Cookies
Cookies are...
...small text files that are placed on your computer when you visit a website, including ours. They can be used to remember different things, including the pages you've visited on our site, or if you've used our contrast buttons.
They can also help us improve the information we provide, by monitoring how you use our site.
More information about cookies
Cookies used for tracking purposes
We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service, to help us improve:
- the information we publish
- your experience on our site
- our website's performance
_ga and _gid
Google Analytics use these cookies to gather information about the way visitors use our site, which includes number of visitors, where visitors have come to the site from, and the pages they visit.
- _ga expires after two years
- _gid expires after 24 hours.
_gid
Google Analytics uses this cookie to stop analysing visits and clicks if the traffic gets too high.
- _gid expires after one minute.
Cookies used by our website software
Our website software does not use any cookies by default. However, three cookies are created if you:
- log in to the website
- use our contrast buttons
CFID and CFTOKEN
Remembers if you've used a high or low contrast style. It stores data during your session help with website performance.
This cookie persists, even if you close your browser. It expires after two hours.
It does not store any information about you.
JSESSIONID
JESSIONID remembers who you are if you login to our site or fill in a form. It expires after you close your browser.
Other cookies we use
We may use other applications, services, and information feeds that use cookies.
YouTube
Where we publish videos on a page, we use YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode. That means YouTube won't set a cookie that tracks your viewing history. However, it will set a cookie that tells YouTube that this session shouldn't be tracked.