Cookies are small text files that websites store on your computer to help distinguish you from other users. We use cookies to help us provide you with a better experience when you browse our website and help us to improve our site through monitoring visitor interest and behaviour anonymously.
There are a few different types of cookies:
On our Website we use Persistent and Session cookies. Due to the social media buttons you'll find on our articles and the advertising we use to support the site, you may also receive
Third-party cookies while using the Website.
You may refuse to accept cookies by unchecking the tick box.
Our Website does not store any personal identifiable or sensitive information in its cookie such as names, addresses, email addresses or telephone numbers.
Below are all the cookies used on our website.
User Exeperience:
personalisationGroupsNumberOfVisits: 2 month period cookie so we can personalize content based on unique sessions.
Personalisation Groups Number Of VisitSessionStarted: Counter of pages tracked per session.
PersonalisationGroupsPagesViewed: The Id of pages tracked across all visits in a 2 month period.
hide_cookie_bar: Hides the cookies bar upon landing. 1 day cookie.
Marketing:
_gid: Google Analytics Cookie used to distintiguish users and sessions (no personally identifiable data is collected).
_ga: Used to identify domain and Google Analytics 'UA' number
_gat_UA-103150589-1: Global Google Analytics Object which is used to create and retrieve tracker objects, from which all other methods are invoked.
_hjIncludeInSample: HotJar website heatmap and session recording cookie.
_atuvc: AddThis cookie is created and read by the AddThis social sharing site JavaScript on the client side in order to make sure the user sees the updated count if they share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. No data from that cookie is sent back to AddThis and removing it when disabling cookies would cause unexpected behaviour for users.
_atuvs: This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. This is believed to be a new cookie from AddThis which is not yet documented, but has been categorised on the assumption it serves a similar purpose to other cookies set by the service.
Some third party cookies may be set on your computer by social media websites and advertising networks. These are used to better understand your interests so that they can market more relevant content to you at another time, in much the same way a supermarket loyalty card analyses your shopping bill and will market relevant discount offers to you based on the products you bought. This is called Behavioural Advertising.
If you would like more information about behavioural advertising and how it affects your privacy, please take a look at www.youronlinechoices.com/uk. You can choose to opt-in or out of a variety of different ad networks on this page; www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices or on this page; www.aboutads.info/choices.
How do I change the privacy setting of my browser?
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Browser |
Instructions |
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Internet Explorer |
- Choose "Tools" and then "Internet Options" For more specialised cookie settings click on "Advanced", check the "Override cookie handling" button and modify the settings to suit your requirements. |
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Google Chrome |
- Click on the "Tools" menu and select "Options" Google Chrome allows all cookies by default, but you can restrict the behaviour of first-party and third-party cookies or even block them completely. Click on the Close button when you've finished. |
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Mozilla Firefox |
- Click on "Tools", then "Options" (or "Edit" | "Preferences" on Linux) Choose your preferred settings (You can configure which sites are allowed to set cookies, how long to keep them for, and view and manage your existing cookies.). |
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Safari |
- from the "Home" screen choose "Settings" then "Safari" |
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Opera |
- Go to "Tools" in the main menu In addition to choosing different settings for first-party ("normal") and third-party cookies, you may edit cookie settings on a domain/server basis or even edit individual cookies by clicking the "Manage cookies" button |
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