Cookie Policy Specialist: Privacy & Data Practices

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• Web beacons
• Copyright
• used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or
• strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.

Name of Cookie

Essential or Non-essential?
Type of cookie
First or Third party?
Session or Persistent?
Expiry Time
Purpose

__utma Non-essential Analytics First party persistent 2 years from set/update Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the java script library executes and no existing __utma cookies exist. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

__utmt Non-essential Analytics First party persistent 10 minutes Used to throttle request rate.

__utmb Non-essential Analytics First party persistent 30 minutes from set/update Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the java script library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exist. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

__utmc Non-essential Analytics First party session End of browser session Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit.

__utmz Non-essential Analytics First party persistent 6 months from set/update Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached our website. The cookie is created when java script library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

PHPSESSID essential Core site functionality First party session End of browser session Used to remember if the splash screen has already been seen. Without it the splash would be seen on every page.

Legitimate interests: ensuring our site functions properly and providing you with online services you have requested.

Legitimate interests
: improving your website experience and providing or enhancing the website functionality you have requested and analysing how users use the website to provide feedback for future site development.

More information

Other technologies

We and marketing companies/mailing list providers we use also embed web beacons in our marketing emails.

Legal basis for processing:we process the information we gather from the use of web beacons in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest:analysing the effectiveness of our email marketing campaigns. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of web beacons, including profiling please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here:

You can opt in to us using web beacons in our marketing emails by: selecting the relevant box in your preferences when you opt in to receive marketing emails or selecting the relevant box in your preferences via the link “update your preferences” in the footer of any marketing email you receive from us.

You can opt out of our use of web beacons in our marketing emails by: sending us an email to  stating that you object to our use of web beacons in our marketing emails.

European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance Tool

You can opt out of Facebook and other companies that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe from showing you interest based ads by visiting , selecting your country, clicking ‘Your Ad Choices’, then locating Facebook (and any other companies you want to block) and selecting the ‘Off’ option.