Cookie Policy
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.
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:
- Strictly necessary 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, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- 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).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. [We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.]
You can find out more about cookies by visiting the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s All about cookies website.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Strictly necessary
| Cookie name | Cookie Description | Default expiration time |
| UMB_UCONTEXT, UMB_UCONTEXT_C, UMB_UPDCHK | These are backend specific cookies. They are only seen by site administrators accessing the back end of the website. They are used in maintaining the session state of the logged in user. | Session |
| UMB-XSRF-V, UMB-XSRF-TOKEN | These cookies are used to prevent cross-site scripting attacks for your safety | Session |
| CookieControl | The cookie is used by the Cookie Control JavaScript module to remember a user's consent choices regarding other cookies on the website. | 90 days |
Analytical / Performance
| Cookie name | Cookie description | Default expiration time |
| _ga_* | Used by Google Analytics 4 to differentiate sessions and measurement hits, but do not identify users across multiple sessions. | 13 months |
| _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 1 day |
| _gat_UA-* | This cookie is a variant of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics. The cookie name includes the unique Analytics account ID and is used to limit the rate of requests sent to Google Analytics on high traffic websites. | 1 minute |
_ga | Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. | 13 months |
Functional
| Cookie name | Cookie description | Default expiration time |
| _cf_bm | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | 30 minutes |
| _cfuvid | Used to allow the Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address. | Session |
| vuid | This cookie is set by the Vimeo video player and is used solely for statistical purposes by Vimeo to track how long a viewer watches a video on the website. | 13 months |
Targeting / Advertising
| Cookie name | Cookie description | Default expiration time |
| NID | The NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google's SafeSearch filter turned on. | 1 year |
| _uetvid | Marketing cookie that is applied to the website to track users that visit the website to remarket to | 1 year |
| _uetsid | This cookie is set by Mail Chimp and is used by Bing what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. | 1 day |