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What are cookies?
For most websites to work properly, they need to collect certain basic information on its users. To do this, a website will create and store files known as cookies – which are small text and/or numerical files – on a users’ device and/or browsers.
Cookies do a lot of different jobs which make your experience of the Internet much smoother and more interactive. For instance, they are used to remember your preferences on sites you visit often, to remember your user ID and to help you navigate between pages more efficiently. They also help ensure that the advertisements that you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
Much, though not all, of the data that they collect is anonymous, though some of it is designed to detect browsing patterns and approximate geographical location to improve user experience.
What types of cookies do we use?
Broadly speaking, there are four types of cookie: strictly necessary cookies, performance cookies, functionality cookies and targeting or advertising cookies.
- Functional cookies enable users to navigate around our website, use its features and customise how a website looks for them: they can remember login details, language preferences and regions, and can be used to provide services that are more personal
- Statistical cookies collect anonymous data on how visitors use our website; they can’t track visitors, and are only used to improve performance and how the website works.
- Marketing cookies track your browsing activities on the website to help use deliver advertisements, which are relevant, or to limit the number of times you see an advert. We can use these cookies to chart the effectiveness of an ad campaign by tracking ‘clicks’. Normally administered by a third party, these cookies can track your activities across a number of websites and this information may be shared amongst other advertisers.
- Third Party Cookies are utilised on our websites mainly for the purposes of understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
Additionally, these cookies break down into two further sub-types;
- Persistent cookies remain on a user’s device for a set period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.
- Session cookies are temporary. They allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.
When is your consent required for cookies?
The rules around use of cookies are defined within the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) which requires that:
- We tell you what cookies we use;
- What these cookies are doing and why; and
- Ask for your consent to store any cookies on your device, which are not essential.
Any cookies that are not defined as ‘strictly necessary’ to provide the services across our website require your consent. Cookies deemed as helpful or convenient but not essential require clear and positive consent from you.
When you visit our website for the first time, we ask for your consent to store non-essential cookies on your device. You can update your cookie preferences at any time by clicking here. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
HubSpot
Marketing/Tracking, Statistics, Functional
HubSpot
Marketing/Tracking, Statistics, Functional
Usage
We use HubSpot for marketing automation (automated email marketing). Read more
Sharing data
For more information, please read the HubSpot Privacy Statement.
Marketing/Tracking
Name
Expiration
Function
Statistics
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Functional
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Hotjar
Statistics, Functional
Hotjar
Statistics, Functional
Usage
We use Hotjar for heat maps and screen recordings. Read more
Sharing data
For more information, please read the Hotjar Privacy Statement.
Statistics
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Functional
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Purpose pending investigation
Name
Expiration
Function
WordPress
Functional
WordPress
Functional
Usage
We use WordPress for website development. Read more
Sharing data
This data is not shared with third parties.
Functional
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Google Analytics
Statistics
Google Analytics
Statistics
Usage
We use Google Analytics for website statistics. Read more
Sharing data
For more information, please read the Google Analytics Privacy Statement.
LinkedIn
Statistics, Marketing/Tracking, Functional
Statistics, Marketing/Tracking, Functional
Usage
We use LinkedIn for display of recent social posts and/or social share buttons. Read more
Sharing data
For more information, please read the LinkedIn Privacy Statement.
Statistics
Name
Expiration
Function
Marketing/Tracking
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Functional
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Wordfence
Functional
Wordfence
Functional
Usage
We use Wordfence for security and fraud prevention. Read more
Sharing data
For more information, please read the Wordfence Privacy Statement.
Functional
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
YouTube
Marketing/Tracking, Functional
YouTube
Marketing/Tracking, Functional
Usage
We use YouTube for video display. Read more
Sharing data
For more information, please read the YouTube Privacy Statement.
Marketing/Tracking
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Google Adsense
Marketing/Tracking
Google Adsense
Marketing/Tracking
Usage
We use Google Adsense for showing advertisements. Read more
Sharing data
For more information, please read the Google Adsense Privacy Statement.
Marketing/Tracking
Name
Expiration
Function
Google DoubleClick
Marketing/Tracking
Google DoubleClick
Marketing/Tracking
Usage
We use Google DoubleClick for cross-channel advertising. Read more
Sharing data
For more information, please read the Google DoubleClick Privacy Statement.
Marketing/Tracking
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Complianz
Functional
Complianz
Functional
Usage
We use Complianz for cookie consent management. Read more
Sharing data
This data is not shared with third parties. For more information, please read the Complianz Privacy Statement.
Functional
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
WP Engine
Functional
WP Engine
Functional
Usage
We use WP Engine for website hosting. Read more
Sharing data
For more information, please read the WP Engine Privacy Statement.
Functional
Name
Expiration
Function
Miscellaneous
Statistics, Marketing/Tracking
Miscellaneous
Statistics, Marketing/Tracking
Usage
Sharing data
Sharing of data is pending investigation
Purpose pending investigation
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Statistics
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Name
Expiration
Function
Marketing/Tracking
Name
Expiration
Function
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