Cookie Policy

1.What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit our website. They are used to enable our site to function as well as providing statistical information on how our site is used. We also allow the setting of third-party cookies.

2.Types of cookie

Cookies are used for a variety of purposes. The choices you have of whether to accept them or not will depend on the purpose they are used for. Cookies will generally fall into the following categories:

Strictly necessary - these cookies are essential for our site to function. These cookies are exempt from the usual opt-in requirements.

Analytical - these cookies collect statistics on how our website is being used, such as which pages are most visited. They enable us to improve the design and functionality of our site. You have the option of whether to enable these cookies.

Functional - these cookies remember the choices you have made, such as saving your preferred language or region. You have the option of whether to enable these cookies.

Targeting or Advertising - these cookies are used to deliver adverts that are more relevant to you and your interests when you browse the internet. They will often be placed by a third party when you interact with embedded content, such as YouTube and LinkedIn videos and links. You have the option of whether to enable these cookies.

As well as the above categories, cookies can be further classified with the below information. These help to determine which domain is setting the cookie and how long it will remain on your device:

Session cookies: These cookies are temporary and are only active whilst your browser session is open. These cookie will be removed when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies: These cookies have expiration dates and will stay on your device for a set period of time. Once this period has elapsed, they will be removed from your device.

First-party: These are cookies set by us directly. Only we can retrieve their data and we don’t share this information with other sites. Although we work with other third parties to provide these cookies, only we can view the contents.

Third-party: These are cookies that are set by a different domain. We can’t view or collect any information from these types of cookie.

3.Managing cookies

If you are visiting from the UK or EEA, you are able to manage your cookie preferences using the embedded cookie preference tool, which can be found by clicking the logo in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen, or the button below.

Alternatively, you can also restrict cookies through the settings in your internet browser. Please note however that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of our website. Here’s how you can do this in some of the most common internet browsers:

Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11

Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

You can opt-out of all Google Analytics cookies by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

For further information on how to manage cookies from a variety of different browsers, please visit www.aboutcookies.org. You can also find general information on cookies.

If you are visiting from the UK or EEA, accepting our recommended settings will allow both ‘Analytical’ and ‘Advertising’ cookies to be set.

For other regions, all cookies will be automatically set by default. However, you are able to adjust your browser settings to reject cookies if you wish.

4.What are cookies?

Strictly Necessary: These cookies are essential to the operation and security of our website.

Cookie name	Provider	Purpose Type	Expiration
CFID	-	Cookie set by Adobe ColdFusion applications. Used in conjunction with CFTOKEN this cookie helps to uniquely identify a client device (browser) to enable the site to maintain user session variables. How those are used are specific to the site. CFID contains a sequential number to identify the client.	PERSISTENT
CFTOKEN	-	Cookie set by Adobe ColdFusion applications. Used in conjunction with CFTOKEN this cookie helps to uniquely identify a client device (browser) to enable the site to maintain user session variables. How those are used are specific to the site. CFID contains a sequential number to identify the client.	PERSISTENT
OptanonConsent	-	This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor.	PERSISTENT
OptanonAlertBoxClosed		This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information.	PERSISTENT

Analytics & Functional: These cookies help us to improve the way our website works, as well as personalising it according to your preferences.

Cookie name	Provider	Purpose Type	Expiration
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	youtube.com	Estimates your bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.	PERSISTENT
__cf_bm	fonts.net	The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. This is a CloudFoundry cookie	PERSISTENT
_ga	Google	This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. 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. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners._ga	PERSISTENT
_gid	Google	This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.	PERSISTENT

Targeting or Advertising: We allow trusted third-parties to place cookies through our website in order to deliver advertising to you on other websites. We may also use some of these cookies to retrieve information from web forms for our own marketing database.

Cookie name	Provider	Purpose Type	Expiration
CONSENT	youtube.com	YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.	PERSISTENT
YSC	youtube.com	Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of videos from YouTube you have viewed.	SESSION
ROSPOPUPCOOKIEXMAS	-	Used to manage advertising offers	SESSION
CHECKOUTPOPUPCOOKIEXMAS	-	Used to manage advertising offers	SESSION
test_cookie	-	Used for debugging purposes	PERSISTENT