Cookies Policy
Cookies
Our Website uses cookies for the purposes set out in the table in our Privacy Policy. You will be asked to consent to certain types of cookies when you first visit our site.
What are cookies?
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.
Our Website uses cookies and other similar technologies (together referred to as “cookies” in this policy) 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.
What types of cookies do we use?
We use the following types of cookies:
Essential cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website.
Analytics 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).
Marketing 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, for example, we share information with Facebook to target advertisement at you via your Facebook or Instagram pages using Facebook Custom Audiences.
The tables below explain the cookies we use and why.
For more information about how to change your cookie preferences, please see below.
Essentials cookies
Name and Type | __cf _bm |
|---|---|
Purpose | 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. |
Cookie Duration | 1 day |
Name and Type | CookieConsent |
|---|---|
Purpose | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain |
Cookie Duration | 1 year |
Name and Type | _hssc |
|---|---|
Purpose | Identifies if the cookie data needs to be updated in your browser |
Cookie Duration | 1 day |
Name and Type | _hssrc |
|---|---|
Purpose | Used to recognise your browser upon re-entry on the website. |
Cookie Duration | Browser session |
Name and Type | _gat |
|---|---|
Purpose | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate |
Cookie Duration | 1 day |
Name and Type | fr |
|---|---|
Purpose | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
Cookie Duration | 3 months |
Analytics cookies
Name and type | _hstc |
|---|---|
Purpose | Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on your behavior for statistical purposes |
Cookies duration | 1 year |
Name and type | _ga |
|---|---|
Purpose | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how you use the website |
Cookies duration | 2 years |
Name and type | _gid |
|---|---|
Purpose | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how you use the website. |
Cookies duration | 1 day |
Name and type | hubspotuk |
|---|---|
Purpose | Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on your behavior for statistical purposes |
Cookies duration | 1 year |
Name and type | li_gc |
|---|---|
Purpose | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain |
Cookies duration | 2 years |
Marketing cookies
Name and Type | _fbp |
|---|---|
Purpose | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
Cookie Duration | 3 months |
Third Party Cookies
Some of the cookies we use are set by third parties. We work with other companies, such as search engine providers, so that we can learn more about our customers, in order to understand performance and engagement, provide a personalised experience and deliver more relevant advertising. The table below further explains the third party cookies that are used on our Website and their purposes.
To learn more about how these third parties process personal data, to the extent relevant, follow the links in the table below to the third party privacy notice.
Functionality cookies
Third Party | lang |
|---|---|
Purpose | Remembers your selected language version of a website. Set by LinkedIn when a web page contains an embedded “Follow us” panel |
Cookie Duration | Browser session |
Link to third party privacy notice |
Analytics cookies
Third Party | AnalyticsSyncHistory |
|---|---|
Purpose | Used in connection with data-synchronization with third-party analysis service |
Cookie Duration | 30 days |
Link to third party privacy notice |
Marketing cookies
Third Party | bcookie |
|---|---|
Purpose | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
Cookie Duration | 2 years |
Link to third party privacy notice |
Third Party | bscookie |
|---|---|
Purpose | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services |
Cookie Duration | 2 years |
Link to third party privacy notice |
Third Party | lidc |
|---|---|
Purpose | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
Cookie Duration | 1 day |
Link to third party privacy notice |
Third Party | tr |
|---|---|
Purpose | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
Cookie Duration | Browser session |
Link to third party privacy notice |
Third Party | UserMatchHistory |
|---|---|
Purpose | Used to track you on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on your preferences. |
Cookie Duration | 30 days |
Link to third party privacy notice |
Third Party | _ptq.gif |
|---|---|
Purpose | Sends data to the marketing platform Hubspot about your device and behaviour. Tracks across devices and marketing channels. |
Cookie Duration | Browser session |
Link to third party privacy notice |
How do I change my cookie preferences?
You can control which types of cookie are set by changing your preferences through our cookie banner when you first visit our Website or at any time by using the preference table below:
Cookie preferences
Cookie Type | Marketing Cookies |
|---|---|
Set Preference | On/Off |
Cookie Type | Analytics Cookies |
|---|---|
Set Preference | On/Off |
Cookie Type | Essential Cookies |
|---|---|
Set Preference | On These cannot be disabled as they are required for the Website to work |
How can I control my cookie preferences in settings?
Cookies can also be controlled by your web browser settings. Whether our cookies are used will depend on your browser settings, so you are in control. 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 and you will not receive a personalised service.