Use of Cookies

Most websites you visit will use cookies in order to improve your user experience by enabling that website to ‘remember’ you, either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’).

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences, and generally improving your experience of a website. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier. If a website doesn’t use cookies, it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site – for example, when you enter your login details and move to another page it won’t recognise you and it won’t be able to keep you logged in.

Some websites will also use cookies to enable them to target their advertising or marketing messages based for example, on your location and/or browsing habits.

Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting (‘first party cookies’) or they may be set by other websites who run content on the page you are viewing (‘third party cookies’).

What is in a cookie?

A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers. It allows a website to remember things like your preferences or what’s in your shopping basket.

What to do if you don’t want cookies to be set

Some people find the idea of a website storing information on their computer or mobile device a bit intrusive, particularly when this information is stored and used by a third party without them knowing. Although this is generally quite harmless you may not, for example, want to see advertising that has been targeted to your interests. If you prefer, it is possible to block some or all cookies, or even to delete cookies that have already been set; but you need to be aware that you might lose some functions of that website.

Cookies used by this website

This website sets a small number of cookies, as listed below

Cookie

Description

SESSxxxxxxxxxx

This is a "session cookie" and just allows the website to maintain things across pages, like the contents of a shopping cart

has_js

Tells the code that manipulates parts of the page whether you have javascript enabled in your web browser.

__utma

__utmb

__utmc

__utmz

These cookies are set by Google Analytics anonymously so that we can see how many people are visiting the website and which areas are popular.  We can  then use this information to improve the website.

__hs_opt_out

This cookie is used by the opt-in privacy policy to remember not to ask the visitor to accept cookies again.

This cookie is set when you give visitors the choice to opt out of cookies.

It contains the string "yes" or "no".

It expires in 6 months.

__hs_do_not_track

This cookie can be set to prevent the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot.

It contains the string "yes".

It expires in 6 months.

 hs_ab_test

This cookie is used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an A/B test page they’ve seen before.

It contains the id of the A/B test page and the id of the variation that was chosen for the visitor.

It expires at the end of the session.

 __hs_notify_banner_dismiss

This cookie is used when the website uses a Notify consent banner type.

It contains a boolean value of True.

It expires in 180 days.

__hs_gpc_banner_dismiss

This cookie is used when the Global Privacy Control banner is dismissed.

It contains the string "yes" or "no".

It expires in 180 days.

__hs_cookie_cat_pref

This cookie is used to record the categories a visitor consented to.

It contains data on the consented categories.

It expires in 6 months.

__hs_initial_opt_in

This cookie is used to prevent the banner from always displaying when visitors are browsing in strict mode.

It contains the string "yes" or "no".

It expires in seven days.

__cfruid

 

This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider because of their rate limiting policies. It expires at the end of the session. Learn more about Cloudflare cookies. 

__cfuvid

This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider because of their rate limiting policies. It expires at the end of the session. Learn more about Cloudflare cookies. 

__cf_bm

This cookie is set by HubSpot's CDN provider and is a necessary cookie for bot protection. It expires in 30 minutes. Learn more about Cloudflare cookies. 

__hstc

The main cookie for tracking visitors.

It contains the domain, hubspotutk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session).

It expires in 6 months.

hubspotutk

This cookie keeps track of a visitor's identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts.

It contains an opaque GUID to represent the current visitor.

It expires in 6 months.

__hssc

This cookie keeps track of sessions.

This is used to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie.

It contains the domain, viewCount (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp.

It expires in 30 minutes.

__hssrc

Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser.

If this cookie does not exist when HubSpot manages cookies, it is considered a new session.

It contains the value "1" when present.

It expires at the end of the session.