Cookie policy
What’s a cookie?
A cookie is a text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device to make your user experience more efficient and to improve our site. Certain cookies are required for the site to function properly. We may use session Cookies (deleted when you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until deleted).
The following cookies are used on our site:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies − These cookies are essential for the site to function properly. Without them we cannot provide the services you have asked for. For example, remembering your login details to secure areas of the site and some preferences.
- Performance/Analytical Cookies − These cookies collect information anonymously on how visitors use our site. This helps us to view the number of visitors, how and when they use the site. For example, we use Google Analytics and the information is only used to improve our website and its services.
- Functionality Cookies − These cookies remember you when you return to our website. We can personalise our content for you. For example, greet you by name and remember some of your preferences such as your region or language.
- Marketing Cookies − These cookies allow you to share what you have been doing on marketing platforms such as LinkedIn and Twitter. Please note these cookies are not in our control and you will need to refer to the respective privacy policies for how their cookies work.
| Name | Purpose | More information |
|---|---|---|
| _gid | This cookie is essential for our site to estimate our audience size and usage pattern. | Google Analytics is a simple, easy-to-use tool that helps website owners measure how users interact with website content. |
| __Secure-3PAPISID | Used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to display relevant and personalised Google advertising. | |
| __Secure-1PSIDCC | Used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to display relevant and personalised Google advertising. | |
| SAPISID | This cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. | |
| SSID | Google set a number of cookies on any page that includes a Google Map. While we have no control over the cookies set by Google, they appear to include a mixture of pieces of information to measure the number and behaviour of Google Maps users. | |
| HSID | Google uses this cookie for security. It contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. This cookie allows google to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms that you complete on web pages. | |
| __Secure-3PSID | These cookies are used to deliver ads more relevant to you and your interests. | |
| SID | Google uses this cookie for security. It contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. This cookie allows google to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms that you complete on web pages. | |
| APISID | This cookie is set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitors interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. | |
| __Secure-3PSIDCC __Secure-1PAPISID __Secure-1PSID | Used to create a user profile and display relevant and personalised Google Ads to the user. | |
| SIDCC | 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. | |
| 1P_JAR | 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. | |
| NID | The NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on. | |
| __Secure-ENID | To secure digitally signed and encrypted data from the unique Google ID and store the most recent login time that Google uses to identify visitors, prevent fraudulent use of login data and protect visitor data from unauthorised parties. This can also be used for targeting purposes to display relevant and personalised advertising content. | |
| _ga* _ga | Google Analytics – to store and count pageviews | |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver advertising. The cookie contains an encrypted Facebook user ID and browser ID. It will receive information from this website to better target and optimise advertising.
Information collected includes IP addresses, information about the web browser, page location, document, referrer and device, button clicks, pages visited and page metadata. | |
| ajs_user_id ajs_group_id ajs_anonymous_id | Atlassian Jira Servicedesk | |
| portal_user | ||
| SEARCH_SAMESITE | Allow servers to mitigate the risk of CSRF and information leakage attacks by asserting that a particular cookie should only be sent with requests initiated from the same registrable domain. | |
| CONSENT cookieyes-consent | Storage of the user’s decision with regard to the use of cookies on the website. | |
| wfwaf_authcookie-* | This cookie is used by the Wordfence firewall to perform a capability check of the current user before WordPress has been loaded. | |
| wordpress_sec_* | This cookie is used to store your authentication details. Its use is limited to the admin console area. | |
| mf_* | Mouseflow uses this cookie for storing anonymous information about the current session only. | |
| AEC | This cookie ensures that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. It also prevents malicious sites from acting on behalf of a user without that user’s knowledge | |
| wordpress_logged_in_* | After login, WordPress sets the wordpress_logged_in_[hash] cookie, which indicates when you’re logged in, and who you are, for most interface use. | |
| wp-settings-* wp-settings-time-* | WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customise your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. | |
| _glc_au | Used by Google AdSense on Google Analytics for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | |
| wpe-auth | Cookie for WP Engine to denote if the admin user has access to the WP Engine options accessible through the WordPress backend | |
| wpe_country | Used to store location data. | |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Checks if cookies are enabled to provide appropriate user experience. |
Third parties (for example, advertising networks, providers of external services such as web traffic and analysis services) may use cookies, over which we have no control. That type of cookie is most likely to be analytical/performance or targeting cookies.
If you would like to delete cookies stored on your computer simply refer to the help and support area of the internet browser you are using. Following the instructions to locate the file or directory that stores cookies.
Note disabling or deleting our cookies may prevent you from accessing certain areas or features of our site