Cookies
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files which are stored on your computer or device when you visit a website. Cookies enable the website to remember information about you and your preferences.
How do we use them?
We use cookies for our content management system that is used to manage our website internally. These cookies are used to monitor the date of your last visit to our website and make sure you are shown the most up to date version of content. They also store form redirects and data useful to the system administrators who maintain our website. We also use cookies to collect anonymous information that helps us understand visitors’ browsing habits on our website and to produce statistical reports on our website activity. This information helps us to improve our services.
Session Cookies
Session cookies are temporary cookies which are erased from your device when you exit your web browser. We use these to help keep our services secure.
Persistent Cookies
These cookies remain on your device until they expire or are manually removed. These are used for a number of purposes including information you have previously provided to remember your preferences and collect statistical information. More information on the cookies we use and the purpose of the cookie can be found in the table below.
Necessary Cookies
Name | Purpose |
| CRAFT_CSRF_TOKEN | Facilitates protection against cross-site request forgeries. |
| CraftSessionId | Craft relies on PHP sessions to maintain sessions across web requests. |
Analytics Cookies
Name | Purpose |
AMP_TOKEN | Contains a token code that is used to read out a Client ID from the AMP Client ID Service. |
| FPAU | Assigns a specific ID to the visitor. |
| FPID | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website |
| FPLC | This FPLC cookie is the cross-domain linker cookie hashed from the FPID cookie |
| __utma | ID used to identify users and sessions. |
| __utmb | Used to distinguish new sessions and visits. |
| __utmc | Used only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics |
| __utmt | Used to monitor number of server requests |
| __utmv | Contains custom information (such as events) |
| __utmx | Used to determine whether a user is included in an A / B or Multivariate test. |
| __utmxx | Used to determine whether a user is included in an A / B or Multivariate test. |
| __utmz | Contains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed user to the website. |
| _dc_gtm_ | Used to monitor number of server requests |
| _ga | ID used to identify users |
| _ga_* | Used to identify and track an individual user session. |
| _gac_ | Contains information related to marketing campaigns of the user. |
| _gat | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager |
| _gat_* | Used to set and get tracking data |
| _gid | ID used to identify users for 24 hours |
Marketing Cookies
| DEVICE_INFO | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner |
| GPS | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. |
| LOGIN_INFO | This cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. |
| PREF | This cookie stores your preferences for YouTube videos |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. Also used for marketing |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Youtube visitor privacy metadata cookie |
| YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
How to control Cookies
You can manage restrictions on cookies via your web browser. The ‘Help’ functionality in your web browser should provide information on how to change these preferences. Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org where you can find comprehensive information on cookies and how to manage them.
You can opt out of Google analytics tracking functionality by visiting tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Please note that if you decide to block all cookies, you will be unable to use some of our site content.
This page was last updated in August 2025.