What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small file which is placed on your computer’s hard drive to help store your user preferences, login and session states, analyse web traffic or let you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to manage or disable cookies anytime through your browser settings, but if you do some parts of this site may not work properly.
Cookies Used On This Site
The following cookies may be set:
| Cookie Name |
Description |
Duration |
| catAccCookies |
This cookie is set if you click ‘I Accept’ on our cookie notification banner. Once this cookie is set, you will not see the notification again until the cookie expires or until you delete the cookie |
1 year |
| PHPSESSID |
To identify your unique session on the website |
session |
| SESS |
To ensure that you are recognised when you move from page to page within the site and that any information you have entered is remembered. |
session |
Session Cookies
Session cookies last only for the duration of your visit to our website and are deleted when you close your browser or when you navigate to a different website.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to help us monitor the usage of our website. Anonymous data about your visit is collected and merged with that of other visitors so we can better understand how people use our website. This helps us to improve our site and to ensure that our website continues to provide relevant and useful information. The cookies generated by Google Analytics are:
__utma, __utmb, __utmc, and
__utmz. This information cannot be used to identify you personally.
Cookie Acceptance
If you choose to accept the cookies used on this site, an additional cookie with the name of
catAccCookies will be created. Once this cookie has been generated, you will no longer see the advisory ‘This site uses cookies’ message.
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