Cookie Policy

This website uses cookies. Further information about these cookies is set out below.

What is a cookie?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience. The cookies used on this website have been categorised as follows.

Strictly necessary cookies

Some of the cookies on this website are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website.

Performance cookies

Some of the cookies on this website collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works. By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.

Functionality cookies

Some of the cookies on this website allow the website to remember choices you make (such as language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.

Third party cookies

This website also allows third parties to download cookies to your device.

When you use the social media sharing tools, like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or YouTube, through this website, the relevant third party websites also set a range of performance and other cookies onto your device.

Further information about these cookies is available from:

Visit Facebook's privacy policy

Visit Twitter's privacy policy

Visit YouTube's privacy policy

Visit LinkedIn's privacy policy

How we use cookies

We use cookies for a number of different purposes. Some cookies are necessary for technical reasons; some enable a personalized experience for both visitors and registered users; and some allow analytics cookies such as google. Some of these cookies may be set when a page is loaded, or when a visitor takes a particular action.

For more information on the choices you have about the cookies we use, please see the How to ‘Control and Delete cookies’ section.

Cookies table

This table summarises the cookies which may be set on your machine or other device when it is used.

PHPSESSID (6 day expiry)

Preserves user session state across page requests. Source: https://www.engenda-group.com

_ga (2 years expiry)

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the web site. Source: https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js

_gat (1 day expiry)

Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate Source: https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js

_gid (1 day expiry)

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the web site. Source: https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js

How to control and delete cookies

We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, should you choose to disable, reject or block our cookies, some parts of our websites will not function fully, or in some cases, our website will not be accessible at all.

For more information on how to control your cookie settings and browser settings, or how to delete cookies on your hard drive, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.