Cookies are small pieces of data assembled - when you visit and browse through a website – and stored on your device to customise and help improve your web experience.
We only use performance cookies. which track website visitors anonymously through the way they engage with our website. The information it collects includes: the number of visitors to the site, the pages visited and how a visitor found us. We collect the data through Google Analytics which allows us to improve the way the website works and make our user’s experience better. We have provided the names of the performance cookies we use below:
The _ga cookie - installed by Google Analytics - calculates visitor, session and campaign data as well as keeping track of site usage for the site's analytics report. This cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. The duration of the cookie is 1 year, 1 month and 4 days.
The _gid cookie – installed by Google Analytics - stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that gets collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. The duration of this cookie is 1 day.
The _gat cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. The duration of this cookie is 1 minute.
For Google Analytics’ Privacy Policy, please, see the link: Privacy Policy – Privacy & Terms – Google
When you enter the site, you will get the option to accept or decline our cookies. If you accept, we will collect data while you browse our site. If you change your mind or click the wrong button and want to reset your settings, you can either:
Go to your chosen web browser’s history and delete any cookies in a certain timeframe which will reset your settings for the site
Or you can view the site information by clicking on the left hand side of the search engine within your web browser where there is an icon (it can be a lock or a key depending on what browser you use). Click on the icon and that should open a small window. Within that small window, you need to find the “cookies and site data” link and click on that. From there, you can see the cookies that are tracking you or that have been blocked with the options to either enable any blocked cookies or block any active cookies.