Cookies Policy

Cookies Policy

This website uses "cookie" technology. A cookie is a small piece of data or a small text file stored by the browser on your computer, at the request of our server. We may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your personal preferences so you do not have to re-enter them each time you connect to our website – our cookies are not available to other websites.  In particular cookies enable us:

  • to measure visitor traffic to our website and their usage patterns
  • to store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our website according to your individual interests
  • to speed up your searches
  • to recognise you when you return to our website.

The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Name Purpose Activated Expires
Initiated by this website
PHPSESSID The PHPSESSID cookie is native to PHP and enables websites to store serialised state data. It is used to establish a user session and to pass state data via a temporary cookie, which is commonly referred to as a session cookie. (expires when you close your browser) On visit When you close your browser
Initiated by Google Analytics | Read More
_ga Used to distinguish users. On visit After 2 Years
_gat Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. On visit After 30 Minutes
_gid Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named On visit 1 minute
gwcc This cookie allows Google to track any call conversions on mobile devices. For example if a customer is clicking a phone number on the contact us page to dial from their mobile device On visit After 3 Months
Initiated by Facebook | Read More
fr This cookie is used by Facebook for advertising purposes On visit 90 days
datr When you create or login to an account on Facebook cookies are stored on your computer in order for you to remain logged in when revisiting Facebook. The Facebook like button on our website is hosted by Facebook and your browser will send this cookie data to Facebook when creating the button inside your browser. This data is used by Facebook to associate the Facebook like button with your Facebook account. This data is not accessible to us, and is not sent to us by Facebook. More information can be found at Facebook’s privacy policy. On visit 2 Years
sb Share on Facebook button On visit 2 years
c_user The c_user cookie contains the user ID of the currently logged in user. On visit 1 Year
m_pixel_ratio A cookie that enables Facebook to test the functionality of the site. On visit End of session
presence Cookie from Facebook Ads On visit 2 Years
oo to help you opt out of seeing ads from Meta based on your activity on third-party websites On visit 5 Years
usida Collects a combination of the user’s browser and unique identifier, used to tailor advertising to users On visit End of session
x-referer Performance cookie used by Facebook with Facebook Pixel. On visit End of session
xs Facebook cookie used alongside c_user to authenticate user's identity On visit 1 Year
Initiated by Twitter | Read More
_twitter_sess This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media. On visit End of session
d_prefs This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media. On visit 6 Months
guest_id_ads This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media. On visit 2 Years
guest_id_marketing This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media. On visit 2 Years
personalization_id This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media. On visit 2 years
tfw_exp This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media. On visit 14 Days
twid This cookie is set by Twitter when a user accepts Twitter cookies. Twitter uses this cookie to determine whether a user is currently logged in to Twitter. On visit 2 Days
ads_prefs This cookie is set by Twitter when a user accepts Twitter cookies. Twitter uses this cookie for behavioural advertising and analytics. On visit 7 Years
dnt This cookie is set by Twitter when a user accepts Twitter cookies. Twitter uses this cookie to store do-not-track decisions for a user’s Twitter account. On visit 2 Years
auth_token This cookie is set by Twitter when a user accepts Twitter cookies. Twitter uses this cookie for behavioural advertising and analytics. On visit 7 Years
remember_checked_on This cookie is set by Twitter when a user accepts Twitter cookies. Twitter uses this cookie to monitor referral links and login status. On visit 7 Years
Initiated by GOOGLE | Read More
1P_JAR Used to gather website statistics, and track conversion rates. On visit 1 week
APISID This cookie is used by YouTube as part of their embedded functions on other websites On visit 2 Years
CONSENT These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. On visit 1 Year
HSID ‘SID’ and ‘HSID’ which contain digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. The combination of these two cookies allows us to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms that you complete on web pages. On visit 2 Years
NID These cookies are used by Google to store user preferences and information while viewing the pages with Google maps on them. On visit 1 Year
OTZ Google analytics cookie used for website traffic info On visit 1 Month
SAPISID enable Google to collect user information for videos hosted by YouTube On visit 2 Years
SID ‘SID’ and ‘HSID’ which contain digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. The combination of these two cookies allows us to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms that you complete on web pages. On visit End of session
SIDCC Security cookie to protect users data from unauthorised access On visit  
SSID This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website On visit End of session

What are my choices regarding cookies

If you'd like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.

Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

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