Cookies policy
Cookies policy
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website and services. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you visit our website or use our services and allows us to improve our website and services for your benefit.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites store on your browser or your computer to help distinguish you from other users. We use cookies to help us provide you with a better experience when you browse our website and help us to improve our site through monitoring visitor interest and behaviour anonymously.
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. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings, but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our website.
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.
What cookies do we use on our site?
Name | Use | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
addtl_consent | Strictly necessary | This cookie is used to record your consent status for cookies. |
euconsent-v2 | Strictly necessary | This cookie is used to record your consent status for cookies. |
Usprivacy | Strictly necessary | This cookie is used to store your consent state regarding tracking and privacy in compliance with the United States privacy regulation. |
_ga | Analytical | This cookie is used by our analytics software to monitor which pages are visited and allow us to make improvements to the website by analysing visitors interest and behaviour. All data collected is anonymous. |
__exponea_etc__ | Analytical | This is used for user communication for service and marketing. |
__exponea_time2__ | Analytical | This is used for user communication for service and marketing. |
ai_session | Analytical | This cookie is used by our analytics software to monitor which pages are visited and allow us to make improvements to the website by analysing visitors interest and behaviour. All data collected is anonymous. |
ai_user _ | Analytical | This cookie is used by our analytics software to monitor which pages are visited and allow us to make improvements to the website by analysing visitors interest and behaviour. All data collected is anonymous. |
_gid | Analytical | This cookie is used for Google Analytics to store and update a unique value for each page visited. |
__gads | Targeting | This cookie enables the website to show Google ads and to provide advert delivery or retargeting. |
__qca | Targeting | This cookie is used by Quantcast to store consent. |
consent_ | Functionality | This cookie is used to handle the consent given by the user that allows us to show the newsletter and browser push web layers. |
_pbjs_userid_consent_data | Functionality | This cookie is used to store information regarding your consent for the handling of personal data or services. |
country_code | Functionality | This cookie is used to store the country code of your location to provide localised content and improve the user experience by displaying content relevant to your geographical location. |
Third party cookies
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.
Advertising
·Adprime
Amazon
AppNexus
Google
Index Exchange
Media.net
Nativo
Online Media Solutions
Pubmatic
PulsePoint
TanMedia
TapNative
Teads
TripleLift
Some of the advertising partners above will also use other advertising networks on the approved IAB Vendors list https://iabeurope.eu/vendor-list-tcf/
Site Analytics
Google Analytics
Azure Application Insights
Quantcount
GA Audiences
Social Media
Facebook Connect
Changing privacy and cookies, including in your browser
You can choose which analytical, functionality and targeting cookies we can set on our website via on the cookie banner, or by clicking on the privacy settings icon at the bottom left of the webpage. You may also deactivate the use of third-party advertising cookies by the cookie banner or privacy settings icon.
However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
We have provided links below to instructions for all the major browsers on how to change your cookie settings:
Last revised 12 May 2025