4.1 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.

4.2 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.

4.3 This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help this website analyse how users use 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.

 

Name of cookie	Expiry	Data Stored	Purpose
PHPSESSID	End of session	Session ID	Used for tracking the existence of your session on our website.
WAMUSER	End of session	Encrypted session ID	Created after login.  Used to validate your authenticated session throughout our secure online services.
ASP.NET_SessionId	End of session	Encrypted session state data	Created whenever you access one of our online applications.  Used to store state information for the application as it is used.

 

Third party cookies

Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyse how people use our site. 

Name of cookie	Expiry	Data Stored	Purpose
__utma	2 years from set / update	Google Analytics Unique ID number	Tracking data for Google Analytics.  Helps work out unique visitor numbers.
__utmb	30 minutes from set / update	Google Analytics Unique ID number	Tracking data for Google Analytics.  Helps work out visitor session length.
__utmbc	End of session	Google Analytics Unique ID number	Tracking data for Google Analytics.  Helps work out visitor session length and whether a session has expired.
__utmz	6 months from set / update	Google Analytics Unique ID tracking numbers	Tracking data for Google Analytics.  Used to work out referrals from other domains.

 

Brightcove
If you watch a video on our website, this is streamed to you from a video streaming platform hosted at Brightcove.

The following cookies are set by Brightcove when you watch one of these videos. Their purpose is to help us measure volumes of usage so we know how popular our videos are. 

Name of cookie	Expiry	Data Stored	Purpose
_tmcm	1 month	Brightcove unique ID number	Tracking data for Brightcove Analytics.  Helps work out unique visitor numbers and session lengths.
_ds	1 month	Brightcove unique ID number	Tracking data for Brightcove Analytics.  Helps work out unique visitor numbers and session lengths.
_tmid	1 month	Brightcove unique ID number	Tracking data for Brightcove Analytics.  Helps work out unique visitor numbers and session lengths.