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Cookies Policy

Cookies are text files that are placed on to your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently and to collect standard information and track how you use websites for examples the pages you visit.

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How We Use Cookies

We use cookies to:

 Make our website work, for example by keeping it secure

 Measure how you use our website, such as which links you click on (Google Analytics - 3rd party)

 Remember which pop-ups you've seen

 Allow you to use User Way accessibility options (third party)

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Cookies used on this website

Cookie Purpose Type Expires
_ga These help us count how many people visit the website by tracking if you've visited before 3rd Party 2 years
_gat Used by Google Analytics. Sets a unique ID for your session to help tell us how you use our website 3rd Party 1 minute
_gid Used by Google Analytics. Used by Google Analytics. Helps stop Google Analytics web servers crashing when collecting information on how you use our website 3rd Party 24 hours
PHPSESSID This cookie stores the identifier for your current session in PHP Necessary at end of session

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