Cookies Policy
To enhance your experience on our website and social media platforms we use ‘cookies’. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or device if you agree.
We use the following types of 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 an online payment.
- 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.
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 | Expiry Duration | Expiry Unit |
| Strictly Necessary Cookie | session_UUID | This cookie is generated as part of the sign-in process and used to defend against Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) | 0 | Days |
| Strictly Necessary Cookie | OptanonAlertBoxClosed | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. | 1 | Years |
| Strictly Necessary Cookie | session_WPID | This cookie is generated as part of the sign-in process and used to defend against Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) | 0 | Days |
| Strictly Necessary Cookie | OptanonConsent | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | 0 | Days |
| Strictly Necessary Cookie | OptanonConsent | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | 1 | Years |
| Strictly Necessary Cookie | _conv_s | Convert AB testing | 0 | Days |
| Strictly Necessary Cookie | _conv_v | This cookie is the visitor-centric cookie that has a lifetime of max 6 months from the last update time. | 6 | Months |
| Strictly Necessary Cookie | _conv_sptest | Convert AB testing | 0 | Days |
| Strictly Necessary Cookie | _conv_check_cookies | This cookie name is associated with Convert Insight which is used to manage user’s cookie preferences. | 4 | Years |
| Strictly Necessary Cookie | session_CFID | This cookie is generated as part of the sign-in process and used to defend against Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) | 0 | Days |
| Strictly Necessary Cookie | wpcf7_guest_user_id | This cookie name is associated with the Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress which is used to assign a temporary anonymous ID to guest users and ensure the correct functioning of contact forms. | 0 | Days |
| Performance Cookies | _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | NAUsed by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device. | 1 | Years |
| Performance Cookies | _conv_r | This cookie name is used to hold the referral data for the current visitor, including source name, referral medium, and referrer search terms. It is overwritten each time the visitor comes from a new referrer. | 0 | Days |
| Performance Cookies | _clck | This cookie is related to Microsoft Clarity analytics service. It is used to collect information about how visitors interact with the website, which helps in creating reports and improving the site. | 0 | Days |
| Performance Cookies | _clck | 1 | Years | |
| Performance Cookies | _clck | 1 | Years | |
| Performance Cookies | _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | NAUsed by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device. | 1 | Years |
| Performance Cookies | _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which 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._ga | 1 | Years |
| Performance Cookies | _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | NAUsed by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device. | 1 | Years |
| Performance Cookies | _clsk | Used by Microsoft Clarity to connect multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording. | 0 | Days |
| Functional Cookies | __cf_bm | This is a CloudFoundry cookie | 0 | Days |
| Targeting cookies | AWSALB | AWS ELB application load balancerUsed to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came. | 6 | Days |
| Targeting cookies | AWSALBCORS | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing.Used to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came. | 6 | Days |
| Targeting cookies | _gcl_au | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services For more information about Google’s processing of your personal data, please consult Google’s Privacy & Terms site. | 2 | Months |
| Targeting cookies | _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | 2 | Months |
| Targeting cookies | li_gc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active LinkedIn profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 5 | Months |
| Targeting cookies | YSC | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | 0 | Days |
| Targeting cookies | 4hr4vv_pastviews | Woobox is a marketing platform that offers a variety of promotional services such as sweepstakes, contests, and polls to engage with audiences. | 0 | Days |
| Targeting cookies | __Secure-xxxxxxx | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | 0 | Days |
| Targeting cookies | lidc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active LinkedIn profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 0 | Days |
| Targeting cookies | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos | 5 | Months |
| Targeting cookies | 4hr4vv_visit | Woobox is a marketing platform that offers a variety of promotional services such as sweepstakes, contests, and polls to engage with audiences. | 0 | Days |
| Targeting cookies | _GRECAPTCHA | This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer’s adverts appear. | 5 | Months |
| Targeting cookies | ci_session | Woobox is a marketing platform that offers a variety of promotional services such as sweepstakes, contests, and polls to engage with audiences. | 0 | Days |
| Targeting cookies | bcookie | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active LinkedIn profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 1 | Years |
| Targeting cookies | 28frwd_visit | Woobox is a marketing platform that offers a variety of promotional services such as sweepstakes, contests, and polls to engage with audiences. | 0 | Days |
| Targeting cookies | pugyny_pastviews | Woobox is a marketing platform that offers a variety of promotional services such as sweepstakes, contests, and polls to engage with audiences. | 0 | Days |
| Targeting cookies | 28frwd_pastviews | Woobox is a marketing platform that offers a variety of promotional services such as sweepstakes, contests, and polls to engage with audiences. | 0 | Days |
| Targeting cookies | VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | 5 | Months |
| Targeting cookies | visitor_id | This is a cookie pattern that appends a unique identifier for a website visitor, used for tracking purposes. The cookies in this domain have a lifespan of 10 years. | 1 | Years |
| Targeting cookies | pugyny_visit | Woobox is a marketing platform that offers a variety of promotional services such as sweepstakes, contests, and polls to engage with audiences. | 0 | Days |
| Other Cookies | _conv_t | 0 | Days | |
| Other Cookies | tomlyonshaw-59976_live_u2main | 2 | Days | |
| Other Cookies | tomlyonshaw-59976_live_u2main.sig | 2 | Days | |
| Other Cookies | tomlyonshaw-59976_u1main | 0 | Days | |
| Other Cookies | nevercache-b39818 | 0 | Days |
With the exception of essential cookies, which are set automatically, our website allows you to choose which cookies you want to accept.
You can alternatively 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 website.
This Policy was last updated 5th January 2024.
