Your cookie preferences
Some of our cookies are essential, while others help us to improve your experience by providing insights into how this website is being used.
The following cookies are optional and you can opt-in or out of them at any time.
Website monitoring (More info):
We sometimes place small data files on your computer. These are known as cookies.
Most websites do this.
They improve things by:
- remembering settings, so you don't have to keep re-entering them whenever you visit
a new page
- remembering information you've given so you don't need to keep
entering it
- measuring how you use the website so we can make sure it meets your needs
Our cookies aren't used to identify you personally. They're just here to make the
site work better for you.
How we use cookies
We use cookies in several places – we've listed each of them below with more details
about why we use them and how long they last.
Site requirements
The following cookies are necessary for our site to operate and do not contain personal data.
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ASP.NET_SessionId
Session based
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This is a general purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft .NET based technologies. This is a necessary cookie used to maintain anonymised user sessions by web servers for basic site functionality.
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CookieConsent
365 days
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This is a cookie used to remember that you have acknowledged our cookie statement (and prevent showing you our cookie banner on every page).
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Website monitoring (SiteImprove)
We use a product called SiteImprove to collect information about how people use this site. We
do this to make sure it's meeting our users' needs and to understand how we could
do it better.
SiteImprove stores information about what pages are visited, how long for and what was clicked on. We do not collect or store
personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot
be used to identify who you are. We do not allow SiteImprove to use or share our analytics
data with anyone.
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nmstat
Persistent
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This cookie is used to help record visitors' use of the website.
It is used to collect statistics about site usage such as when the visitor last visited the site.
This information is then used to improve the user experience on the website. This Siteimprove Analytics cookie contains a randomly generated ID used to recognize the browser when a visitor reads a page.
The cookie contains no personal information and is used only for web analytics.
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siteimproveses
Session based
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This cookie is used purely to track the sequence of pages a visitor looks at during a visit to the site.
This information is used to test user journeys that enable visitors to find relevant information more quickly.
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cfduid
Persistent
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This cookie is set by SiteImprove for a CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic.
It does not correspond to any user, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable information.
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Embedded content and social media cookies
Our site has a number of pages with embedded videos or other content that utilise cookies from a third party to enable this.