Key

Platform

Purpose

Social media cookies
These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our site or you link your account or engage with our content on or through the social networking site Facebook. The social network will record that you have done this. This information may be linked to targeting/advertising activities.

The social media cookies are listed below:

_ga

Google Analytics

Allows analytics.js to identify unique users across browsing sessions, but it cannot identify unique users across different browsers or devices.

_gid

Google Analytics

This cookie stores randomly generated ids and campaign information about the user. It is used to identify unique users across browsing sessions, but it cannot identify unique users across different browsers or devices.

_dc_gtm_UA-50240930-1

Google Tag Manager

When Google Analytics isn’t integrated directly but injected via GTM, the cookie is renamed (_gtm_UA-). The addition of _dc is used to help identify the visitors by either age, gender, or interests by DoubleClick.

__cfduid

Cloudflare

This cookie is set by the CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic & malicious visitors to the website, to reduce the chance of blocking legitimate users. It does not correspond to any user id in the web application, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable information.

fr

Facebook

Encrypted Facebook ID and Browser ID

Cookie Name

Purpose

Google DoubleClick

We use these cookies to measure the effectiveness of our online marketing campaigns; to improve reporting on campaign performance; and to avoid showing ads the user has already seen.

Google Analytics

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.

How to reject cookies

If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can alter your browser settings. The procedure for doing so varies from one browser application to another. If you wish to reject cookies from our site, but wish to accept those from other sites, you may choose the option in your browser settings to receive a notice before a cookie is stored on your device. Please consult the “Help” section of your browser for more information.

To find out more, please consult the following: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies and www.youronlinechoices.com. By disabling cookies, you may be prevented from accessing some features of our site or certain content or functionality may not be available.

Cookies notice

How we deploy “cookies”

Cookies are small packets of information stored by your web browser when you visit certain websites, including our website. Cookies are generally used by websites to improve your user experience by enabling that website to ‘remember’ you, either strictly for the duration of your visit (using a “Session” cookie which is erased when you close your browser) or for repeat visits (using a “Permanent” cookie).

We do not use cookies to store any personally identifiable information about you. However, please be advised that in some countries data such as cookie IDs and IP-/MAC- addresses are considered to be personal information. To the extent we process such data that is considered personal information, this will be done in accordance with our Privacy Notice.

Our site uses the following types of cookies:

Performance cookies
We may also use cookies issued by third parties (“Third Party” cookies) to track the websites you visited or search terms you used immediately prior to visiting this site, or to collect information about how visitors use the site. We use Google Analytics for this purpose. Google Analytics uses its own cookies. These cookies don’t collect information that identify a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how the site works.

You can find out more about Google Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies.

You can avoid the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our site by downloading and installing the Browser Plugin available via this link:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

The performance cookies are listed below :