Our websites use cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can.
Cookies are small text files that are automatically placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit almost any website. They are stored by your internet browser. Cookies contain basic information about your internet use, but they do not normally identify you personally. Your browser sends these cookies back to the site every time you revisit it, so it can recognise your computer or mobile device and personalise it accordingly to improve your site experience.
We use some cookies which are necessary to help you access and move around our sites and use all its features. Without these cookies, our websites would not work properly and you would not be able to use certain important features. We also use cookies to help us understand how our website is being used and how we can improve your experience on it. This provides us with anonymous information to help us understand which parts of our site are of most interest to our visitors and monitor how our visitors reach us.
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If the settings on your software that you are using to view our websites (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our websites, as your consent. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our websites you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our websites will not work as you would expect.
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit aboutcookies.org or allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
| Domain | Cookie name | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Google.com | _ga, _gid, _gat, NID | We use Google Analytics to help analyse how you user our websites in order to improve our service. In addition, we use cookies to remember your preferences, such as your preferred language. Google provides an opt-out tool to disable cookies. |
| CONSENT | To allow the cookie message to appear as you use our websites. | |
| 1P_JAR | To gather website statistics and track conversion rates. | |
| Adobe.com | s_vi | Enables Adobe to open PDFs from our websites. |
| Geokey.org.uk | djdt | To remove bugs from the website. It is strictly necessary. |
| csrftoken | To help protect a site against a particular type of software attack on web forms. It is strictly necessary. | |
| sessionid | To anonymously identify your session. It is strictly necessary. | |
| messages | To enable the cookie message to appear as you use our websites. |