Cookie Policy

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES  

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. 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

Name

Purpose

More information

csrfmiddlewaretoken

CSRF Token

This cookie protects against Cross Site Request forgery.

Every POST request the site makes is matched against this token to ensure that the computer making the request is the same as the one using the website.

session

Session Key

This cookie relates to the users session, no identifiable information is available by this method.

This is essential to the correct operation of the website and to identify the user as a member allowing access to member services and completing member information, where appropriate.

_ga, _gid, __utma, __utmc, __utmz

Google Analytics

These cookies are used to track statistics through the website.

See - https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage - for more information

__cfduid

Cloudflare ID

This is used by Cloudflare, who host the jquery plugin on the website.

See -https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170156-What-does-the-Cloudflare-cfduid-cookie-do- for more information.

 

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 after:

Session cookies: 2 weeks (unless an activity is started and not completed in this time, such as an application)

Persistent cookies: 6 months or 12 months