Cookie policy
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.
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.
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 or performance cookies. These 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 in the table below:
| Cookie Title Cookie Name | Purpose | Expiry | More information |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress wordpress_logged_in_ | WordPress cookie for a logged in user. The main purpose of this cookie is: Performance | WordPress cookie for a logged in user. The main purpose of this cookie is: Performance | https://wpengine.co.uk/resources/wordpress-cookies/ |
| WordPress Security plugin wordfence_verifiedHuman | Used to protect the site against malicious attacks. The main purpose of this cookie is: Performance | Session length | https://wpengine.co.uk/resources/wordpress-cookies/ |
| Google Analytics _ga | Used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. The main purpose of this cookie is: Performance | 2 years | https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en-US |
| Google Analytics _gid | Used to distinguish users. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. The main purpose of this cookie is: Performance | 24 hours | https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en-US |
| WordPressWp-settings-1 | The cookie is used to check whether your web browser is set to allow, or reject cookies. wp-settings-1, wp-settings-time-1, these DevStat technical cookies have a duration of 1 year. WordPress uses this cookie to customize your view of the admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. | 1 year | https://wpengine.co.uk/resources/wordpress-cookies/ |
| WordPress wp-settings-time-1 | WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of the admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. | 1 year | https://wpengine.co.uk/resources/wordpress-cookies/ |
| WordPressWp-settings-1 | The cookie is used to check whether your web browser is set to allow, or reject cookies. wp-settings-1, wp-settings-time-1, these DevStat technical cookies have a duration of 1 year. WordPress uses this cookie to customize your view of the admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. | 1 year | https://wpengine.co.uk/resources/wordpress-cookies/ |
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control: Google analytics, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Lead Forensics. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
| Cookie Title Cookie Name | Purpose | Expiry | More information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linkedin AnalyticsSync History | Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries | 30 days | https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table |
| Linkedin li_oatml | Used to identify LinkedIn Members off LinkedIn for advertising and analytics outside the Designated Countries and, for a limited time, advertising in the Designated Countries | 30 Days | https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table |
| Linkedin li_sugr | Used to make a probabilistic match of a user’s identity outside the Designated Countries | 90 Days | https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table |
| Linkedin lms_analytics | Used to identify LinkedIn Members in the Designated Countries for analytics | 30 days | https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table |
| Twitter guest_id | This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for social media. | 2 Years | https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies |
| Twitter personalizatio n_id | This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for social media. | 2 Years | https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies |
| Twitter remember_ch eck_on | This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for social media. | Never | https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies |
| Twitter ct0 | This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for social media. | Ongoing | https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies |
| Twitter kdt | This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for social media. | 2 Years | https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies |
| Twitter twid | It understands if you are logged in to a Twitter account during the session | Session | https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies |
| Linkedin UserMatchHis tory | LinkedIn Ads ID syncing | 30 days | https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table |
We do not share the information collected by the cookies with any third parties.
The third party cookies on our website are activated automatically.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 2 years.