Use of cookies
Some of our web pages use cookies. A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer’s hard disk so that the website can remember who you are.
When you access our website we send you an encrypted session cookie. A session cookie is a temporary cookie that only remains in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site. This cookie is used to validate your access to different parts of the site.
Disabling/ enabling cookies
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. You can also manually remove cookies from your system. For more information on disabling and enabling cookies, you should search for or lookup ‘cookies’ in your operating system documentation.
Transparency – our use of cookies
Cookies set by us
When you access our website we send you the following cookies.
Name of cookie | Expiry | Data stored | Purpose |
wpc_* | 1 day | Randomly generated alphanumeric values. No personal data is used. | Site security. No personal or sensitive data is stored. |
cookies_accepted
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1 year | ‘accepted’ string. No personal data is used. | Records user consent to use of cookies. No personal or sensitive data is stored. |
Third-party cookies
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help provide statistics for how the site is used.
Name of cookie | Expiry | Data stored | Purpose |
_ga | 2 years | Google Analytics Unique ID number | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. No personal or sensitive data is stored. |
_ga_*
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2 years | Alphanumeric value. | Used to store and count page views. No personal or sensitive data is stored. |