Information about our use of cookies

Our Site uses the following cookies:

  • Strictly Necessary. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the Site.

  • Analytical. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the Site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way the Site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

  • Functionality. These are used to recognize you when you return to the Site. This enables us to remember your preferences.

  • Targeting. These cookies record your visit to the Site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make the Site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests and to track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts as well as those of third parties, including on and through the Site. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie

Type

Purpose

Duration/Expiry

JSESSIONID

Analytical

New Relic cookie. Used to monitor website health (traffic flow, server hits, etc..) and ensure site functionality. Required by the CMS cannot be removed

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bpazaws52gukakzc__*

Functional

Captcha feature for forms.

6 hours

cookieconsent_status

Functional

Cookie consent banner, remember choice.

1 year

cookieconsent-timestamp

Functional

Timestamp of consent.

1 year

ngpskuephr

Functional

Use for protected pages that require login access

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Q4_ASPX_PUBLIC_{user}

Functional

"Remember Me" feature on public protected login page

N/A

_ga

Analytical

Google Analytics (Anonymized IP)

2 years

_gid

Analytical

Google Analytics (Anonymized IP)

24 hours

_gat, _gat_Client

Analytical

Google Analytics (Anonymized IP)

1 minute

adtsgidr5

Functional

This is used for Anti-CSRF protection, related to email alerts signup

4 hours

connect.sid

Functional

Heroku App Id. Used for Social Media Feed

N/A

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.