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Our Use of Cookies

Welcome to our website’s cookie policy page. We value your privacy and want to be transparent about the cookies we use to ensure you have the best possible browsing experience.

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you are online, including on our website. We use these cookies to recognize your device during your next visits, remember your preferences, provide personalized services, and enhance the security of the website.

Here is a brief overview of the types of cookies we use:

  1. Essential Cookies: These are necessary for the site to function and cannot be switched off. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as logging in.
  2. Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources, so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.
  3. Functional Cookies: These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages, they typically make your website experience more slick – you may something say ‘hey and your name’ and that would be due to a functional cookie. They help add the little but of Wow to a website.

Remember, you can manage your cookie preferences at any time through your own browser settings.

Thank you for visiting our website, and we hope you have a great browsing experience!

Below you will find a full list, as far as we’re aware of the cookies being used by our website, with a short description of what they do and why and how long they’re set for, we aim to update this list each time a new element is added or removed from our website.

We provide this information in order to be as open as possible with our website users 🙂

You can also find our Privacy Policy here

And our Terms and Conditions here

* Cookie General reason Set for
__cfduid Used by Cloudflare to identify unique visitors to the website. 1 day
_ga Used by Google Analytics to track visitors to the website. 2 years
_gid Also used by Google Analytics to track visitors to the website. 24 hours
_gat Also used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate. 1 minute
_fbp Used by Facebook to track visitors to the website. 3 months
PHPSESSID Used by the website to store session information. Duration of the session
_gcl_aw Used by Google Ads to track the effectiveness of ads. 3 months
_gcl_dc Also used by Google Ads to track the effectiveness of ads. 1 day
__atuvc Used by AddThis to track the number of times a user has shared an article. 1 year
__atuvs Used by AddThis to track the number of times a user has visited a website. 1 year
_hjIncludedInSample Used by Hotjar to track whether a user has been included in a sample for tracking. Session
_hjSessionUserID Used by Hotjar to store a user ID for tracking. Session
_hjSessionID Used by Hotjar to store a session ID for tracking. Session
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample Used by Hotjar to track whether a user has been included in a sample for tracking pageviews. Session