Cookies We Use
Our website uses cookies to enhance your experience and provide essential functionality. Below is a list of the cookies we use, their purposes, and their duration.
Essential
cf_clearance (Cloudflare)
- Purpose: This cookie is used by Cloudflare to identify and authenticate users who have passed a security challenge. It helps to ensure that subsequent requests from a user are not challenged again.
- Duration: This cookie is a session cookie that expires after 30 minutes of inactivity.
- Location: United States
- Legal Basis: Legitimate interest (necessary for the security and functionality of the website).
wpEmojiSettingsSupports
- Purpose: This cookie is related to the functionality of emojis on the WordPress platform. However, no specific purpose or additional data collection details were found for this cookie.
- Duration: Session (expires when the browser is closed)
- Location: United States
- Legal Basis: Legitimate interest (necessary for website functionality).
Analytics and Customisation
_ga (Google Analytics)
- Purpose: This cookie is used by Google Analytics to distinguish users by assigning a unique ID. It collects information about how visitors use the site, such as pages visited and time spent on each page.
- Duration: 2 years
- Location: United States
- Legal Basis: Consent (analytics cookies require user consent under GDPR and UK GDPR).
ga# (Google Analytics)
- Purpose: This cookie is used to distinguish individual users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It helps in calculating the number of visitors, sessions, and data related to site usage.
- Duration: 2 years
- Location: United States
- Legal Basis: Consent (analytics cookies require user consent under GDPR and UK GDPR).
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
When you first visit our website, you will be presented with a cookie consent banner. You can choose to:
- Accept All Cookies: This will allow all cookies, including those for analytics.
- Reject Non-Essential Cookies: This will allow only necessary cookies that are required for the operation of the website, such as cf_clearance.
- Customize Preferences: You can select which types of cookies you want to allow.
You can also manage your cookie preferences at any time through your browser settings:
- Google Chrome: Manage Cookies in Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox: Manage Cookies in Firefox
- Safari: Manage Cookies in Safari
Data Transfers Outside the EEA
Some of the cookies we use may involve the transfer of data to the United States. We ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place, such as Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), to protect your data in accordance with GDPR and UK GDPR requirements.
