Cookies explained
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone browser from a website’s computer and is stored on your computer’s or mobile phone’s hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, which the site can then access when you visit it again to track online traffic flows, for example. A website cannot access cookies sent by other websites.
How this website uses cookies
We use cookies to make sure our website work effectively and to improve your user experience on it. Information supplied by cookies can help us work out how you use our site; for example, which pages you look at, and whether you experience any errors. We also use cookies to remember your preferences and understand how you interact with our site so that we can enhance your navigation experience.
Below is a list of the cookies that might be used on our website
Google Universal Analytics (_ga persistent): it is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.
Google Universal Analytics (_gid persistent): It is used to distinguish users.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Changing cookie settings in your web browser
Each web browser has its own way of managing cookies. You can block or remove cookies yourself by altering the settings of your browser to block cookies or to send a warning notice before a cookie is stored on your computer. These changes will apply to all websites that you visit (unless you choose to block cookies from particular sites).
You should be aware that any preferences will be lost if you delete cookies. If you block cookies completely, many websites will not work properly and some functionality on these websites will not work at all. We do not recommend turning cookies off when using our websites for these reasons.
Managing analytics cookies
Our website uses analytics tracking, and you can opt out of these cookies by clicking on the links shown below.
Please note that this will take you to the relevant third party’s website, and will generate a ‘no thanks’ cookie, which will stop those third parties from setting any further cookies; these changes will then apply to all websites that you visit.
Note that disabling analytics cookies prevents us from being able to collect information on how visitors use our website, which in turn limits our ability to improve the online experience.