Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of data created by a website and stored by the web browser you use. Its purpose is to remember information about you. The most common purpose is to store login information for a specific site. Where you check a box that says, “Remember me” the website will generate a cookie once you successfully log in. Each time you revisit the website, you may only need to enter your password or you might not need to log in at all. There are two types of cookie, session and persistent. Session cookies are temporary and are removed when the browser is closed. These types of cookies are often used by e-commerce sites to store items placed in your shopping basket. Persistent cookies are designed to keep data for an extended period of time. A persistent cookie is created with an expiration date, which may be anywhere from a few days to several years in the future. Once the expiration date is reached, the cookie is automatically deleted. Persistent cookies are what allow websites to “remember you” for two weeks, one month, or any other amount of time.
Use of Cookies
We use cookies on your device to understand and improve our website and your browsing experience, including personalising content, adverts and social media features. We do not use cookies to collect personal information about you. We are allowed to store cookies on your computer which are essential for our website to function. For all non-essential cookies, we rely on your permission which is obtained by clicking accept and close to our cookie banner and/or the continued use of our websites.
Essential cookies – no permission required
Strictly necessary cookies: these are required for our website to function; for example, cookies enabling you to log into secure areas of our website.
Non-essential cookies:
stored on your device where we have given you notice and you have provided your implicit consent to such storage by clicking accept and close to our cookie banner and/or the continued use of our websites
- Analytical/performance cookies:these allow us to recognise and count visitor numbers and see how they navigate the website. This helps us identify improvements; for example, speeding up searches.
- Functionality cookies:these recognise you when you return to our website, enabling us to personalise content for you and remember preferences (for example, your region).
By clicking to agree to our storage of cookies on your device and/or the continued use of our websites, you give us permission to use the types of cookies set out below, in the manner and for the purposes described; see “Our Cookies”. We will record your acceptance for 60 days [MP1] before we ask you to confirm your consent again. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you choose to do this, you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.
Our Cookies
Below is a list of domains we use to track cookies:
- google.com
- google-analytics.com
- googleadservices.com
- googletagmanager.com
- doubleclick.net
- googleapis.com
- vindicosuite.com
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.
Our Essential Cookies
These cookies let you use all the different parts of our websites. Without them, services that you’ve asked for can’t be provided. Some examples of how we use these cookies are:
- Remembering actions you’ve already taken, such as text you’ve entered into a form
- Remembering security settings that affect access to certain content
Our Non-Essential Cookies
Analytical/performance cookies
Google, DoubleClick: We use a web analytics service called Google Analytics to help us identify how our customers use our website, what they like and to see where improvements can be made. For more information on how Google uses cookies, please refer to their privacy policy.
Functionality cookies
We do not currently use any functionality cookies such as “Remember My Details”.
Some of our pages include analytics provided by Google. Google may set cookies to store information and preferences about maps or other associated Google services on pages where we embed Google maps. For more information on how Google uses cookies, please refer to their privacy policy.
Targeting cookies
We do not use targeting cookies.