Cookies Policy

1. Strictly Necessary Cookies 
We deploy cookies to help us identify how users navigate to and around our website and to enable some of the features within the site that may be beneficial to you (for example, language preferences, or print page features). This helps us deliver an effective online service to you. These are known as “First Party” cookies. 

__Request Verification Token – This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorized posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser.

2. Functionality Cookies 
These cookies allow our sites to remember choices you make (such as user name, or region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of the web page which you can customize. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. 

Language – This cookie is used to store language preferences, and to serve up content in the stored language.

3. Performance Cookies 
We may also use cookies issued by third parties (“Third Party” cookies) to track the websites you visited or search terms you used immediately before visiting this site, or to collect information about how visitors use the site. We use Google Analytics for this purpose. Google Analytics uses its cookies. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how the site works.
You can find out more about Google Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies.

You can avoid the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our site by downloading and installing the Browser Plugin available via this link: 

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB. 

The performance cookies are listed below: 

· _gid – This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This cookie stores and updates a unique value for each page visited.

· _pk_id* – This cookie name is associated with the Piwik open-source web analytics platform. It is used to help website owners track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. It is a pattern-type cookie, where the prefix _pk_id is followed by a short series of numbers and letters, which is believed to be a reference code for the domain setting the cookie.  

· _gat – This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high-traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes.

· _pk_ses* – This cookie name is associated with the Piwik open-source web analytics platform. It is used to help website owners track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. It is a pattern-type cookie, where the prefix _pk_ses is followed by a short series of numbers and letters, which is believed to be a reference code for the domain setting the cookie. 

· _ga – This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request on a site and used to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data for the site’s analytics reports. By default, it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customizable by website owners.

· JSESSIONID – This domain is a third-party performance cookie and is used to store a session identifier. It is controlled by New Relic, which provides a platform for monitoring the performance of web and mobile applications. This cookie deletes after the browser closes.

4. Social Media Cookies 
These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our site or you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking site such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this. This information may be linked to targeting/advertising activities. 

Google Double Click – We use these cookies to measure the effectiveness of our online marketing campaigns; to improve reporting on campaign performance; and to avoid showing ads the user has already seen.

Google Analytics – These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from, and the pages they visited. 

YouTube – YouTube is a Google-owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. the HSID cookies is used by Google in combination with SID to verify the Google user account and most recent login time. 

Twitter – Twitter uses cookies and other similar technologies, such as pixels or local storage, to help provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience. Like many websites, Twitter uses cookies to discover how people are using their services and to make them work better.

Facebook

· fbp – Used to deliver advertisement products such as real-time bidding from 3rd party advertisers.

· tr – Used to deliver advertisement products such as real-time bidding from 3rd party advertisers.

· fr – Used to deliver advertisement products such as real-time bidding from 3rd party advertisers.

LinkedIn

· Bcookie – Tracks the use of embedded services.
· Bscookie – Tracks the use of embedded services.
· lidc – Tracks use of embedded services.
· BizoID – Used to track visitors on multiple websites, and to present relevant advertisements based on the visitor’s preferences.
· UserMatchHistory – Used to track visitors on multiple websites, and to present relevant advertisements based on the visitor’s preferences.

Vimeo

· Player – collects users’ preferences when playing embedded videos from Vimeo.
· SyncActive – collects users’ video-content preferences, such as volume.
· Vuid – collects data on users’ visits, such as pages read.