Cookies on our website
The law requires that websites ask for consent before setting cookies that aren’t “strictly necessary” for the operation of the website. We are currently in the process of our checking our website to ensure that we meet this legislation.
You can find the full text of The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (PECR) on the government legislation website.
This web page is being regularly updated as we compile a full list of cookies on our website. Read our website's privacy statement for more information.
Google Analytics
| Cookie name | content | expires |
|---|---|---|
| _utma | randomly generated number | 2 years |
| _utmb | randomly generated number | 30 minutes |
| _utmc | randomly generated number | when you close the browser |
| _utmx | randomly generated number | 2 years |
| _utmxx | randomly generated number | 2 years |
| _utmz | randomly generated number and information on how the site was reached (for example directly, or by a link or search) | 6 months |
Social media cookies
We embed our video content using YouTube. Information on how Youtube uses cookies can be found on the Google privacy pages. We have used YouTube's 'no-cookie' domain to stream videos on our site. This means that cookies will only be set by YouTube if you play the video.
Some of our web pages include Twitter streams. These use cookies, set by the service provider. Go to the Twitter Privacy policy page
Third party site disclaimer
Please note that external sites including social media sites linked from our website may also use cookies. You need to check with these external sites what information is being collected using cookies.