Cookie Policy
Dated 25 February 2022
Information about our use of cookies
Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site 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:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site.
- 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 site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use Google Analytics for this purpose. Google Analytics uses its own cookies. These cookies don’t collect information that identify a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how the site works.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our site. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web page which you can customise.
- Social Media Cookies. These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our site or you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking site such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this. This information may be linked to targeting/advertising activities.
- Marketing 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 site 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 | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | CONSENT | User to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. |
| Strictly necessary | CookieConsent | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. |
| Strictly necessary | li_gc | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. |
| Strictly necessary | PHPSESSID | Preserves user session state across page requests. |
| Strictly necessary | rc::a | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
| Strictly necessary | rc::c | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. |
| Strictly necessary | wordpress_test_cookie | Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. |
| Preferences | lang | Remembers the user's selected language version of the website. |
| Analytics | _cb | Collects data such as visitors' IP address, geographical location and website navigation - This information is used for internal optimization and statistics for the website's operator. |
| Analytics | _cb_expires | This cookie is used in context with HTML local storage, this sets an expiry date/time for the _cb tracker, which makes it function like a cookie. |
| Analytics | _cb_svref | Collects data such as visitors' IP address, geographical location and website navigation - This information is used for internal optimization and statistics for the website's operator. |
| Analytics | _cb_svref_expires | This cookie is used in context with HTML local storage, this sets an expiry date/time for the _cb_sverf, which makes it function like a cookie. |
| Analytics | _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| Analytics | _ga | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate |
| Analytics | _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| Analytics | AnalyticsSyncHistory | Used in connection with data-synchronization with third-party analysis service. |
| Analytics | personalization_id | This cookie is set by Twitter - The cookie allows the visitor to share content from the website onto their Twitter profile. |
| Analytics | vuid | Collects data on the user's visits to the website, such as which pages have been read. |
| Marketing | _chartbeat2 | Used by the web analytics company Chartbeat to register whether the user has visited the website before. |
| Marketing | _chartbeat2_expires | Used by the web analytics company Chartbeat to register whether the user has visited the website before. |
| Marketing | _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
| Marketing | _v__chartbeat3 | Contains data on user navigation, interaction and time spent on the website and its sub-pages - This data is used to optimise the relevance of advertisements and for statistical purposes. |
| Marketing | _v__chartbeat3_expires | Contains data on user navigation, interaction and time spent on the website and its sub-pages - This data is used to optimise the relevance of advertisements and for statistical purposes. |
| Marketing | bcookie | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
| Marketing | bscookie | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
| Marketing | lang | Set by LinkedIn when a web page contains an embedded "Follow us" panel |
| Marketing | lidc | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
| Marketing | NID | Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user's device. The ID is used for targeted ads. |
| Marketing | tr | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
| Marketing | UserMatchHistory | Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences. |
| Marketing | v2/tracker | Used in context with video-advertisement. The cookie limits the number of times a user is shown the same advertisement. The cookie is also used to ensure relevance of the video-advertisement to the specific user. |
| Marketing | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. |
| Marketing | WIDGET::local::assignments | Used by audio-platform SoundCloud to implement, measure and improve their embedded content/service on the website - The collection of data also includes visitors’ interaction with embedded content/service. This can be used for statistics or marketing purposes. |
| Marketing | YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| Marketing | yt.innertube::nextId | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| Marketing | yt.innertube::requests | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| Marketing | yt-remote-cast-available | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
| Marketing | yt-remote-cast-installed | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
| Marketing | yt-remote-connected-devices | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
| Marketing | yt-remote-device-id | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
| Marketing | yt-remote-fast-check-period | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
| Marketing | yt-remote-session-app | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
| Marketing | yt-remote-session-name | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
| Unclassified | muc_ads | Unclassified |
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.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after two weeks. You can find out more about Google Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies.
By using this website you consent to us deploying cookies as described above. If you do not wish to accept cookies from our site, or would like to stop permanent cookies being stored on your computer in the future you can change the settings in your browser to decline and/or delete cookies. The “Help” section on your browser menu will provide guidance on how to do this. Please note, 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.
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