Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we put on your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
The cookies we use are ‘analytical’ cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site 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.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:
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_ga
2 years
Used to distinguish users.
_gat
10 minutes
Used to throttle request rate.
__utmat
2 years from set/update
Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing
__utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
__utmt
10 minutes
Used to throttle request rate.
__utmb
30 mins from set/update
Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing
__utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
__utmc
End of browser session
Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the
__utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit.
__utmz
6 months from set/update
Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
__utmv
2 years from set/update
Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
eucookie
1 year
Used to record displayed cookie disclaimer notification