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.
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/performance cookies. They 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.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, 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.
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.
Cookies We Use
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use on our site and the purposes for which we use them below:
Analytics Cookies
Google Analytics Cookies:
utma - Used to distinguish users and sessions when they connect to our site
Type: Analytics/performance cookie Content: Randomly generated number
Provider: Google Analytics Duration: 2 years
utmb - Used to determine new sessions/visits
Type: Analytics/performance cookie Content: Randomly generated number
Provider: Google Analytics Duration: 30 mins
utmc - This cookie is set for interoperability data analytics software. This cookie operates in conjunction with the _utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit
Type: Analytics/performance cookie Content: Randomly generated number
Provider: Google Analytics Duration: duration of visit / 1 year
utmz - Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how you reached our site
Type: Analytics/performance cookie Content: Randomly generated number + information on how our site was reached (e.g. directly or via a link, organic search or paid search)
Provider: Google Analytics Duration: 6 months
utmt - This cookie is used to limit the amount of data that is collected on sites with a lot of traffic
Type: Analytics/performance cookie
Provider: Google Analytics Duration: The duration of your visit to our site
Targeting Cookies:
Non at this time
Essential Cookies:
ccm-sitemap-selector-tab – how the sitemap/tabs are rendered
Type: Essential Content: text string Sitemap Provider: CMS Duration: 1 Year
Concrete5 – Cookie set by the website content management system (CMS) to check if the user is logged into an account or not when visiting the website.
Type: Essential Content: text string Provider: CMS Duration: 1 Year
Concrete5_Login – Cookie set by the website content management system (CMS) to check if the user is logged into an account or not when visiting the website.
Type: Essential Content: text string Provider: CMS Duration: 1 Year
cpsession – Cookie set by the website content management system (CMS) used to maintain user session variables It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages. The main purpose of this cookie is: Strictly NecessaryType: Essential Content: text string Provider: CMS Duration: 1 Year
timezone - Cookie set by the website content management system (CMS) used to establish the websites timezone
Type: Essential Content: text string Provider: CMS Duration: 1 Year