When you visit our website, information related to the pages you look at may be saved in cookies. Cookies are stored on the device that is being used to access the website (this may be your laptop, or your phone). This document explains what cookies are, the cookies we use and what we use them for.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files that are used in order to make our website work. Cookies help us recognise your device. They let us know that you are visiting our website. This helps us change the way our website works for you.
Why do we use cookies?
There are different types of cookies. We use:
- essential cookies help make our website work. They allow you to navigate the website or use the contact form. This type of cookies stays active at all times – if you block their use, some parts of the website won’t work
- session cookies allow us to link your actions on the website. They last for one browser session. These cookies will expire when you close your browser
- performance cookies help us count visits and check where people who browse our website come from. This helps us improve the way our website works – we learn which pages are most popular. You don’t have to allow those cookies. This means we won’t know when you visit our website or see which pages you visited
Which cookies do we use?
We use essential cookies (Drupal session cookies), which store only a session ID code with which to identify the user. This information expires on exiting the browser.
We also use performance cookies (Google Analytics) to record and report how you use the website. This information can’t be used to identify you – it contains the information about the country you are in and your activity. We ensure we record as little information as possible. Google Ad words tracking is also disabled. If you choose to accept cookies, we use a small cookie to record your choice. We also use a small cookie to check if you have opted to use our high contrast accessibility feature.
| Categories | Cookies |
Essential Cookies Drupal session cookie - stores only a session ID code with which to identify the user who is currently logged in. Expires on logout from website. This lasts as long as your visit to the website. |
This is an auto generated number such as SESSffbcdb67dca02d807e3b6c5a8861ed54 |
Performance Google Analytics - We use these to record and report the usage of the website. We IP anonymise all visitors to country level using google tag embedded code so that we do not record any personally identifiable data belonging to you. We ensure we minimise what is recorded and Google adwords tracking is disabled. This lasts as long as your visit to the website. | _gat _ga _gid __atuvc __atuvs AWSELBCORS AWSELB PBSECURESUSID |
Performance Cookie agreement - if you accept cookies, we store a small cookie to record your choice. This lasts for 30 days. | cookie_agreed |
Performance High contrast mode - if you use the high contrast accessibility version of the website, we store a small cookie to record your choice. This lasts for 30 days. | equalities_contrast |
Consent to use cookies
There is a message on our website asking you to consent to us using cookies on your device.