Cookie Policy

Information about our use of cookies and consent

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. This cookie policy provides you with clear and comprehensive information about the cookies we use and the purpose for using them. Due to recent changes in law, all Web sites which operate across certain part of the European Union are required to obtain consent using or storing cookies (or similar technologies) on your computers or mobile device. 

By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies as set out below. If you do not agree to our placing cookies on your computer, then you should either decide to not visit the site, delete the cookies having visited the site, or visit the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting. Please read this cookie policy carefully for more details about the information we collect when you use this site.  In all cases in which cookies are used on this site, the cookies will not collect any personally identifiable information. 

What is a cookie? 

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies: 

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. 
  • Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. 
  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. 

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them is below:

  • Cookie- _ga. Duration- 2 years. Purpose- This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports
  • Cookie- gclau. Duration- 90 days. Purpose- Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.
  • Cookie- _gid. Duration- 24hrs.Purpose- It stores and update a unique value for each page visited.
  • Cookie- __hstc. Duration- 2 years. Purpose- The main cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, utk (see below), initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session).
  • Cookie- __hssrc. Duration- . Purpose- Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set. We set it to 1 and use it to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. If this cookie does not exist when we manage cookies, we assume it is a new session.
  • Cookie- hubspotutk. Duration- 2 years. Purpose- This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. HubSpot report that its purpose is user authentication. As a persistent rather than a session cookie it cannot be classified as Strictly Necessary.
  • Cookie- _hjIncludedInSample. Duration- 2 years. Purpose- This session cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels.
  • Cookie- _hsopt_out. Duration- 2 years. Purpose- This cookie is used by the opt-in privacy policy to remember not to ask the visitor to accept cookies again. This cookie is set when you give visitors the choice to opt out of cookies.
  • Cookie- _gat. Duration- 10mins. Purpose- This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes.
  • Cookie- _hssc. Duration- 30mins. Purpose- This cookie keeps track of sessions. This is used to determine if we should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It contains the domain, view count (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp. 
  • Cookie- testcookie. Duration- 30mins. Purpose- This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor’s browser supports cookies.
  • Cookie- vuid. Duration-2 years. Purpose- These cookies are used by the Vimeo video player on websites.

How to delete and block our cookies

You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit our site.  Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 12 months.  Please note that if you choose to reject the cookies, certain parts of the site may not be available to you or may not function properly. 

For further information about deleting or blocking cookies, please visit: www.aboutcookies.org

Changing your cookies settings

Please note that internet browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your internet browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful. Otherwise you should use the ‘Help’ option in your internet browser for more details.

More information about cookies 

Useful information about cookies can be found at: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ 

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