Cookie Policy

A little bit about Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. Most websites you visit will use cookies in order to improve your user experience by enabling that website to ‘remember’ you, either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’). Cookies do lots of different jobs like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, supporting functionality such as social sharing, and capturing information about the usage of the website so we can make ongoing improvements.

Our cookies do not store any sensitive or confidential information.

The vast majority of web browsers accept cookies unless you decline them by modifying your browser settings. If you do this please be aware that restricting or deleting cookies may impact on the functionality of the website. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

A list of the cookies the website uses follows:

Essential Cookies

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PHPSESSID

These cookies are set when you arrive at the site. They are essential to the functioning of the site and are used to ensure that you are recognised when you move from page to page within the website and that any information that you have entered is remembered for the duration of your visit. This minimises the need to authenticate or reprocess each new area of the website that you visit. They are removed when you leave the website and close your browser and contain NO personal information.

Non-essential and third party cookies

exp_perpage
exp_last_visit
exp_last_activity

These cookies contain NO personal information and last for 6 months to 1 year. They hold the date of your last visit and are used for things like identifying which items on a page have been read previously, your preferences for the number of items viewed per page, etc.

Google Analytics

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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site and last for 30 mins to 2 years. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Please note this cookie may have already been set at an earlier visit.

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

Social Sharing  - using Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+ links

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googleplus
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SAPISID
SID
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twitter
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guest_id
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pinterest
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These cookies enable the social sharing functionality to work - a feature on most pages. These cookies contain NO personal information. This collection of cookies supports things such as location and date, behaviour targeting and counters.