Cookie Policy

We use cookies on this site to enhance your user experience

Cookies are small pieces of information saved on your computer by your browser when visiting our website. We use cookies on this website.

What is the purpose of these cookies?

We use cookies to remember your settings and preferences. You can stop your computer from saving cookies in your browser. Instructions for changing browser settings are found under "help" in the toolbar on most browsers. Although you can then still visit the site, it is possible that if cookies are not accepted certain services or parts of the site will not work optimally. Not accepting cookies limits the use of our site and its services. With your permission, we save tracking cookies on your computer. We use these cookies to remember which pages you visited to build a profile of your online behavior. This profile is not linked to your name, address, e-mail address, or suchlike.

Do cookies know who I am?

No. A cookie does not record your name, address, age, or other personal details. They only remember your preferences and interest(s) from your surfing behavior.

There are functional and non-functional cookies. Functional cookies are needed for the website to work properly or to make sure that the desired information is shown quickly and accurately each time you visit our website. For example, you do not have to enter your details, mention your preferences or change your settings again upon your next visit. Non-functional cookies tell us about the number of visitors to the website and how those visitors use the site. We can use this information to improve the website. These files automatically disappear as soon as you close your internet browser or stay saved on your computer for up to 12 months after your last visit.

There are functional and non-functional cookies. Functional cookies are needed for the website to work properly or to make sure that the desired information is shown quickly and accurately each time you visit our website. For example, you do not have to enter your details, mention your preferences or change your settings again upon your next visit. Non-functional cookies tell us about the number of visitors to the website and how those visitors use the site. We can use this information to improve the website. These files automatically disappear as soon as you close your internet browser or stay saved on your computer for up to 12 months after your last visit.

Functional cookies have uses including:

  • Remembering your login details

  • Guaranteeing the security of your login details

  • Guaranteeing the uniformity of the appearance of the website

Non-functional (analysis) cookies have uses including:

  • Counting the numbers of visitors to the website

  • Recording how visitors use the website

  • Improving the performance of the website

  • Improving your user experience on the website

You can find more information about cookies and cookie law at www.youronlinechoices.com.

List of cookies

The table below is a list of cookies used by this website. This website also works together with a number of third parties who also save cookies on your PC through our website to allow proper use of the services they offer. If you want more information about the cookies from these suppliers, or information about how you can refuse them, see the individual privacy policies of these parties in the summary below.

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 Description

OptanonContent

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. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor.

OptanonAlertBoxClosed

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. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information.

SSESS###########

This cookie is likely to be a session cookie used to maintain an anonymized user session by the server in a secure environment, often seen in sites built with the Drupal content management system.

_cfuvid (THIRD-PARTY)

This cookie helps Cloudflare apply rate limiting for traffic where multiple visitors share the same IP (e.g., behind NAT). It uses a unique visitor ID to distinguish users and enforce limits accurately.

Performance, Analytics & Fuctional 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 Description

_hjSessionUser_xxxxxx

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.

_ga_xxxxxxxxxx

NAUsed by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device.

_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 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._ga

_hjSession_xxxxxx

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.
 

___utmvxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

This cookie is used to store custom variable data at the visitor level in Google Analytics. It is used for segmenting visitors by custom dimensions.___utmv
 

__cf_bm

This is a CloudFoundry cookie.

Targeting, Social & Marketing 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 strictly 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 Description

VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA (THIRD-PARTY)

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.

YSC (THIRD-PARTY)

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.

__Secure-xxxxxxx (THIRD-PARTY)

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.

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE (THIRD-PARTY)

This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos.

Analytics cookies on this website

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activities for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where this is required by law or insofar as third parties process this data on behalf of Google. Google will never associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the installation of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however please note that if you do so you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website you consent to the processing by Google of data relating to you in the manner and for the purposes mentioned above.

For more info about the Google Analytics cookies, click here.

Another alternative to deactivate Google Analytics is to install a small plugin proposed by Google for the major browsers.