cookies

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.

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.

The cookies we use are “analytical” cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site 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. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

 

Cookie Name Purpose More information
cookiesDirective Cookies Directive Remembers your preference to accept our cookie policy
wordpress_test_cookie WordPress test cookie A test performed by our website to check if you are using cookies.
wordpress_* WordPress session Used by wordpress to maintain logins The * is a place holder for a random string
_ga Universal Analytics cookie Used by google to distinguish users.
PHPSESSID PHP Session variable Core PHP function for account login

You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will die on exit and closing of your browser.