Cookie Policy

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

  1. Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  2. Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  3. Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  4. Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Name Expiration Time Purpose More information
_ga 2 years Used to distinguish users.
_gid 24 hours Used to distinguish users.
_gat 1 minute Used to throttle request rate.
If Google Analytics is deployed
via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be
named _dc_gtm_<property-id>.
AMP_TOKEN 30 seconds to 1 year Contains a token that
can be used to retrieve a
Client ID from AMP Client ID
service. Other possible values
indicate opt-out, inflight
request or an error
retrieving a Client ID
from AMP Client ID service.
_gac_<property-id> 90 days Contains campaign related
information for the user.
If you have linked your
Google Analytics and
AdWords accounts,
AdWords website
conversion tags
will read this cookie unless you opt-out.
Learn more
__utma 2 years from set/update 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.
__utmt 10 minutes Used to throttle request rate.
__utmb 30 mins from set/update 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.
__utmc End of browser session 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.
__utmz 6 months from set/update 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.
__utmv 2 years from set/update Used to store visitor-level
custom variable data. This
cookie is created when a
developer uses the_setCustomVar 
method with a visitor level
custom variable. This cookie
was also used for the
deprecated _setVar method.
The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
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Please note that third parties including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.