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How we use cookies
Our website uses cookies and similar tracking technologies. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers downloaded on to a device when the user accesses certain websites. Cookies allow a website to recognise a user’s machine.
Your choices
You are in control of your privacy. Please let us know what cookies we can use. You can change your choices at any time by using the cookie preference dashboard accessible by clicking on the “C” icon located in the bottom left hand corner of our website.
You can also block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. For more information about cookies, how they work, how to delete them from your browser, and what choices you can make through your own browser settings see www.allaboutcookies.org.
Cookies used on our website
Analytical cookies:
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Analytical cookies used on our website:
| Provider | Cookie name | Purpose | Expiry |
| Google Analytics | _ga | Google analytics uses the _ga and _gid cookies to distinguish unique users and pages that users have seen. | 2 years |
| Google Analytics | _gat | Used to throttle request rate. | 1 day |
| Google Analytics | _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 1 day |
| AddThis | _at.hist.# | Used by the social sharing platform AddThis to store the user’s usage history of the AddThis sharing widget. | Persistent |
Marketing cookies:
Marketing cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customised ads.
Marketing cookies used on our website:
| Provider | Cookie name | Purpose | Expiry |
| AddThis | _atuvc | Updates the counter of a websites social sharing feature. | 1 year |
| AddThis | _atuvcs | Ensures that the updates counter is displayed to the user if a page is shared with social sharing service, AddThis. | 1 day |
| AddThis | _at.cww | Used by social sharing platform AddThis | Persistent |
| AddThis | at-lojson-cache-# | Used by social sharing platform AddThis | Persistent |
| AddThis | at-rand | Used by social sharing platform AddThis | Persistent |
| AddThis | loc | Geolocation, which is used to help providers determine how users who share information with each other are geographically located (state level). | 1 year |
| AddThis | uvc | Detects how often the social sharing service, AddThis, encounters the same user. | 1 year |
| AddThis | xtc | Registers the user’s sharing of content via social media. | 1 year |
For further information about how we use personal data please see our Privacy Policy