Privacy Preference Centre
When you visit any website, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, in the form of cookies or other similar technologies. This information might be about you, your preferences, or your device, and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to. The information does not usually directly identify you, but it can give you a more personalized web experience. You can choose not to allow some types of cookies and other similar technologies. Click on the different category headings to find out more and change your settings; however, blocking some of these technologies may impact your site experience and the services we are able to offer.
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Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function, or are used for security and fraud prevention, and cannot be switched off. They are usually only set in response to your actions that amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, filling in forms or browsing our site. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not work.
These are the cookies that are added which are considered strictly necessary:
lang
- Maintains the language selection on the site.
- This is a session cookie, which means it’s set when you first visit the site and then removed when you close your browser.
XSRF-TOKEN
This cookie is used for fraud and security purposes.
laravel_session
- This cookie is used to maintain your session on the site (i.e., doing things like keeping you logged in).
- This cookie automatically expires after 6 hours.
- These include: allow_cookies, doc_version, cookie_setting_prompt
- These cookies are essential, meaning you can’t opt out of it.
- These cookies are used for the cookie policy on the site to track opt in/outs, and make sure a user has seen the prompt and seen the latest version of the policy.
- These cookies all automatically expire after 1 year.
Performance Cookies
These cookies allow us to count site visits and web-traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site, will not be able to monitor its performance, and may not be able to assist you with specific issues you may encounter.
Google Analytics 4
We use Google Analytics 4 to gather statistics on how visitors use our site. We use this information to find ways of improving your user experience. The table below outlines the cookies that are added.
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Expires After |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Provides a general view of the number of page visits, unique visitors and sessions as well as campaign data by randomly generating an ID. | 2 years |
| _gid | Used by Google Analytics to store the number of page visits. | 24 hours |
| _gat | Restricts the number of requests to limit data collection on sites with heavy traffic. | 1 minute |
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