When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task
recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested
measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast
If you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our website, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings.
(please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of our website):
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Cookie |
Expiry period |
Reason for use of cookie |
Description |
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userlogin |
1 year |
Your visit |
Remembers your current login details. |
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PHPSESSID |
1 year |
Your visit |
This is your session id we use to navigate our website. |
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__atuvc |
1 year |
Your visit |
This is used by the Addthis website shareing that can be found at the bottom of our right menu (used for RSS Feeds) |