We want your experience of using our website to be easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them through Internet browser cookies - what they are and how to manage them
Learn how to remove cookies set on your device
There are two types of cookie you may encounter when using our website:
First party cookies: these are our own cookies, controlled by us and used to provide information about usage of our site.
Third party cookies: these are cookies found in other companies'
internet tools which we are using to enhance our site, for example
Facebook, Twitter and Google have their own cookies, which are
controlled by them.
Our website uses cookies in several places – we've listed each of
them below with more details about why we use them and how long they
will last.
We will endeavour to let you know before we store a cookie on your computer.
Cookies set by our website
| Name | Purpose | Typical content | Expires |
| PHPSESSID | Authentication session to prevent having to login multiple times in one browser session. | Unique random string allocated to user's time on site. | Expires on exit |
We may use a number of suppliers who may also set cookies on our website on their behalf. Our website does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the third party websites for more information about these.
Cookies set on our website by a 3rd party
| Provider | Name | Purpose | More info |
| Share This | __uset __stid |
Tracks what is being shared and by whom | Share This privacy |
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