Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie TitleCookie Name | Purpose | More information |
| cookie-agreed | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain | |
| cookie-agreed-version | Indicates the version of the acceptance of cookies. | |
| SSESS%ID% | This cookie is used by Drupal to link a user to a session so that information about their visit can be stored on the server as they move from one page to the next. This cookie also helps avoid session highjacking. It expires after 23 days. |
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
| Cookie TitleCookie Name | Purpose | More information |
| _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | |
| _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | |
| _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | |
| __Secure-3PAPISID | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. | |
| __Secure-1PAPISID | Targeting cookie. Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. | |
| APISID | Personalizes Google ads on websites based on recent searches and interactions. | |
| SSID | Google collects visitor information for videos hosted by YouTube on maps integrated with Google Maps. | |
| SAPISID | Google collects visitor information for videos hosted by YouTube. | |
| __Secure-3PSID | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. | |
| __Secure-1PSID | Targeting cookie. Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. | |
| __Secure-3PSIDCC | Targeting cookie. Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. | |
| SID | Security cookie to confirm visitor authenticity, prevent fraudulent use of login data and protect visitor data from unauthorized access. | |
| SIDCC | Security cookie to confirm visitor authenticity, prevent fraudulent use of login data and protect visitor data from unauthorized access. | |
| HSID | Security cookie to confirm visitor authenticity, prevent fraudulent use of login data and protect user data from unauthorized access. | |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries | linkedin.com |
| UserMatchHistory | LinkedIn Ads ID synchronisation | linkedin.com |
| li_gc | To store consent | linkedin.com |
| lang | To remember a user’s language setting | linkedin.com |
| li_sugr | Used to make a probabilistic match of a user’s identity outside the Designated Countries | linkedin.com |
| bcookie | Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform | linkedin.com |
| NID | Used by Google to store user preferences | |
| 1P_JAR | Based on recent searches and previous interactions, custom ads are shown on Google sites. | |
| lidc | To facilitate data center selection |
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 2 years.