Cookies
This website utilises small files (known as 'cookies') to monitor how you browse the site and improve your experience. Examples of cookie use / benefit are to:
- record the the pages that are visited so that the website can be updated and improved based on use and visitor needs.
- remember the notifications you've seen so that we don't show them to you again.
How this website uses cookies
| Name | Source | Description | Expires |
| __utma | Google Analytics | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 2 years |
| __utmb | Google Analytics | Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 30 mins |
| __utmc | Google Analytics | Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. | When you log off |
| __utmt | Google Analytics | Used to throttle request rate. | 10 minutes |
| __utmz | Google Analytics | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 6 months |
| _ga | Google Analytics | Used to distinguish users. | 2 years |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Used to distinguish users. | 24 hours |
| _gat | Google Analytics | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_. | 1 minute |
| __sharethis_cookie_test__ | .sharethis.com | Used with the sharethis.com service to compile information about pages viewed and shared. | Session |
| __stid | .sharethis.com | Used with the sharethis.com service to compile information about pages viewed and shared. | 1 year |
| __unam | .sharethis.com | Used with the sharethis.com service to compile information about pages viewed and shared. | 9 months |
| __uset | .sharethis.com | Used with the sharethis.com service to compile information about pages viewed and shared. | 1 day |
| _vwo_uuid_v2 | .sharethis.com | Used with the sharethis.com service to compile information about pages viewed and shared. | 1 year |
| contently_insights_user | .sharethis.com | Used with the sharethis.com service to compile information about pages viewed and shared. | 9 months |
| seen_cookie_message | This website | Tells us that you've seen the cookie message. | 7 days |
| seen_contact_message | This website | Tells us that you've seen the privacy message on the contact page. | 28 days |
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