Cookies are used in two ways on this website:
1. Providing you with functionality:
When you log-in or browse the site, it is necessary to store certain information in order for your browsing experience to run smoothly. This information is stored on our server, but a reference to this information is stored in a temporary cookie by your browser.
2. Anonymous visitor statistics:
We use Google's Analytics service to track visitors to our website. Google use several cookies for this purpose. No personal information about you is stored, apart from the IP address that you are using.
Please read this article on how Google uses cookies for Google Analytics.
SessionID | Stores a temporary unique identifier for your session no other information is stored. | Expires on exit of browser |
Guest_ID | Stores a temporary cookie for twitter which identidies who is logged onto their Twitter account | Expires in 9 months |
eucookie | When prompted with the banner stating that we store cookies, this cookie is set so that you do not see this banner on every page, and contains no information. | session |
_utma | Used by Google Analytics to capture and determine unique visitors and the frequency of views. __utma is written to the browser on your first visit to a site (from the browser being used). | Expires in 2 years |
_utmb | Used by Google Analytics to establish and continue your session on the site. Each time you visit a page it is updated to expire in 30 minutes. It expires if you spend more than 30 minutes on a single page. | Expires in 30 minutes |
_utmc | Previously used by Google Analytics javascript to define a session status. | Expires in 6 months |
_utmz | Used by Google Analytics to store the type of referral used to reach the site; e.g. direct, link, web search, etc. | Expires on exit of browser |