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This website uses "cookie" technology. A cookie is a small piece of data or a small text file stored by the browser on your computer, at the request of our server. We may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your personal preferences so you do not have to re-enter them each time you connect to our website – our cookies are not available to other websites.  In particular cookies enable us:

  • to measure visitor traffic to our website and their usage patterns
  • to store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our website according to your individual interests
  • to speed up your searches
  • to recognise you when you return to our website.

The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Name Purpose Activated Expires
Initiated by this website
PHPSESSID The PHPSESSID cookie is native to PHP and enables websites to store serialised state data. It is used to establish a user session and to pass state data via a temporary cookie, which is commonly referred to as a session cookie. (expires when you close your browser) On visit When you close your browser
Initiated by Google Analytics | Read More
_ga Used to distinguish users. On visit After 2 Years
_gat Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. On visit After 30 Minutes
_gid Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named On visit 1 minute
gwcc This cookie allows Google to track any call conversions on mobile devices. For example if a customer is clicking a phone number on the contact us page to dial from their mobile device On visit After 3 Months
Initiated by Add This| Read More
loc Geolocation, which is used to help providers determine how users who share information with each other are geographically located (state level). On visit 13 Months
mus Unclassified On visit 1 Year
ouid Unclassified On visit 1 Year
uid Creates a unique, machine-generated user ID. AddThis, which is owned by Clearspring Technologies, uses the user ID to make it possible for the user to share content across social networks and provide detailed statistics to various providers. On visit 1 Year
uvc Detects how often the social sharing service, AddThis, encounters the same user. On visit 13 Months
__atuvc AddThis: The __atuvc cookie is created and read by the AddThis social sharing site JavaScript on the client side in order to make sure the user sees the updated count if they share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. No data from that cookie is sent back to AddThis and removing it when disabling cookies would cause unexpected behaviour for users. On visit 1 Year
__atuvs This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. This is believed to be a new cookie from AddThis which is not yet documented, but has been categorised on the assumption it serves a similar purpose to other cookies set by the service. On visit 2 Years
Initiated by You Tube | Read More
CONSENT YouTube (Google) stores the consent for using third party content in frames On visit When you close your browser
GPS Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. On visit When you close your browser
PREF This remembers a user’s Youtube preferences when watching videos on the website. Used for Youtube’s ‘recommended videos’ feature. On visit 243 days
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE This cookie is used to measure the speed of a user’s internet connection to ensure they are receiving a suitable quality when watching video on the website. On visit 243 days
YSC Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. On visit When you close your browser
__Secure-1PAPISID Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. On visit 2 Years
__Secure-1PSID Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. On visit 2 Years
__Secure-3PAPISID Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. On visit 2 Years
__Secure-3PSIDCC Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. On visit 2 Years
__Secure-3PSID Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. On visit 2 Years
APISID Personalises Google ads on websites based on recent searches and interactions. On visit 2 Years
HSID These cookies are used to identify users, track users’ activity and store users’ preferences On visit 2 Years
LOGIN_INFO This cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. On visit 1 Year
SAPISID These cookies are used by Google to display personalized advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. On visit 2 Years
SIDCC These cookies are used by Google to display personalized advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. On visit 2 Years
SID These cookies are used by Google to display personalized advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. On visit 2 Years
SSID These cookies are used by Google to display personalized advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. On visit 2 Years
YSC Is used by YouTube to remember user input and associate a user’s actions. This cookie lasts for as long as the user keeps their browser open. On visit When you close your browser

What are my choices regarding cookies

If you'd like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.

Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.