Cookies in use on this site
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.
We provide you with a ‘Cookie Pop Up’ to enable you to choose if you want to consent to any cookies in addition to the Strictly Necessary Cookies which we use to run our site.
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.
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/retargeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you visit and have visited, and the links that you follow when browsing the Internet. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising we show you, both during and after your visit, 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:
Strictly necessary cookies
| Cookie Name | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Cookie Script Consent | 1 Month | This cookie is used by Cookie-Script.com service to remember visitor cookie consent preferences. It is necessary for Cookie-Script.com cookie banner to work properly |
| Crumb | Session | Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF) |
Performance cookies
| Cookie Name | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| ss_cvr | 1 year 1 month | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site |
| ss_cvt | 30 minutes | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site |
Targeting cookies
| Cookie Name | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 6 Months | This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites;it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface. |
| YSC | Session | This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks, affiliated websites, social media sites 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.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 2 years. We use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our sites. A cookie is a small file which helps us to analyse web traffic and allows us to respond to you as an individual, tailoring our operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
A cookie does not give us access to your computer or the data stored on it. This policy provides detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them.