COOKIE POLICY

This policy was last updated on 12/06/2025.

When you visit or interact with our sites, we or our authorised service providers may use cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies for storing information to help provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience and for advertising purposes.

This page is designed to help you understand more about these technologies and our use of them on our sites. Below is a summary of a few key things you should know about our use of such technologies.

What are cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies?

Like most sites, we use technologies that are essentially small data files placed on your computer, tablet, mobile phone, or other devices (referred to collectively as a “device”) that allow us to record certain pieces of information whenever you visit or interact with our sites, services, applications, messaging, and tools.

The specific names and types of the cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies we use may change from time to time. In order to help you better understand this Policy and our use of such technologies we have provided the following limited terminology and definitions:

Cookies
Small text files (typically made up of letters and numbers) placed in the memory of your browser or device when you visit a website or view a message. Cookies allow a website to recognise a particular device or browser.

There are several types of cookies:
Session cookies expire at the end of your browser session and allow us to link your actions during that browser session.

Persistent cookies are stored on your device in between browser sessions, allowing us to remember your preferences or actions across multiple sites.

First-party cookies are set by the site you are visiting.

Third-party cookies are set by a third-party site separate from the site you are visiting.

Cookies can be disabled or removed by tools that are available in most commercial browsers. The preferences for each browser you use will need to be set separately and different browsers offer different functionality and options.

Web beacons
Small graphic images (also known as “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs”) that may be included on our sites, services, applications, messaging, and tools, that typically work in conjunction with cookies to identify our users and user behaviour.

Other Similar technologies
Technologies that store information in your browser or device utilising local shared objects or local storage, such as flash cookies, HTML 5 cookies, and other web application software methods. These technologies can operate across all your browsers, and in some instances may not be fully managed by your browser and may require management directly through your installed applications or device. We do not use these technologies for storing information to target advertising to you on or off our sites.

We may use the terms “cookies” or “similar technologies” interchangeably in our policies to refer to all technologies that we may use to store data in your browser or device or that collect information or help us identify you in the manner described above.

Cookies used on this website
This website uses performance cookies. For more information on the performance cookies used on this website, please refer below.

Performance Cookies
These cookies allow us to count visits and 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. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

Please refer to the table below for a list of performance cookies used on this website. Essential cookies enable basic functions and are necessary for the proper function of the website.

Cookie nameCookie IDDescriptionDuration
Cookie Preferenceswpconsent_preferencesThis cookie is used to store the user’s cookie consent preferences.
30 days
comment_authorcomment_authorUsed to track the user across multiple sessions.Session
comment_author_emailcomment_author_emailUsed to track the user across multiple sessions.Session
comment_author_urlcomment_author_url9sed to track the user across multiple sessions.Session

Google Analytics

Cookie nameCookie IDDescriptionDuration
_gac__gac_Contains information related to marketing campaigns of the user. These are shared with Google AdWords / Google Ads when the Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts are linked together.
90 days
__utma__utmaID used to identify users and sessions
2 years after last activity
__utmt__utmtUsed to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests10 minutes
__utmb__utmbUsed to distinguish new sessions and visits. This cookie is set when the GA.js javascript library is loaded and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to the Google Analytics server.30 minutes after last activity
__utmc__utmcUsed only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics and not with GA.js. Was used to distinguish between new sessions and visits at the end of a session. Duration: end of session (browser)
__utmz__utmzContains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed user to the website. The cookie is set when the GA.js javascript is loaded and updated when data is sent to the Google Anaytics server. Duration: 6 months after last activity
__utmv__utmvContains custom information set by the web developer via the _setCustomVar method in Google Analytics. This cookie is updated every time new data is sent to the Google Analytics server. Duration: 2 years after last activity
__utmx__utmxUsed to determine whether a user is included in an A / B or Multivariate test.18 months
_ga_gaID used to identify users2 years
_gali_galiUsed by Google Analytics to determine which links on a page are being clicked
30 seconds
_ga__ga_ID used to identify users2 years
_gid_gidID used to identify users for 24 hours after last activity24 hours
_gat_gatUsed to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager
1 minute

Marketing

Marketing cookies are used to follow visitors to websites. The intention is to show ads that are relevant and engaging to the individual user.

About this policy

We may amend the Cookie policy from time to time, in whole or in part, at our discretion. The latest version of this document will always be available at our website and will take effect on the date that it is updated.

Updating your preference

You can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the above button. This will let you revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences or withdraw your consent right away.

In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.