What's a cookie?
• A "cookie" is a piece of information that is stored on your computer's hard drive if you agree to this and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.
• Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.
We are required to obtain your consent for all non-essential cookies used on our website. You can block cookies (including essential cookies) at any time 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 essential cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
How do we use cookies?
•We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns with regards how you are using our website. This helps us to develop and improve our website as well as products and / or services in response to what you might need or want.
•Cookies are either:
- Session cookies: these are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page but they do not collect any personal data from your computer;
or
- Persistent cookies: a persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again. [We use persistent cookies for Google Analytics.]
•Cookies can also be categorised as follows:
- Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and / or service. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.
- Performance cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.
- Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.
- 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.
- First and third party cookies: First party cookies are cookies set by our website. Third party cookies are cookies on our website that are set by a website other than our website, such as where we have adverts on our website or use Facebook pixels so that we can show you relevant content from us when you are on Facebook.
We use both first party cookies & third party cookies this website
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
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Universal Analytics (Google) |
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_ga |
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form. |
1 year |
Analytics |
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_gali |
As above |
2 months |
Functional |
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_gat |
As above |
Other |
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_gid |
As above |
2 months |
Advertisement |
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YouTube cookies PREF* VSC* VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE* remote_sid* |
We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy- enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally- identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page. PREF - * Expires after eight months | VSC - * expires at the end of your session | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE - *expires after eight months | remote_sid - * expires at the end of your session |
Necessary |
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This cookie is set by Addthis to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. |
30 minutes |
Functional |
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__atuvc |
This cookie is set by Addthis to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. |
1 year |
Functional |
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test_cookie |
This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the users' browser supports cookies. |
15 minutes |
Advertisement |
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__cfduid |
The cookie is set by CloudFare. The cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address d apply security settings on a per-client basis. It doesnot correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information. |
11 months |
Necessary |
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_ga |
This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, camapign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randoly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
2 years |
Analytics |
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mid |
The cookie is set by Instagram. The cookie is used to distinguish users and to show relevant content, for better user experience and security. |
9 years |
Functional |
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rur |
The cookie is set by instagram to enable the user to browse through the website securely by preventing any cross-site request forgery. |
Functional |
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csrftoken |
This cookie is associated with Django web development platform for python. Used to help protect the website against Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks |
11 months |
Necessary |
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_gat_UA-18740434-1 |
This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. |
1 minute |
Performance |
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_gid |
This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form. |
1 day |
Analytics |
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CookieControl |
null |
2 months |
Other |
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__cfduid |
The cookie is set by CloudFare. The cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address d apply security settings on a per-client basis. It doesnot correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information. |
11 months |
Necessary |
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ci_session |
This cookie is set as default session Cookie name in config.php in config folder in CodeIgniter. |
2 hours |
Necessary |
You can alter your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the cookie icon in the bottom left hand corner of every screen and adjusting the slider to ‘off’. If you make any changes, please refresh your page to ensure that the new settings have taken effect.
You can also control your cookie settings through your web browser.
You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 14 days.
If you have any questions about the cookies that we use, feel free to email us at [email protected]