What are Cookies?
Cookies are text files that are placed on to your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently and to collect standard information and track how you use websites for examples the pages you visit.
How we use Cookies
We use cookies to make our website work and to measure how you use our website for instance,
we use language cookies to know what language you would like the web site displayed to you in,
we also use YouTube cookies to embed videos in pages and Google Analytics cookies to track
users’ behaviour whilst on the site, such as which pages you have visited. By understanding how people use our site, we can improve the navigation and content to better meet people’s needs.
The data will not be used to identify any user personally. The cookies we use on our site are:
_hash
These cookies are set to allow us to identify the status of a user on our website and are generally used across the web for things such as log-in routines and shopping baskets.
Expires: 40 days
PHPSESSID
This cookie stores the identifier for your current session in PHP.
Expires: At end of session
CSRF token
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is an attack that forces a user to perform unwanted actions on a website (for example your data could be hijacked and used to perform tasks). This cookie is required to protect users from a CSRF attack and allows us to mask your data.
Expires: At end of session
Google Analytics:
_ga
_gid
_gat
These cookies above are used by Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come from geographically, and the
pages they have visited, the devices and browsers the visitor is using.
How to manage cookies
You can set your browser not to accept cookies. You can also remove cookies from your web
browser. Both these actions are completed through browser settings. To find out more about
cookies and how to manage them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.