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Most websites you visit will use cookies in order to improve your user experience by enabling that website to ‘remember’ you, either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’). Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier.

By law web sites must inform you of the use of cookies on the site, (in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the EU Privacy and Communications Directive). In May 2012, the UK Government passed new legislation with regards to the use of cookies. The following section briefly explains what cookies are, which ones are collected by us and how they are used on our website. For more detailed information follow our links below.

Some of the cookies, such as Google analytical, are used to provide anonymous information on visitor statistics, others may be necessary for the website to function properly, such as the cookie pop up.

Our cookies
We collect the following anonymous cookies for analytics purposes.
Provider: Google Analytics. Purpose: Cookies for Google Analytics collect information about how visitors use our website to help us improve our services and user experience at our website. Information collected by these cookies is anonymous.
Cookies may include -
_ga 2 years Used to distinguish users.
_gid 24 hours Used to distinguish users.
_gat 1 minute Used to throttle request rate.
AMP_TOKEN 30 seconds to 1 year Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service.
__utma 2 years from set/update Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
__utmt 10 minutes Used to throttle request rate.
__utmb 30 mins from set/update Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
__utmc End of browser session Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit.
__utmz 6 months from set/update Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
__utmv 2 years from set/update Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

We assure you that all information gathered on this web site in this manner is anonymous and therefore does not include detailed information about you, unless you voluntarily enter information, such as registering on our blog. In which case read our privacy policy on storage of information.

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