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 allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

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.

Analytical/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 cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it 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:

Cookie

Description

Purpose


PHPSESSID


PHP Session Cookie

This cookie is essential for our site as it
enables us to:



Allow you to use our site in a way that makes your
browsing experience more convenient, for example, by allowing you to store
items in an electronic shopping basket between visits. If you register with
us or complete our online forms, we will use cookies to remember your details
during your current visit, and any future visits provided the cookie was not
deleted in the interim.

 


PWIK_SESSID

_pk_id
_pk_ref
_pk_ses
pwik_auth

 


PWIK/Matomo Analytics Cookie

This cookie is essential for our site as it
enables us to:



Allows 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.



 

 

 

 

 

_gat_UA-6134180-1

__utma
__gid
__utmz
__ga
__utmc

 

 

Google
Analytics Cookie

 

 

This cookie is essential for our site as it
enables us to:



Allows 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.




__cfduid


Cloudflare Session Cookie

This cookie is essential for our site as it
enables us to:



Used by our content delivery partner, Cloudflare to
help recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to
optimise delivery of our website content, such as images, videos and text to
ensure you get the best possible experience whilst browsing.

 


wordpress_test_cookie



 

WordPress Testing
Cookie


This cookie is essential for our site as it enables us to:



Used by our website backend system, WordPress, to check
to see if cookie support is available on the browser that you are using. This then helps WordPress to select the
best possible method of storing your session information, which allow us to make
your browsing experience more convenient, for example, by allowing you to
store items in an electronic shopping basket between visits. If you register
with us or complete our online forms, we will use cookies to remember your
details during your current visit, and any future visits provided the cookie was
not deleted in the interim.

 

 

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks 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 immediately after the browser window/tab has been closed.

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