Cookie notice

To make this website easier to use, we place small files on your device (for example your iPad or laptop) called cookies. Most big websites do this too.

Cookies improve things by:

  • remembering the things you’ve chosen while on our website, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you visit a new page
  • measuring how you use the website so we can make sure it meets your needs.

By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device. 

We don’t use cookies on this website that collect information about what other websites you visit (often referred to as privacy intrusive cookies).

Our cookies aren’t used to identify you personally. They’re just here to make the site work better for you. You can manage and/or delete these files as you wish.

Find out more about how to manage cookies.

The table below explains the cookies we use and why:
CookieNamePurposeMore Information

Google Analytics

Google Tag Manager

_ga

_gid

_gat

 These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site.

We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site.

The cookies collect information in an anonymous form. Data collected includes, number of visitors to the site, where visitors came to the site from, the pages they visited.

An overview of Google Analytics privacy

 

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics you can use their 'Opt out tool'.

Hotjar

_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress  

This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. 

30 minutes 

_hjid_hjIncludedInPageviewSample

This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit.

30 minutes

_hjIncludedInSessionSample This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that user is included in the data sampling. 30minutes
_hjSession_{id} Holds the current session data.  30minutes
_hjSessionUser_{id} Used to store your Hotjar User ID, unique to this site on this browser.

365 days

Hotjar Cookies

Cookie Control

CookieControl

This is used to remember your cookie preferences on this website.

90 days