Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The sections below explain the cookies we use and why.

Essential cookies

These cookies are essential in helping you to move around our website and to use features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, some services may not function.

These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet.

Craft token cookie (CRAFT_CSRF_TOKEN): This is a security feature to protect against Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.

Cookie consent status cookie (WJ_​_​cookieConsentStatus): Remembers a user’s preference on whether they have opted in to receive non-essential cookies on this site.

Google account cookies (APISID, SAPISID, HSID, SID, SIDCC, SEARCH_SAMESITE, CONSENT, NID, SNID, SSID, AEC, DV, __Secure-1PAPISID, __Secure-1PSID, __Secure-3PAPISID, __Secure-3PSIDCC, __Secure-3PSID, __Secure-ENID): Set by Google because we use their plugins reCAPTCHA and Google Translate. Only set if you are logged into your Google account (so log out of your account to stop them from being set). Some are used for security and others are used to help customise adverts on Google properties, such as Google Search (you will have agreed to this arrangement as part of signing up for a Google account). More information: policies.google.com 

Google reCAPTCHA cookie (_GRECAPTCHA): Set by reCAPTCHA for the purpose of providing its risk analysis. More information: developers.google.com/recaptcha

Non-essential cookies

Some cookies, like those that are used to measure how you use our website, are not needed for our website to work. These cookies can help us make our website better, but we’ll only use them if you say it’s OK.

Google Analytics tracking cookies (_​ga, _​gid): Set by Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. More information: developers.google.com/analytics 

Hotjar tracking cookies (_​hjFirstSeen, _​hjIncludedInSessionSample, _hjSession_[SiteID], _hjSessionUser_[SiteID]): Set by Hotjar to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. More information: help.hotjar.com

Throttling cookie (_gat_[AnalyticsID]): Set by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate.

Experiment cookie (_​gaexp): Used by Google Analytics to determine a user’s inclusion in an experiment.

Google ad tracking cookie (_​gcl_​au): Set by Google Tag Manager to store and track conversions when an ad is clicked.

Bot filtering cookie (gtm_​isp_​lookup): Set by Google Tag Manager to help filter out spam bots by ISP.