Cookie Policy

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added, and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets 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.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

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 accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website however.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other third-party websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our website, you should note that we do not have any control over that other third-party website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such websites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question We do not control these third-party websites and are not liable for their privacy policies. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

Cookies used on our sites

These cookies are required for the site to work properly, and to remember notifications you’ve seen and preferences you have.

Name	Purpose	Expiry
DO_NT_SHW_BNR	Used to remember the fact you don’t want to see our homepage banner message again	1 Year
cookiebanner	Used to remember your understanding of our cookie policy	1 Year
_bac	Used to remember your analytics cookie choice	1 Year
JSESSIONID	A session identifier. A unique random value that allows the site to recognise your movement around the site as being from one computer. Contains no personal information and cannot be used to identify a user.	When you close your browser

Analytics cookies

These cookies are optional, and you can disable their use when you first visit the site.

Name	Purpose	Expiry
MUID	Used to improve our understanding of how people use our website through web analytics.	1 Year
_uetsid	Used to improve our understanding of how people use our website through web analytics.	1 Year
_hjid	Used to improve our understanding of how people use our website through web analytics.	1 Year
mhvisitorid	Used to improve our understanding of how people use our website through web analytics.	1 Year
_ga	Used to improve our understanding of how people use our website through web analytics.	2 Years
_uetvid	Used to improve our understanding of how people use our website through web analytics.	1 Year
_gid	Used to improve our understanding of how people use our website through web analytics.	1 Day
mhVisitorId	Used to improve our understanding of how people use our website through web analytics.	1 Year