Cookie Policy
We use information collected through cookies and similar technologies to improve your experience on our website and analyse how you use it. Because we respect your right to privacy, you can opt out of allowing certain types of cookies. However, blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience of the site and the services we are able to offer. In some cases, data obtained from cookies is shared with third parties for analytics reasons. You can exercise your right to opt out of that sharing at any time by disabling or declinging cookies.
What are Cookies?
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
How we use cookies
Cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not.
We use Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity generate statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google and Microsoft will store this information.
Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, a cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you. We are committed to conducting our business in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained.
System & Cookie Consent storage
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These cookies are necessary and are set by our cookie consent system to remember your consent preference.
These cookies are stored for 6 months.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics tool provided by Google Ireland Limited (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help the website analyse how users use the website. This uses first-party cookies to:
- Distinguish unique users
- Distinguish sessions for a user
The cookies used by Google Analytics are:
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Expires after 2 years
Used to distinguish users.
_gid
Expires after 24 hours
Used to distinguish users.
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Expires after 2 years
Used to persist session state.
Microsoft Clarity
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Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences, unique to that site is attributed to the same user ID.
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Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording.
CLID
Identifies the first-time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity.
MR
Indicates whether to refresh MUID.
MUID
Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes.
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Used in synchronizing the MUID across Microsoft domains.
How to control and delete cookies
We do not use cookies to collect information about you which is personally identifiable. If you wish to restrict or block the cookies on our website, you can do this through the ‘Manage Consent’ button in the footer, consent pop-up or via your browser settings. Your browser’s built-in ‘Help’ option will give you details on how to achieve this or you can visit the All About Cookies website, which offers additional guidance.