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Cookie Policy for Syndicated Sites

We use cookies to provide you with a good experience when you use our website and to help us to improve it.

A cookie is a small text file that we store in your browser, if you agree. You can manage your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the Cookie Policy link in the footer of the website.

We use the following cookies:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These are cookies that are required for our website to function correctly:

Cookie	Purpose	Expiry
cookieconsent_status	Remembers the preferences you set regarding use of cookies	1 year
PHPSESSID	Allows us to remember your login state	End of browser session

Optional Cookies

Analytics (Google Analytics)

These cookies are used to help collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data.

By default, we tell Google not to store any cookies for Google Analytics until you accept them. This is achieved by using Google Consent Mode.

Cookie	Purpose	Expiry
_ga	Used to distinguish users	2 years
_ga_<container-id>	Used to persist session state	2 years
_gid	Used to distinguish users	24 hours
_gat	Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>.	1 minute
AMP_TOKEN	Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service.	30 seconds to 1 year
_gac_<property-id>	Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out.	90 days
_utma	Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.	2 years from set/update
_utmt	Used to throttle request rate.	10 minutes
_utmb	Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.	30 mins from set/update
_utmc	Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit.	End of browser session
_utmz	Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.	6 months from set/update
_utmv	Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.	2 years from set/update

Google’s policy and cookie documents can be accessed below.

You can find out more information in the Google Privacy Policy. You can opt out of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics Opt-out Page.

Further Information

To find out more about cookies visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org

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 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 strictly necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

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Version 001 dated 21 April 2021