This website uses cookies
This website uses cookies to provide an all-round better experience for our visitors. Some of these cookies are necessary to the functioning of this website and can only be disabled through your browser. Other cookies are optional, giving you control over the data you want to share with us. These cookies include analytical, marketing, and preferences, which all perform different functions, but ultimately allow us to deliver a tailored, more convenient user experience and allow us to distinguish you from other users on our website.
On your first visit to this website, you will have been asked to select your cookie preferences. You can either accept our recommended cookies, or you can manage your preferences. Please note, if you disable necessary cookies in your browser, some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files which are downloaded onto your device when you visit any website. They are what allows our website to remember your preferences and allows us to collect completely anonymised data analytics to find out how users behave on our website. Cookies are safe, though the choice of which cookies you are happy to accept, if any, is yours.
How we use cookies
We use the following cookies:
Necessary cookies - Necessary cookies are what enables our website to function properly on your device. Without necessary cookies, functions such as page navigation and search will not work as they should. These cookies can only be disabled by changing your browser settings.
Analytical cookies - We use analytics cookies to analyse how our website is being used. This includes which webpages are most popular, how many visitors we have, and allows us to understand what is working well so that we can perfect your experience. All user information collected by analytics cookies is anonymised which means no website visitor can be individually identified through our Google Analytics data.
Marketing cookies - We use marketing cookies on our website to show you ads that we believe are relevant to you and your interests. You may see these ads on other sites that you visit, on any of your devices where you've accepted marketing cookies. If you disable these cookies you will still see ads, they just will not be personalised to your interests.
Preference cookies - These are used to recognise when visitors return to our website. They let us personalise our content to you and remember your user preferences (for example your choice of language or region). These are generally a mix of first and third party, session and persistent cookies.
What cookies do we use?
Please see below a comprehensive guide of our cookies, what they do, why we use them, and how long they last.
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Cookie Title Cookie Name |
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ReCaptcha |
This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial as it allows us to make valid reports on the use of our website. This cookie is persistent, which means it never expires.
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CookieConsent |
Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. This cookie expires after 1 year. |
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CONSENT
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Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. This cookie expires after 2 years. |
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_ga _ga_#
Google Analytics |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. This cookie expires after 2 years. |
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_gat Google Analytics |
Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. This cookie expires after 1 day. |
www.cookiedatabase.org/cookie/google-analytics/_gat/ |
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_gid Google Analytics |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. This cookie expires after 1 day. |
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_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress
HotJar Absolute Session in Progress |
This cookie is used to count how many times a website has been visited by different visitors - this is done by assigning the visitor an ID. This cookie expires after 1 day.
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www. cookiedatabase.org/cookie/hotjar/_hjabsolutesessioninprogress/ |
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_hjFirstSeen HotJar First Seen |
This cookie is used to determine if the visitor has visited the website before. This cookie expires after 1 day. |
Cookies Set by the Hotjar Tracking Code – Hotjar Documentation |
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_hjIncludedInPageviewSample HotJar Included in Pageview Sample |
Used to detect whether the user navigation and interactions are included in the website’s data analytics. This cookie expires after 1 day. |
Cookies Set by the Hotjar Tracking Code – Hotjar Documentation |
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_hjIncludedInSessionSample HotJar Included in Session Sample |
Registers data on visitors' website-behaviour. This is used for internal analysis and website optimization. This cookie expires after 1 day. |
Cookies Set by the Hotjar Tracking Code – Hotjar Documentation |
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_hjRecordingLastActivity HotJar Recording Last Activity |
Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes. This cookie expires after your session. |
Cookies Set by the Hotjar Tracking Code – Hotjar Documentation |
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_hjSessionUser_# HotJar Session User |
Collects statistics on the visitor's visits to the website This cookie expires after 1 year. |
Cookies Set by the Hotjar Tracking Code – Hotjar Documentation |
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_hjTLDTest HotJar TLD Test |
Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. This cookie expires after your session. |
Cookies Set by the Hotjar Tracking Code – Hotjar Documentation |
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hjViewportId HotJar Viewport |
Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes. This cookie expires after your session. |
Cookies Set by the Hotjar Tracking Code – Hotjar Documentation |
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Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. This cookie expires after 3 months. |
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ads/ga-audiences
Google AdWords |
Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across websites. This cookie expires after your session. |
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Facebook Pixel |
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. This cookie expires after 3 months. |
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_hjRecordingEnabled HotJar Recording Enabled |
This cookie is used to identify the visitor and optimize ad-relevance by collecting visitor data from multiple websites – this exchange of visitor data is normally provided by a third-party data-center or ad-exchange. This cookie expires after your session. |
Cookies Set by the Hotjar Tracking Code – Hotjar Documentation |
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VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. This cookie expires after 179 days. |
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YouTube Store/Track |
Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. This cookie expires after your session. |
www.cookiedatabase.org/cookie/youtube/ysc/ |
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
- HotJar
- YouTube
- Infinity
How does this impact you?
The information that we collect through our cookies is completely anonymised, meaning we do not have access to your personal information when you accept our cookies. Cookies also pose no risk to your device. As the data doesn’t change, they can’t infect computers or other devices with viruses or malware.
Ultimately, cookies are there to simply allow us to provide you with a more personal experience and to track visitor behaviour so that we can optimise our website. If you wish to change any of your preferences, you can do at anytime using this tool here.