What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your device. Cookies are widely used throughout the Internet in order to make sites or other online services work or to be better or more efficient. They can do this because sites and other online services can read and write to the cookies stored on your device, enabling them to recognise you and remember important information that will make your use of them more convenience, for example, by remembering your preferences, username, or showing you pages that you seemed to have a particular interest in. If you consent to us storing cookies on your computer or other electronic device then you agree that we can store and access cookies as described in this policy.
Why do we use cookies?
Analytics and research
We use cookies to better understand how people use our website so that we can improve them.
Authentication
We use cookies to verify your account and determine when you’re logged in so we can make it easier for you to access the Facebook Products and show you the appropriate experience and features.
Advertising, recommendations, insights and measurement
We use cookies to help us show ads and to make recommendations for other people who may be interested in us. This also allows us to measure the success of our ad campaigns.
Performance
We use cookies to provide you with the best experience possible.
How can you control Cookies?
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site. You may also delete any cookies stored on your computer at any time. You can find out more about changing cookie settings on your computer by visiting http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.
YouTube Cookies | PREF* VSC* VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE* remote_sid* | We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page. PREF - * Expires after eight months VSC - * expires at the end of your session VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE - *expires after eight months remote_sid - * expires at the end of your session |
Universal Analytics (Google) | _ga _gali _gat _gid | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data |
Paul Scadding | _ga PHPSESSID pmpro_visit _gid | We use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our Services. If you’re signed into our member area, these technologies help us show you the right information and personalise your experience in line with your settings. For example, cookies enable us to identify you and verify your account. |
Pixel - Facebook | mt_misc uuid mt_mop uuidc | Cookies and similar technologies help us show relevant advertising to you more effectively, off our Services and to measure the performance of such ads, through those services. We use these technologies to learn whether content has been shown to you or whether someone who was presented with an ad later came back and took an action (e.g., clicked through to our website) on another site. |
Third Parties
Please note that third parties (including, for example, web traffic analysis services such as Google Analytics) may also use cookies, over which we have no control.