To comply with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations we periodically conduct a Cookie Audit of our website. This Cookie Audit was last updated on 28 August 2012.
Our website uses a number of cookies to store data on our visitor's computers. For more information about managing cookies, please see http://www.aboutcookies.org/.
Our current assessment of the intrusiveness of the cookies used by our website is as follows:
Strictly necessary cookies: Some cookies are strictly necessary in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, we will not be able to determine the number of unique users of the site or provide certain features, such as automatic sign in to our services.
Performance cookies: We use Performance cookies on our website for internal purposes to help us to provide you with a better user experience. Information supplied by cookies helps us to understand how our visitors use the websites so that we can improve how we present our content to you. We generally contract with independent measurement and research companies to perform these services for us and when this is the case, these cookies may be set by a third party company (third party cookies).
Functionality cookies: Functionality cookies record information about choices you've made and allow us to tailor the website to you. Functionality cookies may also take the form of Flash cookies, which are stored in your Adobe Flash Player rather than your browser.
Targeting or advertising cookies: Cookies can be used to work out what advertising might be most relevant to you based on the areas you look at on our sites and your IP address geo-location.
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sfhpt_173 |
End of session |
These are temporary session cookie set by Joomla to keep a track of each individual visitor. It allows Joomla to send the correct information to each website visitor without getting each one mixed up. They are essential for the smooth operation of the website. |
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SID |
End of session |
These are cookies set by the Google Maps component within Joomla. Google Maps is used on direction pages to provide detailed information on how to locate the office. Google Maps stores up to 7 cookies: SID, HSID, SSID, APISID NID and PREF. Google's interactive maps are used because they provide a helpful way for visitors to identify how best to travel to the office. |
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NID |
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12 months |
This Joomla cookie saves the username and password details so that the visitor doesn’t need to type in the username and password again to login on their next visit. |
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reg_fb_gate |
End of session |
The Like button lets a user share content with friends on Facebook. When the user clicks the Like button on your site, a story appears in the user's friends' News Feed with a link back to your website. |
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2 years |
Used by Google Analytics. Each unique browser that visits a page on the site is provided with a unique ID via the __utma cookie. In this way, subsequent visits to the website via the same browser are recorded as belonging to the same (unique) visitor. Thus, if a person interacted with the website using different browsers, the Analytics reports would track this activity under two unique visitors. Similarly if the same browser were used by two different visitors, but with a separate computer account for each, the activity would be recorded under two unique visitor IDs. On the other hand, if the browser happens to be used by two different people sharing the same computer account, one unique visitor ID is recorded, even though two unique individuals accessed the site. |
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_utmb |
30 min |
Google Analytics uses these two cookies to establish a session. If either of these two cookies is absent, further activity by the user initiates the start of a new session. |
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_utmc |
End of session |
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_utmz |
6 months |
When visitors reach the site via a search engine result, a direct link, or an ad that links to the page, Google Analytics stores the type of referral information in a cookie. The parameters in the cookie value string are parsed and sent in the GIF Request (in the utmcc variable). The expiration date for the cookie is set as 6 months into the future. This cookie gets updated with each subsequent page view to the site; thus it is used to determine visitor navigation within the site. |
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We occasionally trial other services which may create cookies on your computer such as the ones listed below.
Flash: We rarely use Flash technology on our website, however in some limited circumstances we may use Flash and this will result in additional cookies being placed on your computer.
YouTube video: We may periodically use the YouTube service to host video content, and embed YouTube's player in our web pages to allow you to watch the video without leaving our website. YouTube's embedded player currently creates and updates two Flash LSO objects from s.ytimg.com. The LSOs are soundData (which stores volume setting preferences) and videostats (which stores performance-related information). We have no direct control over YouTube's use of the data stored in this object. For more information, please read YouTube's privacy policy at http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/policies/.
For more information about how we use cookies, please contact us.
