Cookies


When you visit this site, we may send (and store) a cookie on your computer. A cookie is a small text file sent by a web server to a web browser (Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer, for example). This cookie enables the website or web server to collect specific, but restricted, information from the web browser about the visitor (that’s you).

We may use cookies to help us remember you when you visit the site again and to note which page, or pages, you view and any specific preferences that you might have selected along the way – we may use this information to personalise the content that is shown to you or to prevent certain things from happening, such as an informative popup from being shown to you twice.

We may use a number of social media tools, both 3rd party and custom built, to enhance visitor interaction (such as “Like”, “Share” or “Tweet”) on our site. If you already use these platforms their cookies may be set through our website and may be linked to your account with that provider. Data may then be used by them to customise certain adverts or functionality on their site(s) based on your usage of their service from this site.

We may use other 3rd party cookies (set from other websites, e.g. Google) to compile and store anonymous statistics about browsing patterns or site behaviour and build up a demographic profile. This data is collected along with other visitor data to form a collective analytics report. It’s important to note that this data is not personally identifiable to you and is only used for reporting/statistical purposes.

You are not obliged to accept any cookies from this site and most browsers allow you to decline the acceptance of cookies. If you want to know how to do this, please look at the Help menu on your browser or contact your system administrator. Please note that if you disable any cookies, certain services or pages on this website may not be available to you, or may not function as intended.
We use various cookies on this site. These range from long-term cookies (to remember you, or your preferences), to short-term, or session based, cookies that “expire” when you close your browser window. Where appropriate, we will outline which cookies are a requirement of this site or a certain section or function within it that are needed in order to operate correctly.

Below is a list of cookies that are actively set and used on this site. This list has been created to inform you and make you aware of how we make use of cookies. This list has been tailored specifically for this site:

NameTypeOwnerExpiresRequired?
__utmaLong TermGoogle (Analytics)2 YearsNo
__utmbShort TermGoogle (Analytics)30 MinutesNo
__utmcSessionGoogle (Analytics)End of SessionNo
__utmzLong TermGoogle (Analytics)6 MonthsNo
gcms10gcms_sessionShort TermOutside Line1 HourYes