What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
Cookies do not contain personally identifiable information such as your home address, telephone number or credit card details.
By using our website, you are agreeing to our Privacy and Cookies Policies and consent to the use of cookies by us as described in these policies.
What cookies do we use?
We use three types of cookies on our websites
Session cookies that are deleted after each visit.
Persistent cookies that remain in place across multiple visits to our sites.
Third party cookies that are used by our approved business partners
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 | Type |
_utma | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site, which we use to help improve it. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. | Persistent |
_utmb | Persistent | |
_utmc | Session | |
_utmz | Persistent | |
X-Zeus-Mapping-3ade68de | The purpose of this cookie is to enable the front ends of the web server to cache information about the site that is being served, rather than having to lookup the details from the back end database each time, to improve the efficiency of serving the requests | Session |
Managing your cookies
You can 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. You can delete cookies stored in your browser by using a function in your browser. Whilst this does not mean you won't collect cookies in the future, it gives you freedom to delete your cookies after you have been online.
You'll find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org, which gives details on how to delete cookies from your computer. For information on how to do this on your mobile phone browser, please see your handset manual.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.