Cookies 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 are generated when you visit a website and are stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer, provided you have agreed to this.
We may use the following cookies:
- Essential 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 or make use of e-billing services.
- Non-essential cookies. These include the following:
- 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 not use this information with respect to displaying any advertising to you and we will not share any of this information with third parties.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Essential Cookies | Purpose | Expiration | More information |
|---|---|---|---|
| data | This cookie is used for the purposes of user authorisation. Information collected through this cookie is used to access, download and encrypt or unencrypt data sets accessed by users on the Site. | 24 hours | |
| __stripe_mid __stripe_sid |
Technical session cookie, used by the Stripe payment gateway. | 1 year 30 min |
When you initially provide or update your payment information, we transmit it via an encrypted connection to our Payment Processor, Stripe. Stripe uses and processes your payment information in accordance with Stripe’s Privacy Policy https://stripe.com/gb/privacy. We don’t store your payment information, other than your post code and country, which we require for billing and to comply with tax and other government regulations. |
| _ga | Used to distinguish users | 2 years | Further information available at: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users | 24 hours | Further information available at: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
| _gat | Used to throttle request rate. | 1 minute | Further information available at: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
| AMP_TOKEN | Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. | 30 seconds to 1 year | Further information available at: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
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 block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. 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. Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after the period indicated in the table above.
Updated October 2018