Cookies

Cookies are small text files sent to your computer or mobile device by the websites that you visit. They help make websites work better and provide information to the owners of the site. For instance, this site uses YouTube cookies to embed videos in its pages and Google Analytics cookies to track users’ behaviour whilst on the site. By understanding how people use our site, we can improve the navigation and content to better meet people’s needs. The information collected includes IP address, pages visited, browser and operating system. The data will not be used to identify any user personally. The cookies we use on our site are:

Cookie

Name

Description & Purpose

Google Analytics

_utma

Like _ga, this lets us know if you’ve visited before, so we can count how many of our visitors are new to the site or to a certain page

 

_utmb

This works with _utmc to calculate the average length of time you spend on the site

 

_utmc

This works with _utmb to calculate when you close your browser

 

_utmz

This tells us how you reached the site (e.g. from another website or a search engine)

Cookie control widget

seen-cookie-message

Stores your cookie control preference. This is always set.

SESSION cookie PHPSESSID This stores log in information for administrators when they log in.