Cookie policy

Information about our use of cookies

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. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

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 us to identify trusted web traffic, preserve user states across page requests and enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical/performance cookies: They 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 more relevant to your interests. 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 Purpose Expires
_cfduid Used by Cloudflare to identify trusted web traffic. 1 year
JSESSIOND Preserves user states across page requests Session
_ga Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website 2 years
_gat Used by Google Analytics to limit the number of requests that can be made by the user 1 day
_gid Used by Google Analytics to understand the user journey a visitor takes when using the site 1 day
_ab12# Tracks visitors across websites so marketing can be tailored 1 year
_hssrc Collects anonymous statistical data related to the user’s website visits Session
_fbp Used by Facebook to tailor advertising 1 day
_hjIncludedInSample Determines if the user’s navigation should be registered in a certain statistical placeholder Session
Hubspotutk Keeps track of visitor’s identity and is passed to the HubSpot platform when web forms are submitted 1 year

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.

You can control which cookies you want stored on your computer through the settings in your web browser. You can configure your browser to accept or reject certain or all cookies, as well as see what cookies have been set. The Help menu in the toolbar of most web browsers will tell you how to change your browser’s cookie settings, including how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. 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 site.

 

Last updated: 18 March 2019