To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
What cookies do we use?
| Cookie | Third Party Provider | Category of Cookie | Description of what Cookie does / Purpose | Duration of cookie | Further information |
| _Utma | Google Inc | Analytical / Targeting | The _Utma cookie is part of Google Analytics and is primarily used to track visits to any site which uses Google Analytics. _Utma stores the number of visits made from your device, the time of the first visit, the previous visit and the current visit. This cookie does not contain any personal information other than the IP address of your device. This is a third party cookie. | Persistent | See Google’s help pages and privacy policy: • Google’s Privacy Policy • Google Analytics Help pages |
| _Utmb | Google Inc | Targeting / Performance | The _Utmb cookie is part of Google Analytics. _Utmb and _Utmc are used to check approximately how long you stay on any site which uses Google Analytics: when a visit starts, and approximately ends. This cookie does not contain any personal information other than the IP address of your device. This is a third party cookie. | Persistent | See Google’s help pages and privacy policy: • Google’s Privacy Policy • Google Analytics Help pages |
| _Utmc | Google Inc | Targeting / Performance | The _Utmc cookie is part of Google Analytics. _Utmb and _Utmc are used to check approximately how long you stay on any site which uses Google Analytics: when a visit starts, and approximately ends. This cookie does not contain any personal information other than the IP address of your device. This is a third party cookie. | Persistent | See Google’s help pages and privacy policy: • Google’s Privacy Policy • Google Analytics Help pages |
| _Utmv | Google Inc | Targeting / Performance | The _Utmv cookie is part of Google Analytics. It contains no specific customer data other than the IP address of your device, but is used to record Custom variables for segmentation. This is a third party cookie. | Persistent | See Google’s help pages and privacy policy: • Google’s Privacy Policy • Google Analytics Help pages |
Example:
A number of our pages use cookies to remember:
- your display preferences, such as contrast colour settings or font size
- if you have already replied to a survey pop-up that asks you if the content was helpful or not (so you won’t be asked again)
- if you have agreed (or not) to our use of cookies on this site
Also, some videos embedded in our pages use a cookie to anonymously gather statistics on how you got there and what videos you visited.
Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.
The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.
How to control cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.