Often it's useful for a website to remember certain details about your visit, like settings you've changed. Most websites also collect anonymous usage data in order to improve their visitors' experience.
A cookie is a small text file that's sent by the site you visit and stored on your computer so that the site can retrieve it the next time you visit. Because your computer doesn't share any personally identifiable data with a website, browsers use cookies to remember users' preferences in a regulated and secure way.
Cookies are designed to keep your data and computer secure:
The main function of cookies is to help make the user's browsing experience as smooth as possible. Different types of cookies do this in different ways.
These allow sites to remember some of the user's actions during a single browser session and they expire when you close your browser window. For example, they're used to remember what you've put in a shopping basket.
These are stored on a user's device between browser sessions to remember their preferences or actions across the site. For example, any settings they change during a browsing session will be remembered when they return to the same site later.
These cookies are set by the same website that you're visiting, and can only be viewed by that site.
These are set by a domain other than the one being visited. A website might use an embedded video from YouTube, for example, which might set its own cookies.
Our website uses:
Analytics and customisation cookies: These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our websites are being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customise our websites for you. We us first party cookies to collect information about how visitors use the site in order to help us improve and customise it for you. They're first party because only this domain sets them and no other website has access to the data.
Social networking cookies: These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our websites through third party social networking and other websites.
Cookie |
Name |
Purpose |
More information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Session cookie | PHPSESSID | To provide users with basic website functionality during their visit. | |
| Google Analytics | _ga _gat _gid |
We use these cookies to collect information, in an entirely anonymous format, about how visitors use the site. | Click here for an overview of privacy at Google. |
| Hubspot | __hssrc __hstc Hubspotutk __hssc |
To track visitors on our website and help us improve and tailor the information that we provide. |
We think cookies make the Internet a better place. They're safe, anonymous, and give people an easier, faster experience on websites. Cookies let sites remember if you wanted to save certain details, show developers the pages no-one ever visits, and recall what you've put in your shopping basket.
If you continue browsing this site, we'll assume you're happy with our use of cookies. But if you'd rather opt out, we've found some helpful instructions here.