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 more efficiently, and sometimes provide useful information to the owners of the site.
There are some cookies necessary to this site functioning, such as interacting with our accessibility toolbar. These cookies will usually remove themselves when you close your browsing session. More information can be found in the ‘Necessary cookies’ section.
We use some additional cookies, such as Google Analytics, to help us gather information and improve the website. You have the option to deny use of these cookies; more information can be found in the ‘Additional cookies’ section.
The following cookies are necessary to our site functioning.
Cookie
Purpose
Expiry
cookie-popup
Keeps track of whether you choose to 'Use necessary cookies' or 'Allow all cookies'
1 year
Necessary accessibility cookies
The following necessary cookies allow the functions within our accessibility toolbar to work optimally.
Cookie
Purpose
Expiry
accessibility-controls
Records option regarding additional cookies.
End of browsing session
saveFontSize
Allows the website (CMS) to record if the user’s font size selection.
End of browsing session
contrast-mode
Allows the website (CMS) to record the user’s contrast mode selection.
End of browsing session
googtrans
Allows the language of page content to be changed and records the language selected.
End of browsing session
Additional cookies
The following third-party cookies are used for analytical and media purposes.
If you do not accept use of these additional cookies, some third-party media content – such as YouTube, Vimeo or Google Maps – may not load on this website.
Analytics cookies
In order to help us to improve the content, format and structure of this website we record and analyse how visitors use the using Google Analytics.
We also use Google Search Console to monitor, measure and optimise the presence of our website on Google Search results.
Persists session state for newer versions of Google Analytics.
2 years
__utma
Distinguishes user and session for Google Analytics.
2 years
__utmb
Determines new session or visit for Google Analytics.
30 minutes
__utmc
Determines new session or visit for Google Analytics.
End of browsing session
__utmz
Stores traffic source for Google Analytics.
6 months
Embed cookies
We may use embeds from YouTube, Google Maps or Vimeo on our site to display content. That content uses the following third-party cookies. Where possible, we will use privacy-oriented settings to ensure as few cookies as possible require consent.
These additional cookies that remain, and the content from which they stem, will not display on the site unless you choose to ‘Accept additional cookies’.
Cookie
Source
Purpose
Expiry
CONSENT
YouTube (.youtube-nocookie.com)
Google cookie tracking consent with analytics and/or ad integration.
2 years
CONSENT
Google Maps (.google.com)
Google cookie tracking consent with analytics and/or ad integration.
2 years
__cf_bm
Vimeo (.vimeo.com)
Vimeo ClouldFlare layer which filters out requests from bots.
30 minutes
Captcha cookies
We use Google reCAPTCHA in order to verify whether or not you are a human when submitting data to the website. Most of the time, this will only be present on pages containing forms.
