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The Law
On May 25th 2012 a European Union law was implemented by UK legislation, The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011, with a requirement that websites that leave non-essential cookies on visitors’ devices have to inform the visitor what these cookies are. This website complies with this law by providing information on the cookies we use so that if you choose you can either modify your browser settings to manage cookies or leave the website.
How we use Cookies
This web site also uses non-essential cookies so that we can serve you better, but all user data collected in this manner is anonymous. This site uses visitor tracking that will use cookies to track information about how visitors come to the website, which pages they visit, and other actions that visitors make whilst on the site. This data is then used in order to improve the user experience of our web site.
Non-essential Cookies also enhance our web site performance in a number of ways, personalising your experience on our site, making it more convenient for you.
Your Options
Should you wish to do so, you can refuse cookies by disabling them in your web browser’s settings. Most browsers are defaulted to accept and maintain cookies and you can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it or not. Please consult the support documentation for your web browser, which can be found online, for more information. More detailed information about controlling cookies on your computer is also available at the About Cookies website.
If you do not wish to disable cookies then you have the option to leave the website.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent in a text file to your computer browser from a website’s server and is then stored on your computer, but only IF your browser’s preferences are set by you to allow it. The only personal information a cookie can obtain is information a user supplies. A cookie cannot read data from your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.
NB: If you are browsing from within a work based network you may not have adequate permissions to allow you to control the cookies that are set.
This site uses the following non-essential cookies:
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry |
| _ga | Google Analytics | Used to identify users and generates statistical data on the way they use our website. | 2 years |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Used to identify users and generates statistical data on the way they use our website. | 24 hours |
| _gat | Google Analytics | Used by Google Analytics to limit request rates. | 10 minutes |
| _utma | Stores the amount of visits, time of the first visit, the previous visit and current visit for each user. | never | |
| _utmb | Used by Google to identify how long a user stays on the website | end of session | |
| _utmc | Used by Google to identify how long a user stays on the website | 30 minutes | |
| _utmt | Used by Google to limit request rates. | 10 miuntes | |
| _utmz | Used by Google to identify how the user navigated to the website | 6 months | |
| wordpress_test_cookie | website | Used to identify if the current browser supports the use of cookies. | session |
| wordpress_logged_in_ | website | Used to identify if the current user is logged in. | session |
| wordpress_sec_[hash] | website | Used to store authentication details. | session |
| wp-settings- | website | Used to customize users view of the admin interface, and possibly the main site interface. | session |
| wp-settings-time- | website | Used to customize users view of the admin interface, and possibly the main site interface. | session |
| cookie_consent | website | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for our website | 1 year |
| wfwaf-authcookie_[hash] | WordFence | This cookie is used by the Wordfence firewall to perform a capability check of the current user before WordPress has been loaded. | 1 day |