Most websites you visit will use cookies in order to improve your user experience by enabling that website to remember you like keeping you signed in 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, storing your preferences, and generally improving your experience of a website. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier. If a website doesn't use cookies, it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site – for example, when you enter your login details and move to another page it won’t recognise you and it won’t be able to keep you logged in.
Some websites will also use cookies to enable them to target their advertising or marketing messages based for example, on your location and/or browsing habits.
Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting ("first party cookies") or they may be set by other websites who run content on the page you are viewing ("third party cookies").
A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers. It allows a website to remember things like your preferences.
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
| Cookie | Purpose |
|---|---|
| __cfduid | Used to permit access to the CloudFlare Content Delivery Network, which is used to ensure the performance of this website. This cookie is strictly necessary for site security operations and can't be turned off. What does the CloudFlare cfduid cookie do? |
| PHPSESSID | This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number maintaining a logged-in status. |
| _utmt / __utma / __utmb / __utmc / __utmz | Google Analytics. See Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites |
| DoubleClick | This is a general purpose cookie. |
| Tawk | This website uses tawk.to, a live chat solution provided by tawk.to Ltd. Tawk.to uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors. All communication between us and our visitors in this chat is over 128bit Secure Socket Layer, and all data is housed on encrypted servers. The chat log may be saved with your personal profile for the purpose of providing excellent customer service. |
Modified 2 February 2022.