Last Updated: December 2023

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser of the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. A cookie will usually contain the name of the domain it originated from, the “lifespan” of the cookie and a unique identifier (usually a randomly generated number).

What type of cookies do we use?

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 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 in the table below.

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control.  These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services such as web traffic analysis services.  These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies: 

• Google Analytics
• Google DoubleClick
• Wistia 
• Acquia Lift

To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you can visit the Manage Cookies page (linked in the footer of the website) to manage the use of these types of cookies.

You may block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to turn off or disable cookies.  However, if you block all cookies you may not be able to view content or access all or parts of our website.  With the exception of essential cookies, all other cookies will expire after 90 days.