Cookie usage

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files placed on your computer by most websites you visit. They are used to improve your user experience for example 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.

Controling the cookies

You can set your browsers to accept or reject all, or certain, cookies. You can also set your browser to prompt them each time a cookie is offered.

Which cookies do we use?

Cookies that are strictly necessary to provide the service

Name	Purpose	Expires
PHPSESSID	To store a simple message when a form is submitted that can be displayed on a different page. For example, if an enquiry form is completed incorrectly, a message will be stored and presented to the user to indicate the errors in the submission. When an enquiry form is submitted successfully, a message is stored and presented to the user thanking them for their enquiry. No personal information is stored in this cookie.	at the end of the session
decision-cookie	To store users decision about allowing (or not allowing) cookies which are not mandatory.	2 years

Cookies that require user consent

We use Google Analytics to anonymously collect information about the use of the website in order to improve user experience.
The following cookies are set by Google Analytics:

Name	Purpose	Expires
_ga	Used to distinguish users.	2 years
_gid	Used to distinguish users.	24 hours
_gat	Used to throttle request rate.	10 minutes