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 allows us to improve our site.
This Cookie Policy sets out how we use cookies on our website and emails.
Website cookies
Cookies are small text files containing a unique identifier that are stored on your computer or other device so that your device can be recognised when you are using a particular website. Cookies help us to improve your user experience when browsing our website, but they do not in any way give us access to your computer.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. If you prefer, you can modify your browser settings to disable some or all cookies. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
We only use website cookies that help us to measure how users interact with our website content. None of the cookies we use collect your personal information and they can’t be used to identify you.
We use the following cookies on our website:
| Type | Name | Expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | _ga | Expiration 2 years | This helps us count how many people visit our website by tracking if you’ve visited before. |
| Google Analytics | _gid | Expiration 24 hours | This helps us count how many people visit our website by tracking if you’ve visited before. |
| Google Analytics | _gat | Expiration 1 minute | This is used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made. |
| Vimeo | vuid | Expiration 2 years | When you press play Vimeo will use this cookie to collect analytics data such as how long a viewer has watched the video. These cookies do not track individuals. |
| Vimeo | player | Expiration 1 year | This cookie saves your settings before you play an embedded Vimeo video. This means that the next time you watch a Vimeo video, you will get your preferred settings back. |
Cookies in emails
As well as the cookies we use on our websites, we use cookies and similar technologies in some emails. These help us understand whether you’ve opened an email and how you’ve interacted with it. They also ensure that if you unsubscribe, we don’t email you again. If you have enabled images, cookies may be set on your computer or device. Cookies will also be set if you click on any link within the email.
The types of cookies we use are:
- Web beacons: they tell us whether you’ve opened the email, when, and how often, the location and whether you clicked a link. We also use web beacons to help us display emails in the best format for your device.
- Link tracking: our emails contain a number of hyperlinks, each of which has a unique tag. When you click on one of these links the mailing company logs the click so that we can understand who has clicked through from an email to our website.
We use this information to view how effective our mailings are.