We use essential cookies to make our website work properly when you visit us. We’d also like your consent to set other non-essential cookies to help us improve our website and tailor the marketing you see.
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer by websites or sometimes by emails. They provide useful information to companies; this information contributes to the ongoing development of the website in line with customer demands. They also make sure you can use our handy calculators on our website, use our social links and remember any preferences you may wish to set. For us, cookies help us to analyse how our customers interact with our sites so we can make improvements and in general make the website work better for everyone. We use three types of cookies on our websites
Session cookies that are deleted after each visit.
Persistent cookies that remain in place across multiple visits to our sites.
Third party cookies that are used by our approved business partners.
Some of these cookies are essential and some are non-essential.
Certain cookies are necessary in order for you to use our websites. These are used ‘in-session’ each time you visit and then expire when you leave the site. They’re not stored on your computer and they don’t contain any personal data. However, you can delete them via your browser if you wish to, but this will restrict the functions that you’re able to carry out on our sites. For more information about how to disable cookies in your browser please visit the About cookies website.
Here's a list of our essential cookies and what they do:
|
Cookie name |
Purpose |
Expires |
|---|---|---|
|
ASP.NET_ |
Issued by Microsoft's ASP.NET Application, this cookie stores session data during a user's website visit. |
Session |
| __Request Verification Token |
This cookie is set by web application built in ASP.NET MVC Technologies. This is an anti-forgery cookie used for preventing cross site request forgery attacks. | Session |
| CMS Landing Page Loaded |
Kentico sets this cookie, which is used to indicate that the landing page has already been visited. | 20 min |
|
__cf_bm |
This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
1 hour |
|
Current |
Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes. |
1 year |
| IsEssential Cookie Accepted |
Identifies and stores a system value based on the user's chosen consent for essential cookies (always true to load necessary cookies). | 1 year |
| IsNon Essential Cookie Accepted |
Identifies and stores a system value based on the user's chosen consent for non-essential cookies (initially set to false to prevent loading unless the user agrees) | 1 year |
| CMS Cookie Level |
Stores system value based on chosen cookie level. | 1 year |
These enable us to secure the site and you to carry out some essential functions on our sites, such as maintaining log in details for the session or a transaction. They also help by minimising the need to transfer information across the internet. They are not stored on your computer and they expire when you terminate your browser session.
These cookies are usually supplied by our business partners and help us to filter out irrelevant messages or pop-ups and to make sure that we only send you information that’s interesting and relevant to you.
These enable us to recognise repeat visitors to the site. By matching an anonymous, randomly generated identifier, we’re able to record specific browsing information such as how you arrive at the site, the pages you view, options you select, and the path you take through the site. By monitoring this information we’re able to make improvements to our sites.
|
Cookie name |
Purpose |
Expires |
|---|---|---|
|
_uetsid |
Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website. |
1 day |
|
_fbp |
Facebook sets this cookie to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting the website. |
3 months |
|
demdex |
The demdex cookie, set under the domain demdex.net, is used by Adobe Audience Manager to help identify a unique visitor across domains. |
6 months |
|
_uetvid |
Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website. |
1 year |
These cookies help us tailor the advertisements you see on third party sites by understanding what interests you on our sites, such as the pages you view. We don’t combine this information with other personal information you provide us with.
Here’s a list of non-essential cookies and what they do:
|
Cookie name |
Purpose |
Expires |
|---|---|---|
|
test_cookie |
doubleclick.net sets this cookie to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. |
15 mins |
|
__adal_ses |
Adalyser sets this cookie to determine whether there is an active session and which conversions have taken place in this session to prevent duplicates, stores a list of events in this session. |
1 hour |
|
__adal_cw |
Adalyser sets this cookie to tie back conversion events to earlier visits and stores a visit timestamp. |
7 days |
|
_gcl_au |
Google Tag Manager sets the cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. |
3 months |
|
uuid2 |
The uuid2 cookie is set by AppNexus and records information that helps differentiate between devices and browsers. This information is used to pick out ads delivered by the platform and assess the ad performance and its attribute payment. |
3 months |
|
anj |
|
3 months |
|
XANDR_PANID |
Xandr (owned by Microsoft) – used to distinguish browsers and devices |
6 months |
|
__adal_ca |
Adalyser sets this cookie to stores which advertising campaign drove a user to visit, stores traffic source and campaign data. |
6 months |
|
dpm |
The dpm cookie, set under the Demdex domain, assigns a unique ID to each visiting user, hence allowing third-party advertisers to target these users with relevant ads. |
6 months |
|
ar_debug |
This cookie is used by DoubleClick to debug ads. |
1 year |
|
IDE |
Google DoubleClick IDE cookies store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads according to the user profile. |
1 year |
|
receive-cookie-deprecation |
Google - part of a Google Chrome experiment to identify if a user's browser is in specific test groups within Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox initiative. |
1 year |
|
__adal_id |
Adalyser stores the Device ID generated by this cookie as a unique identifier for the device. |
1 year |
|
MUID |
Bing sets this cookie to recognise unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations. |
1 year |
|
_tq_id.TV- |
This cookie is used to measure reach and impressions. |
2 years |
These cookies allow you to share and like our pages through your favourite social network sites.
You can reject any non-essential cookies using our cookie banner or through your browser settings. For more information about how to disable cookies in your browser please visit the About cookies website.
If you share the use of a computer, accepting or rejecting the use of cookies will affect all users of that computer.
Find out more
You’ll find more information about cookies at www.aboutcookies.org, which gives details on how to delete cookies from your computer. For information on how to do this on your mobile phone browser, please see your handset manual.