COOKIES AND HOW THEY BENEFIT YOU

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best online experience we can.

Cookies are small text files of letters and numbers which are stored on your browser when you browse websites provided that you have given your consent. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

 

Our cookies help us:

  • Make our website work as you'd expect
  • Improve the speed and security of our website
  • Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
  • Continuously improve our website
  • Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)

 

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personal data (without your express permission)
  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • Pass personal data to third parties
  • Pay sales commissions

 

We use the following cookies:

Necessary cookies

These are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not identify you personally.

Analytical or performance cookies.

These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies

These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). They also help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback and other third party features.

Targeting or “Advertisement” cookies

These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

 

We are also in the process of analysing certain cookies which have not yet been classified into a category. We will update this Cookie Policy on an ongoing basis as these cookies are classified.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Name

Purpose 

More information

Necessary cookies

cookieyes-consent

CookieYes sets this cookie for 1 year to remember users’ consent preferences so that their preferences are respected on their subsequent visits to this site. It does not collect or store any personal data of the site visitors.

 

Functionality cookies

UserMatchHistory

LinkedIn.com sets this cookie for 1 month for the purpose of syncing LinkedIn Ads ID.

Linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table

Lang

Lang is a session cookie set by LinkedIn.com to remember a user’s language setting.

Bcookie

LinkedIn.com sets this cookie for 1 year from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognise browser ID.

lidc

LinkedIn.com sets this cookie for 1 day to facilitate data centre selection.

bscookie

LinkedIn.com sets this cookie for 1 year to store performed actions on its website.

_cf_bm

Set by Cloudflare for 30 minutes to support Cloudflare Bot Management and help us to prevent malicious bot activity on our site

 

Analytical cookies

_clsk

Set for 1 day by Microsoft Clarity to store information about how users use a website and help in creating an analytics report of how the website is performing

Privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement

_ga

Set by Google Analytics for 2 years to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors

See Google.com’s privacy policy

_gid

Set by Google Analytics for 1 day to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report on the website’s performance. Some of the data collected includes the number of visitors, their source and the pages they visit anonymously.

Performance cookies

_gat

Set by Google Universal Analytics for 1 minute to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites.

See Google.com’s privacy policy

SRM_B

Set for 1 year and 24 days by Microsoft Advertising as a unique ID for visitors.

Privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement

Advertisement cookies

MUID

Set for 1 year and 24 days by Bing to recognise unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics and other operations.

Privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement

ANONCHK

Set for 10 minutes by Bing to store a user’s session ID and verify the clicks from ads on the Bing search engine. The cookie also helps reporting and personalisation of ads.

Other cookies (as yet unclassified)

CLID

Set for 1 year

 

cookie-agreed-version

Set for 3 months and 8 days

 

AnalyticsSyncHistory

Set for 1 month

 

_clck

Set for 1 year

 

li_gc

Set for 5 months and 27 days

 

_dd_s

Set for 15 minutes

 

SM

Session cookie

 

dd_cookie_test_b09aced2-2e3b-443d-8cba-42983693cf35

Session cookie

 

 

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

  • Google 
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube

Managing your cookie preferences, or turning cookies off

To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may manage the use of these types of cookies here. You may also set your preferences for all non-essential cookie types.

You can also configure your browser to block all cookies (Learn how here).

However, if you choose to reject all non-essential cookies, or use your browser settings to block all cookies, you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Except for necessary cookies, all cookies will expire after 2 years.

It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so called "spyware". Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.