how to manage cookie options for common website browsers can be found here: