Cookies
Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer’s hard drive by websites you visit to enable the website to ‘remember’ who you are. In general, cookies are only visible to the website that serves them, not to other websites. ‘Serves’ means places on your computer’s hard drive.
We use the cookies on this website to ‘remember’ information so that it can be passed from page to page and to collect website statistics. For example, when registering for our newsletters and email alerts, the information you put into the form on any page is stored on the webserver, and a cookie is used to point to that information. When you click ‘next’ to go to the next page of the form, our website reads the cookie which points back to the stored information so that it can be accessed by our website.
Cookies change and their names and descriptions are not very user-friendly for most people, so what follows is a list of typical cookies set by our site. If you want to see the cookies currently used on the website, they should be visible through your browser. (Please see below for instructions.)
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google reCAPTCHA | rc::a, rc::c | Set by the Google reCAPTCHA service to identify bots and protect the website against malicious spam attacks. | Never | Necessary |
| WordPress | wpEmojiSettingsSupports | WordPress sets this cookie when a user interacts with emojis on a WordPress site. It helps determine if the user’s browser can display emojis properly. | Session | Necessary |
| Google Analytics | _ga_*, _ga | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Analytics |
| Hotjar | _hjSessionUser_*, _hjSession_* | Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID, which persists in the Hotjar User ID, which is unique to that site. | 1 year | Analytics |
| lastExternalReferrer | lastExternalReferrer | Never | Analytics | |
| lastExternalReferrerTime | lastExternalReferrerTime | Never | Analytics | |
| Google Ads | _gcl_ls | Never | Analytics | |
| TikTok | _ttp | TikTok set this cookie to track and improve the performance of advertising campaigns, as well as to personalise the user experience. | 3 months | Advertisement |
| Facebook Pixel | _fbp | Facebook sets this cookie to store and track interactions. | 3 months | Advertisement |
| TikTok | _tt_enable_cookie, ttcsid_*, ttcsid | TikTok set this cookie to collect data about behaviour and activities on the website and to measure the effectiveness of the advertising. | 3 months | Advertisement |
| Google Tag Manager | _gcl_au | Google Tag Manager sets this cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | 3 months | Advertisement |
| DoubleClick | test_cookie | Set by doubleclick.net and used to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies. | 15 minutes | Advertisement |
| TikTok | tt_sessionId, tt_pixel_session_index, tt_appInfo | Session | Advertisement | |
| Hotjar | hjViewportId | Session | Advertisement |
