Cookie Policy

Our Cookie Policy will change from time to time, so make sure you re-read this page periodically. You will be notified if our use of cookies changes. This cookie policy was last updated on June the 1st 2018.

Information about our use of cookies

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site and service to provide you with a better experience and to improve our site and service.

Where necessary to comply with national legislation, this site uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the site to allow or disallow the use of non-essential cookies on their computer / device. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies unless you expressly state otherwise.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that are placed on your browser or the hard drive of your device by the websites you visit. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your device'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.
  • 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 any advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:

CraftSessionId

This is the website’s content system cookie and is present to help you navigate and to store any preferences set during the visit.

DYNSRV

This cookie is added by our load balancer to track which web server to send the visitor to. Its purpose is to improve the performance of the website.

_ga

This cookie is used to collect information about how visitors use our site, which we then use to help improve it. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.

_gat

This cookie is used to collect information about how visitors use our site, which we use to help improve it. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.

__utmb

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

Used by Google Analytics to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit.

__utmt

Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.

__utmz

Used by Google Analytics to store the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached our site.

mvr_auth

This is a login token for our network.

vt_cookie_settings Stores the permission setting for each cookie listed in the cookie manager

vt_cookie_warning_dismissed This logs that the cookie warning has been dismissed so it is not shown every time

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. Such cookies (if used) are likely to be downloaded for example when you click on advertisements on our site. Typically such cookies are analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies and/or used for conversion and referral tracking and expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

Please note in particular that this site uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. Cookies provide information regarding the computer used by a visitor. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information.

You can block non-essential cookies or adjust your cookie settings on your device by activating the setting that allows you to refuse certain cookies. However, if you use your settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site and service.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after the session has finished.

For more information please read the advice at http://www.AboutCookies.org.

For more information about Google Analytics, please read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data at https://policies.google.com/privacy

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