Cookies
What are cookies?
Most websites you visit will use cookies in order to improve your user experience. Cookies enable a website to ‘remember’ you, either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’).
A cookie consists of information downloaded to your computer and stored on the computer’s hard drive. Any cookies that we use will not identify you personally; they consist of statistical data. This statistical data identifies no personal details whatsoever.
Cookies are sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.
These are some of the ways in which cookies can improve services for you:
- recognising that you may already have given a username and password, so you don't need to do it for every web page you request;
- ensuring you don't have to give the same information several times during one task;
- allowing for the analysis of anonymous data, for example the number of users accessing a service; and
- through this analysis, helping to ensure popular services can be made easier and faster to use.
What’s in a cookie?
A cookie is a simple text file stored on your device. It contains some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name, and some digits and numbers.
How do we use cookies?
This website and some of the tools and services it links to use a number of cookies. Some of these cookies are essential to using the services.
The cookies are classified in four categories, upon their functions:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies
- Performance Cookies
- Tracking Cookies
- Video Cookies
Strictly Necessary Cookies
| Name of cookie | Typical content | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| cookiesjsr | You are asked for your permission to use several services (including those from third parties) that require data to be saved in your browser | 1 year |
When you visited this website for the first time, you were asked for your permission to use several services (including those from third parties) that require data to be saved in your browser (cookies, local storage). Your decisions about each service (allow, deny) are stored in this cookie and are reused each time you visit this website.
Performance Cookies
Google Analytics & Tag Manager Cookies
Further information on cookies set by Google Analytics
To help us meet the needs of our users, we use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site.
Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the website, how you got here and what you click on. Through this, we cannot identify who you are and do not collect or store your personal details such as your name or address.
We do not allow Google to use or share any information we collect with other third parties.
| Name of cookie | Typical content | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Used to distinguish users. | 2 years |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users. | 24 hours |
| _gat | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_ |
1 minute |
Further information on cookies set by Google Analytics
Tracking Cookies
Social Media cookies
We are active on a range of social media platforms. Please note we have no control over the use of cookies on these third party sites. For more information on the privacy policies for the social media sites please click on the relevant links below:
Video Cookies
We use Vimeo as our default video player on the site which is a video sharing service that helps to add rich media on the site and increase its visibility.
How can you manage cookies?
You can easily adjust the cookie settings on your computer or specifically for this site if you wish. You can modify your web browser so that it notifies you when cookies are sent to it, or you can refuse cookies altogether. You can also delete cookies that have already been set. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how you can restrict or block cookies. Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org to find out how to do this on a variety of desktop browsers.
If you are using a mobile phone and would like information on how to restrict or block cookies, refer to your handset manual.
Please be aware that restricting these cookies may impact on the features available to you and the way our website works for you.