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We use cookies to maintain your connection to our website. These cookies do not collect or store any personally identifiable information. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may lose some useful functionality.
Some of the cookies we use help us to understand how people use our website. They collect information such as which pages are most visited, how long visitors stay on the site and which features they use. We use this information to improve our website and provide a better user experience.
The cookies that we use, and their purposes, are listed below.
Name |
Description |
Category |
Duration |
__CookieConsentV300 |
A plugin used to comply with EU guidelines. This cookie deals with alerting users of the use of cookies at the time of the first load. It stores the preferences saved by the user and helps drop only those cookies that are consented to by the user. |
Strictly necessary cookie |
90 days |
__cf_bm |
To read and filter requests from bots. |
Strictly necessary cookie |
A few seconds |
_cfuvid |
The _cfuvid cookie is used by Cloudflare to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address for the purpose of enforcing rate limiting rules. |
Strictly necessary cookie |
0 days |
AWSALBCORS |
This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. |
Strictly necessary cookie |
6 days |
AWSALB |
AWS ELB application load balancer |
Strictly necessary cookie |
6 days |
ASP.NET_SessionId |
General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. |
Strictly necessary cookie |
0 days |
__RequestVerificationToken |
This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser. |
Strictly necessary cookie |
0 days |
_gid |
This cookie name is associated 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. |
Performance cookie |
0 days |
_ga_6F6D0WJCPQ |
Used by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device.Used by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device. |
Performance cookie |
0 days |
_ga |
This cookie name is associated 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. |
Performance cookie |
0 days |
_gat |
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. |
Performance cookie |
0 days |
_uetvid |
This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. |
Performance cookie |
0 days |
_gat_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
Google Analytics Cookies |
Performance cookie |
0 days |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
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. |
Targeting cookie |
0 days |