Information about our use of 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. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of 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.
We use the following cookies:
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Expires |
_ga |
Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. |
2 years after last visit |
_gid |
Used to distinguish users. |
24 hours |
ARRAffinity |
Used by Windows Azure to improve user experience. |
The length of the current session |
WAWebSiteSID |
Used by Windows Azure to identify which server instance your request goes to. |
The length of the current session |
_cfduid |
The __cfduid cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. |
1 year |
_twitter_sess |
Used by Twitter for targeting/advertising. |
The length of the current session |
K |
Used by Twitter for targeting/advertising. |
7 days |
Facebook Pixel |
Used by Facebook for tracking, optimisation and remarketing. |
180 days |
JSESSIONID |
Used by LinkedIn for targeting/advertising. |
Length of current session |
li_at |
Used by LinkedIn for targeting/advertising. |
90 days |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You 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 site.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire 2 years after last visit.