Our cookie statement

What is a Cookie?

A “cookie” is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.

Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.

If you want to check or change what types of cookies you accept, this can usually be altered within your browser settings. You can block cookies at any time 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.

How do we use Cookies?

We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns with regards how you are using our website. This helps us to develop and improve our website.

The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

CookiesPurpose
EssentialEssential cookies (Strictly Necessary) help make a website navigable by activating basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure website areas. Without these cookies, the website would not be able to work properly.  
AnalyticalUniversal Analytics (Google) we use are: _ga, _gali, _gat, _gid   Analytical cookies (Performance) are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.
Third party cookies  We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page.
OptiMonk CookiesOptiMonk uses 3 cookies for the following purposes:

optiMonkClient: We use this cookie to store the data needed for the Campaigns: Campaign ID, date and time of the first visit, date and time of the last visit, pageview count, Variant ID, Campaign status, and Impression count for the visitor. This cookie expires in 1 year.

optiMonkClientId: This cookie is used to identify the visitor, and it expires in 1 year.

optiMonkSession: We store the Session ID here, which is the current session of the visitor. This cookie expires after the current session.

How do I change my cookie settings?

You can change your cookie preferences at any time.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.