We use essential cookies on our website to ensure its functionality, enhance security, and protect your experience. These cookies are strictly necessary for core features, such as safeguarding our newsletter form against spam and abuse using Google reCAPTCHA.

Some of these cookies are set by Google, but they are only activated when required for essential operations, such as verifying user interactions or ensuring security.

You can control or block cookies by adjusting your browser settings. However, please note that disabling essential cookies may impact the functionality of certain features on our site. For more information, please refer to the table below. 

Cookie

Purpose

  • APISID
  • HSID
  • NID
  • SAPISID
  • SID
  • SIDCC
  • SSID
  • __Secure-1PAPISID
  • __Secure-1PSID
  • __Secure-1PSIDCC
  • __Secure-3PAPISID
  • __Secure-3PSID
  • __Secure-3PSIDCC
  • __Secure-ENID

These cookies are set by Google because we use their reCAPTCHA service in our newsletter signup form.

These cookies are only set if you are logged into your Google account. To prevent them from being set, you must log out of your Google account or block cookies through your browser settings.

These cookies serve the following purposes:

Authentication: Ensuring you stay logged into your Google account and maintaining active user sessions.

Security: Verifying user authenticity and protecting your account from unauthorised access.

Advertising Personalisation: Some of these cookies help customise advertisements on Google platforms. You can manage ad personalisation preferences in your Google account settings.

For additional information, refer to Google’s cookie policies.

  •  _GRECAPTCHA
This cookie is critical for the functionality of Google reCAPTCHA, which is used to protect websites from spam and abuse. It ensures that website interactions are performed by humans rather than automated bots.

This cookie is set regardless of whether you are logged into your Google account.

For more details, refer to Google's reCAPTCHA documentation.

Analytics

Our analytics are cookie-free and are only used to collect some anonymous usage data for statistical purposes. The goal is to track overall trends in our website traffic, it is not to track individual visitors. All the data is in aggregate only. No personal data is collected. 

The anonymised data collected includes: referral sources, pages visited, visit duration, information from the devices (device type, operating system, country and browser) used during the visit and more.

The only cookies collected are essential, namely: session cookies and load-balancing cookies, both of which are exempt from having to gain explicit user consent. See the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) website for more information.