Cookie Policy

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.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

Analytical or performance cookies. These 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).

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table:

Cookie Title

Cookie Name

Purpose

More information

Expiry Date

Analytical or performance cookie

_ga & _gid

This cookie is used for analytics. It enables us to estimate our audience size and usage pattern.

Google Analytics

2 Years

Functional cookie

Professional-modal

 

This cookie is essential for our site as allows you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient and relevant to you. It controls if the ‘Are you an industry professional’ modal should be displayed or not and will navigate you to the correct area of information. It only appears on a person’s first visit to our website.

Professional modal

365 Days

Functional cookie

_cookie-bar

This cookie is in place to show each user a cookie notice when using the website.

Cookie Notice

365 Days

 

Third party cookies

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

 

How to turn off cookies

You can 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 website.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after the date shown in the table above.