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Cookie Notice

We pride ourselves in providing an excellent service to our customers. For us to provide and continually improve this service, we use cookies for a number of reasons. Some cookies are essential to make the site function and help provide security. Some cookies are non-essential to help us improve your experience. We'd like to explain about how and why we use them. 

Some cookies make websites work better

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer by websites or sometimes by emails. They provide useful information to companies; this information contributes to the ongoing development of the website in line with customer demands. They also make sure you can use our handy calculators on our website, use our social links and remember any preferences you may wish to set. For us, cookies help us to analyse how our customers interact with our sites so we can make improvements and in general make the website work better for everyone. We use three types of cookies on our websites

  • Session cookies that are deleted after each visit.

  • Persistent cookies that remain in place across multiple visits to our sites.

  • Third party cookies that are used by our approved business partners.


Some of these cookies are essential and some are non-essential.

Essential cookies

Certain cookies are necessary in order for you to use our websites. These are used ‘in-session’ each time you visit and then expire when you leave the site. They’re not stored on your computer and they don’t contain any personal data. However, you can delete them via your browser if you wish to, but this will restrict the functions that you’re able to carry out on our sites. For more information about how to disable cookies in your browser please visit the About cookies website.

Here's a list of our essential cookies and what they do:
 

Cookie name

Purpose

Expires  

ASP.NET_
SessionId

Issued by Microsoft's ASP.NET Application, this cookie stores session data during a user's website visit.

Session

__Request
Verification
Token
This cookie is set by web application built in ASP.NET MVC Technologies. This is an anti-forgery cookie used for preventing cross site request forgery attacks. Session
CMS
Landing
Page
Loaded
Kentico sets this cookie, which is used to indicate that the landing page has already been visited. 20 min

__cf_bm

This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management.

1 hour

Current
Contact

Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes.

1 year

IsEssential
Cookie
Accepted
Identifies and stores a system value based on the user's chosen consent for essential cookies (always true to load necessary cookies). 1 year
IsNon
Essential
Cookie
Accepted
Identifies and stores a system value based on the user's chosen consent for non-essential cookies (initially set to false to prevent loading unless the user agrees) 1 year
CMS
Cookie
Level
Stores system value based on chosen cookie level. 1 year
 

Session cookies

These enable us to secure the site and you to carry out some essential functions on our sites, such as maintaining log in details for the session or a transaction. They also help by minimising the need to transfer information across the internet. They are not stored on your computer and they expire when you terminate your browser session.

Non-essential cookies

These cookies are usually supplied by our business partners and help us to filter out irrelevant messages or pop-ups and to make sure that we only send you information that’s interesting and relevant to you.
 

Analytics cookies

These enable us to recognise repeat visitors to the site. By matching an anonymous, randomly generated identifier, we’re able to record specific browsing information such as how you arrive at the site, the pages you view, options you select, and the path you take through the site. By monitoring this information we’re able to make improvements to our sites.

Cookie name

Purpose

Expires  

_uetsid

Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website.

1 day

_fbp

Facebook sets this cookie to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting the website.

3 months

demdex

The demdex cookie, set under the domain demdex.net, is used by Adobe Audience Manager to help identify a unique visitor across domains.

6 months

_uetvid

Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website.

1 year

 

Marketing cookies

These cookies help us tailor the advertisements you see on third party sites by understanding what interests you on our sites, such as the pages you view. We don’t combine this information with other personal information you provide us with.

Here’s a list of non-essential cookies and what they do:

Cookie name

Purpose

Expires

test_cookie

doubleclick.net sets this cookie to determine if the user's browser supports cookies.

15 mins

__adal_ses

Adalyser sets this cookie to determine whether there is an active session and which conversions have taken place in this session to prevent duplicates, stores a list of events in this session.

1 hour

__adal_cw

Adalyser sets this cookie to tie back conversion events to earlier visits and stores a visit timestamp.

7 days

_gcl_au

Google Tag Manager sets the cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services.

3 months

uuid2

The uuid2 cookie is set by AppNexus and records information that helps differentiate between devices and browsers. This information is used to pick out ads delivered by the platform and assess the ad performance and its attribute payment.

3 months

anj


AppNexus sets the anj cookie that contains data stating whether a cookie ID is synced with partners.

3 months

XANDR_PANID

Xandr (owned by Microsoft) – used to distinguish browsers and devices

6 months

__adal_ca

Adalyser sets this cookie to stores which advertising campaign drove a user to visit, stores traffic source and campaign data.

6 months

dpm

The dpm cookie, set under the Demdex domain, assigns a unique ID to each visiting user, hence allowing third-party advertisers to target these users with relevant ads.

6 months

ar_debug

This cookie is used by DoubleClick to debug ads.

1 year

IDE

Google DoubleClick IDE cookies store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads according to the user profile.

1 year

receive-cookie-deprecation

Google - part of a Google Chrome experiment to identify if a user's browser is in specific test groups within Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox initiative.

1 year

__adal_id

Adalyser stores the Device ID generated by this cookie as a unique identifier for the device. 

1 year

MUID

Bing sets this cookie to recognise unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations.

1 year

_tq_id.TV-

This cookie is used to measure reach and impressions.

2 years

 

Social cookies

These cookies allow you to share and like our pages through your favourite social network sites.

You can accept or block non-essential cookies

You can reject any non-essential cookies using our cookie banner or through your browser settings. For more information about how to disable cookies in your browser please visit the About cookies website.

If you share the use of a computer, accepting or rejecting the use of cookies will affect all users of that computer.

Find out more
You’ll find more information about cookies at www.aboutcookies.org, which gives details on how to delete cookies from your computer. For information on how to do this on your mobile phone browser, please see your handset manual.

Page last updated: Monday 08 April 2024