Cookie Policy

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.

Information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them is shown below:

Platform	Cookie Name	Cookie Age	What it does
Pardot	visitor_id<accountid>	Persistent	The visitor cookie includes a unique visitor ID and the unique identifier for your account. For example, the cookie name visitor_id12345 stores the visitor ID 1010101010. The account identifier, 12345, makes sure that the visitor is tracked on the correct business unit. The visitor value is the visitor_id in your business unit. This cookie is set for visitors by the Pardot tracking code.
Pardot	pi_opt_in<accountid>	Persistent	If Tracking Opt-in preferences is enabled, the pi_opt_in cookie is set with a true or false value when the visitor opts in or out of tracking. If a visitor opts in, the value is set to true, and the visitor is cookied and tracked. If the visitor opts out or ignores the opt-in banner, the opt-in cookie value is set to false. The visitor cookie is disabled, and the visitor isn’t tracked.
Pardot	visitor_id<accountid>-hash	Persistent	The visitor hash cookie contains the account ID and stores a unique hash. For example, the cookie name visitor_id12345-hash stores the hash “855c3697d9979e78ac404c4ba2c66533”, and the account ID is 12345. This cookie is a security measure to make sure that a malicious user can’t fake a visitor and access corresponding prospect information.
Pardot	lpv<accountid>	Session	This LPV cookie is set to keep us from tracking multiple page views on a single asset over a 30-minute session. For example, if a visitor reloads a landing page several times over a 30-minute period, this cookie keeps each reload from being tracked as a page view.
Pardot	pardot	Session	A session cookie named pardot is set in your browser while you’re logged in as a user or when a visitor accesses a form, landing page, or page with Pardot tracking code. The cookie denotes an active session and isn’t used for tracking.
AddThis	__atuvc	Persistent	This cookie remains on a computer, unless it expires or the cookie cache is cleared. It tracks visitor activity, such as page views, and can correlate that activity with personally identifiable information voluntarily submitted through forms on this website or gathered by other visitor-initiated means
AddThis	__atuvs	Persistent	This cookie remains on a computer, unless it expires or the cookie cache is cleared. It tracks visitor activity, such as page views, and can correlate that activity with personally identifiable information voluntarily submitted through forms on this website or gathered by other visitor-initiated means
AddThis	loc	1 year	This is a geo-location cookie, so we know approximately where people sharing information are located
AddThis	mus	1 year	Unclassified
AddThis	ouid	1 year	Unclassified
AddThis	uvc	1 year	Detects how often the social sharing service, AddThis, encounters the same user.
AddThis	__atssc	Persistent	This cookie remains on a computer, unless it expires or the cookie cache is cleared. It tracks visitor activity, such as page views, and can correlate that activity with personally identifiable information voluntarily submitted through forms on this website or gathered by other visitor-initiated means
AdRoll	__adroll	13 months	Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads.
AppNexus	anj	3 months	Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads.
AppNexus	sess	1 month	The sess cookie contains a single non-unique value: “1”. It is used by the Platform to test whether a browser is configured to accept cookies from AppNexus.
AppNexus	uuid2	6 months	This cookie contains a unique randomly-generated value that enables the Platform to distinguish browsers and devices. It is matched against information – such as advertising interest segments and histories of ads shown in the browser or device – provided by clients or other third parties and stored on the Platform. This information is used by clients to select advertisements for delivery by the Platform, and to measure the performance of, and attribute payment for, those advertisements. In addition, to enable clients to use non-PII they collect outside the Platform or acquire from other third parties, this cookie is sometimes matched to clients’ or other third parties’ cookies that contain such non-PII.
AppNexus	uuid2 (opt out)	6 months	When a user opts out of having the Platform used to select ads based on online behavior, the unique value in uuid2 is deleted and replaced with the non-unique value “-1”.
BidSwitch	c	1 year	Regulates synchronisation of user identification and exchange of user data between various ad services.
BidSwitch	tuuid	1 year	Registers whether or not the user has consented to the use of cookies.
BidSwitch	tuuid_last_update	1 year	Unclassified
BidSwitch	tuuid_lu	1 year	Unclassified
Click.co.uk	CONSENT	1 year	Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain
Disqus	uid	1 year	They track which of the social networking options you use (email a friend, send to Facebook etc.) This information is only collected in aggregate form so we can tell which are the most popular tools.
DoubleClick	__ar_v4	Persistent	Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.
DoubleClick	IDE	1 year	Optimises ad display based on the user’s movement combined and various advertiser bids for displaying user ads.
Facebook	fr	3 months	Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.
Google Adwords	NID	6 months	Google uses this to help customise adverts on Google properties, such as Google Search. For example, we use such cookies to remember your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser’s adverts or search results and your visits to an advertiser’s website. This helps us to show you customised adverts on Google.
Google Analytics	_ga	Set by webmaster.	This cookie name is asssociated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.
Google Analytics	_gat	Session	This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes.
Google Analytics	_gat_UA-45793140-1	Session	This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. Its a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.
Google Analytics	_gid	Session	This cookie name is asssociated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.
Google Analytics 4 (GA4)	_ga	2 years	Used to distinguish users.
Google Analytics 4 (GA4)	_ga_<container-id>	2 years	Used to persist session state.
NR Data	JSESSIONID	Session	JSESSIONID is a cookie in J2EE web application which is used in session tracking. Preserves users states across page requests.
OpenX	i	1 year	Registers anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user’s movement on websites that use the same ad network.
Ruler Analytics	_ra	Persistent	To improve functionality and to help measure the amount of page visits and traffic sources our site receives, we use a monitoring service provided by Ruler Analytics. For opt-out information, please contact [email protected] or visit https://www.ruleranalytics.com
RLCDN	ck1	180 days	Collects anonymous data related to the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads.
RLCDN	rlas3	180 days	Collects anonymous data related to the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads.
RLCDN	rtn1-z	180 days	Unclassified

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.

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Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 1 day.

For more information please contact [email protected]