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 also allows us to improve our site.

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. You can learn more about managing cookies at About Cookies: http://www.aboutcookies.org.uk/managing-cookies

There are different types of 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 or performance cookies
  
These 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 below:

Cookie Name	Type	Purpose	Expiry
PHPSESSID	Strictly Neccessary	Allows users to login to the management functions of the site	End of browser session
allowCookies	Functionality	Used to manage acceptance of cookie and privacy policy	30 days
_ga	Analytical/Performance	Used to distinguish users	2 years
_gid	Analytical/Performance	Used to distinguish users	24 hours
_gat OR _dc_gtm_	Analytical/Performance	Used to throttle request rate	1 minute
_gac_	Analytical/Performance	Contains campaign related information for the user	90 days
__utma	Analytical/Performance	Used to distinguish users and sessions	2 years from set/update
__utmt	Analytical/Performance	Used to throttle request rate	10 minutes
__utmb	Analytical/Performance	Used to determine new sessions/visits	30 mins from set/update
__utmc	Analytical/Performance	Used to determine new sessions/visits	End of browser session
__utmz	Analytical/Performance	Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site.	6 months from set/update
__utmv	Analytical/Performance	Used to store visitor-level custom variable data.	2 years from set/update

You can 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 website.