Cookie Policy

When someone visits our website, we use cookies to collect standard information about your general Internet usage. A cookie is a small piece of data that your Internet browser stores on your hard drive and is used when you visit the site to tailor your viewing and provide you with customised information. Only the information that you provide, or your preferences while visiting a website, can be stored in a cookie. For example, Our Site cannot determine personal details, such as your email address, unless you choose to submit them.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

Name	Purpose	Expires
Name OptanonConsent	Purpose This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category.	Expires 365 Days
Name OptanonAlertBoxClosed	Purpose This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down.	Expires 365 Days
Name eupubconsent	Purpose This cookie is used by the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework to store the user's consent to the data collection Purposes. The cookie holds an encrypted consent string that vendors participating in the framework can read and determine the user's consent.	Expires 365 Days
Name ASP.NET_SessionId	Purpose General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server.	Expires 0 days
Name BNI_persistence	Purpose Used by the traffic balancing service to run the website functionality/content requests including images and JS	Expires 0 days
Name _hjIncludedInPageviewSample	Purpose This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit.	Expires 0 days
Name _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress	Purpose This cookie is used by HotJar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie.	Expires 0 days
Name _hjFirstSeen	Purpose Identifies a new user's first session on a website, indicating whether or not Hotjar's seeing this user for the first time.	Expires 0 days
Name _hjSession_2239288	Purpose A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session.	Expires 0 days
Name _hjTLDTest	Purpose When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed.	Expires 0 days
Name _hjIncludedInSessionSample	Purpose This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit.	Expires 0 days
Name _hjSessionUser_2239288	Purpose Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.	Expires 364 days
Name _hjTLDTest	Purpose When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed.	Expires 0 days

Performance Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

Name	Purpose	Expires
Name _uetvid	Purpose This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website.	Expires 16 Days
Name _ga_8PTW8GJL1R	Purpose _ga	Expires 730 Days
Name _gat_UA-9349402-6	Purpose This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.	Expires 0
Name _ga	Purpose 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 in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.	Expires 0
Name _gat_UA-9349402-2	Purpose This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.	Expires 0
Name _ga_8PTW8GJL1R	Purpose _ga	Expires 730 Days
Name _gid	Purpose This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.	Expires 0
Name _uetvid	Purpose This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website.	Expires 365 Days
Name _clsk	Purpose Microsoft Clarity cookie to store and combine pageviews by a user into a single session recording.	Expires 0 days
Name _clck	Purpose Microsoft Clarity cookie to store a unique user ID.	Expires 358 days
Name SSESS###########	Purpose This cookie is used by Drupal to link a user to a session so that information about their visit can be stored on the server as they move from one page to the next. This cookie also helps avoid session highjacking. It expires after 23 days.	Expires 23 days
Name SM	Purpose Microsoft Clarity cookie used in synchronizing the MUID across Microsoft domains.	Expires 0 days
Name ANONCHK	Purpose Microsoft Clarity cookie which indicates whether MUID is transferred to ANID, a cookie used for advertising. Clarity doesn't use ANID and so this is always set to 0.	Expires 0
Name CLID	Purpose Microsoft Clarity Identifies the first-time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity.	Expires 364 days

Targeting Cookies

These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

Name	Purpose	Expires
Name lang	Purpose This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions.	Expires 0
Name SRM_B	Purpose This domain is owned by Mircosoft - it is the site for the search engine Bing.	Expires 389 Days
Name bcookie	Purpose This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions.	Expires 730 Days
Name bscookie	Purpose This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions.
Name AnalyticsSyncHistory	Purpose This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions.	Expires 30 Days
Name lang	Purpose This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. This sub-domain is connected with LinkedIn's marketing services that enable website owners to gain insight into types of users on their site based on LinkedIn profile data, to improve targetng.	Expires 0
Name li_gc	Purpose This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions.	Expires 725 Days
Name UserMatchHistory	Purpose This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions.	Expires 30 Days
Name MUID	Purpose This domain is owned by Mircosoft - it is the site for the search engine Bing.	Expires 390 Days
Name VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	Purpose This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos	Expires 180 Days
Name CONSENT	Purpose 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 in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.	Expires 6177 Days
Name YSC	Purpose 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 in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.	Expires 0
Name lidc	Purpose This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions.	Expires 1 Day
Name _uetsid	Purpose This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site.	Expires 365 days