Some of our web pages use cookies. A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are.
When you access our website or login to our secure area we send you an encrypted session cookie. A session cookie is a temporary cookie that only remains in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site. This cookie is used to validate your access to different parts of the site.
Disabling/ enabling cookies
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you will not be able to login to the website if cookies are disabled. You can also manually remove cookies from your system. For more information on disabling and enabling cookies you should search for or lookup 'cookies' in your operating system documentation.
Transparency - our use of cookies
Cookies set by us
When you access our website or login to our secure area we send you an encrypted session cookie. A session cookie is a temporary cookie that only remains in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site. This cookie is used to validate your access to different parts of the site.
| Cookie name | Expiry | What data is stored | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| .AspNetCore.Antiforgery.* | Session | A security token | Helps protect the website against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and ensures forms are submitted securely |
| .AspNetCore.Mvc.CookieTempDataProvider | Session | Temporary session state data | Preserves temporary data between page requests while a user navigates the site |
| __cf_bm | 180 days | Information used to distinguish humans from bots | Used by Cloudflare to protect the site from malicious traffic and automated abuse |
| maps/gen_204 | Session | Anonymous interaction data | Supports embedded Google Maps functionality and helps optimise map performance |
| _ga | 2 years | A randomly generated identifier | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users and produce anonymised usage statistics |
| _clck | 1 year | Anonymised interaction data (e.g. clicks and navigation paths) | Used by Microsoft Clarity to understand how visitors interact with pages and improve site usability |
| requests / nextId / yt-remote-* | Session | Interaction data relating to video playback | Required for embedded YouTube video functionality and to track user interaction with video content |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | 180 days | Feature rollout configuration token | Used by YouTube to manage the delivery and testing of embedded video features |
| TESTCOOKIESENABLED | Session | Indicator of whether cookies are enabled | Used by YouTube to check whether the user’s browser supports cookies |
Important Information about how cookies are listed
Some cookies may appear more than once in technical scans because they are set for different domains, subdomains, or configurations.
Where cookies have the same purpose, expiry type, and data use, they are grouped together in this table to make the information clearer and easier to understand.
This website does not use cookies to identify individuals, and any data collected is:
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Aggregated
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Anonymised
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Used only to maintain security, ensure functionality, and improve the website