Cookies
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device. These include small files known as cookies.
Cookies help us understand how people are using our website, so we can improve the service it offers. We also use cookies to allow you to share content from our website across social networks.
Cookies cannot be used to identify you personally.
Discovering how people use the site (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how people use our site. Google Analytics stores information about:
- the pages you visit
- how long you spend on each
- how you got to the site
- what you click on while you’re visiting the site
It does not collect or store personal information like your name or address. We do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
Google Analytics sets the following cookies. You can opt out of these cookies at any time.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Helps us count how many people visit our site by tracking if you’ve visited before. | 2 years |
| _gid | Helps us count how many people visit our site by tracking if you’ve visited before. | 24 hours |
| _gat | Lets us manage the rate at which page view requests are made. | 10 minutes |
Sharing content across social networks (AddThis)
We use AddThis, a social sharing service, to allow you to easily share content with your social networks. AddThis sets the following cookies.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| __atuvc | Lets you share content with a range of platforms, and counts how many times people do this. | 2 years |
| __atuvs | Lets you share content with a range of platforms. | 30 minutes |