Generally these cookies will be essential first-party session cookies, and if persistent or third party, there should be a good justification for this. Not all first-party session cookies will fall into the ‘strictly necessary’ category for the purposes of the legislation. Strictly necessary cookies will generally be used to store a unique identifier to manage and identify the user as unique to other users currently viewing the website, in order to provide a consistent and accurate service to the user.

This Site uses strictly necessary cookies to:

• Remember previous actions (e.g. user entered text) when navigating back to a page in the same session
• Load balancing session cookies for the duration of a session. Third-party social plug-in content sharing cookies (for members of a social network who have already logged in) which do not track users.

Performance

Performance cookies allow us to update this Site to cater for Site user preferences and improve performance. They collect information about how this Site is used (for example, which pages users visit most often and where error messages are delivered). These cookies don't collect information that identifies individuals. All information is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

This Site uses performance cookies to:

• Provide statistics on how this Site is used (including selections that you have made and services that you have viewed, during your use of this Site)
• Gather non-user specific technical data regarding usage of this Site and provide statistics on how our Site is used
• Help us improve this Site by measuring any errors that occur
• Test different designs of our Site

We use Google Analytics for these purposes (please see below for further information).

Functional

Functional cookies allow this Site to remember choices you make, and any customisations you make to Site pages during your visit. They are necessary to provide features and services specific to individual users.

This Site uses functional cookies to:

• Remember that you have been provided with our cookie information and consent notification
• Fulfil a request by a user, such as using social media to share content on this Site
• Remember the selected country/location and language.

Targeting cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to user interests. These cookies are usually third-party cookies. 

This Site uses targeting cookies:

• To collect browsing habits in order to target relevant adverts to the users on other websites. This is called remarketing
• In conjunction with a service implemented by the Site to increase functionality, such as adding a site to the user’s social network and providing maps.
   

Persistent cookies remain on a device for the period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.

Session

Session cookies contain information that is stored in a temporary memory location and then subsequently deleted after the session is completed or the web browser is closed. This cookie stores information that the user has inputted and tracks the movements of the user within the website. A session cookie is also known as transient cookie.