Information about our use of Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. 

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. 

This policy should be read together with our Privacy Notice which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and the Information Commissioner in the event you have a complaint. 

We use the following cookies: 

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. 

  • Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. 

  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). 

  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. 

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below. 

NECESSARY COOKIES 

Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. 

MARKETING/ANALYTICS 

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. 


Cookie: Crumb 

Purpose: Squarespace sets this cookie to prevent cross-site request forgery (CSRF). 

Duration: session 

Type: Necessary 

 

Cookie: ss_cvr 

Purpose: SquareSpace sets this cookie to identify unique visitors and track a visitor’s sessions on a site. 

Duration: 1 year 1 month 4 days 

Type: Analytics 

 

Cookie: ss_cvt 

Purpose: SquareSpace sets this cookie to identify unique visitors and track a visitor’s sessions on a site. 

Duration: 30 minutes 

Type: Analytics 

 

Cookie: _ga_* 

Purpose: Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. 

Duration: 1 year 1 month 4 days 

Type: Analytics 

 

Cookie: _ga 

Purpose: Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. 

Duration: 1 year 1 month 4 days 

Type: Analytics 

  

TURNING OFF COOKIES 

If you do not want to accept cookies, you can change your browser settings so that they are not accepted, but this may lead to reduced website functionality. For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the Information Commissioner’s webpage on cookies: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/.

Read our full Privacy Policy here.


This Policy was last updated on 15 May 2023.