Cookie policy

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.

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:

• Analytical or performance cookies. These 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.
• 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).
• 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.

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	PURPOSE	DEFAULT EXPIRATION TIME
Analytical cookies	_utma	Used to distinguish visitors and sessions.	2 years from set/update
	_utmb	Used to determine new sessions/visits.	30 mins from set/update
	_utmc	Operated in conjunction with the _utmb cookie to determine whether you were in a new session/visit.	End of browser session
	_utmz	Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how you reached our site.	6 months from set/update
	_utmv	Used to store your custom variable data.	2 years from set/update
Functionality cookies
Targeting cookies

Please note that third parties (including, for example, providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You can 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 website.