A cookie is a small piece of data stored in your browser.
Web servers usually have no memory from one request to the next, so cookies help web servers to remember important information.
This is very useful for some features but they can also be abused and used to track people without their consent.
We use cookies to provide some functionality and to help us understand how people use our website.
This page explains what types of cookies we use and what we use them for.
If you'd like to specify how our website should treat you in regards to cookies please set your preferences using the options below.
Essential cookies
These are cookies that are necessary for the technical operation of our site.
They can't be disabled without harming the site's functionality or security.
You may however adjust your browser settings to deny these cookies.
CSRF token
We record an encrypted CSRF token as a cookie in order to protect visitors' security.
This is a unique token that acts as a secret password to prevent malicious websites
from being able to trick users into submitting a form they don't intend to.
This cookie protects our users from cross-site request forgery attacks.
Session cookie
In order to remember information from one request to the next, we use a session cookie.
We store a single cookie with a session identifier that we can use to know things such as if a user is logged in or not.
Held in the same cookie is information about a user's preferences, or information such as
that a visitor's previous form request was successful so that we should display a success message on the next page.
Analytics cookies
To help us understand how people use our website we would like to record some anonymous analytics
data. This helps us to understand things such as how visitors found our website, how long visitors usually
spend on each page, which page's links get clicked, and what our visitor demographics are.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to help us analyse our web traffic.
Google Analytics uses cookies to collect data about visits to our web pages.
If you'd prefer not to share this data with us, please set your preference here.
To read more about your privacy on our website, please see our privacy policy.