Cookie Policy
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.
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 in the table below:
Cookie Name | Purpose | Expires |
catAccCookies
| Cookie set by the UK cookie consent plugin to record that you accept the fact that the site uses cookies. | 1 month |
_ga | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. | 2 years after last visit |
_gid | Used to distinguish users. | 24 hours |
PHPSESSID | This ID is used by the website to identify you during your session. A lot of the time it isn’t used at all, but if you decide to do something complex during your visit that isn’t simply clicking a link to move from one page to another (such as filling out a form), the website uses this ID to identify you throughout the process to make sure it runs smoothly | The length of the current session |
_gat_gtag_UA_ | Used by Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use this site. | When you close your browser |
hjClosedSurveyInvites | Used by Hotjar. This cookie is set once a visitor interacts with a Survey invitation modal pop-up. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not re-appear if it has already been shown. | 365 days |
_hjDonePolls | Used by Hotjar. This cookie is set once a visitor completes a Poll using the Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the same Poll does not re-appear if it has already been filled in. | 365 days |
_hjMinimizedPolls | Used by Hotjar. This cookie is set once a visitor minimizes a Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimized when the visitor navigates through your site. | 365 days |
_hjDoneTestersWidgets | Used by Hotjar. This cookie is set once a visitor submits their information in the Recruit User Testers widget. It is used to ensure that the same form does not re-appear if it has already been filled in. | 365 days |
_hjMinimizedTestersWidgets | Used by Hotjar. This cookie is set once a visitor minimizes a Recruit User Testers widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimized when the visitor navigates through your site. | 365 days |
_hjDoneSurveys | Used by Hotjar. This cookie is set once a visitor completes a survey. It is used to only load the survey content if the visitor hasn’t completed the survey yet. | 365 days |
_hjIncludedInSample | Used by Hotjar. This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate Heatmaps, Funnels, Recordings, etc. | 365 days |
_hjShownFeedbackMessage | Used by Hotjar. This cookie is set when a visitor minimizes or completes Incoming Feedback. This is done so that the Incoming Feedback will load as minimized immediately if they navigate to another page where it is set to show. | 365 days |
_twitter_sess | Used by Twitter for targeting/advertising. | The length of the current session |
K | Used by Twitter for targeting/advertising. | 7 days |
Facebook Pixel | Used by Facebook for tracking, optimisation and remarketing. | 180 days |
JSESSIONID | Used by LinkedIn for targeting/advertising. | Length of current session |
li_at | Used by LinkedIn for targeting/advertising. | 90 days |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You 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 site.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire 2 years after last visit.