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We use the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies. These enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.
Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Marketing cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. [We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.]
We also use Google Signals through GA4 to collect information from signed-in Google users (where that user has consented to advert personalisation). You can opt out of this via our Cookie tool by clicking the cog, or via your Google profile settings.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie Name | Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CookieControl | 90 days | This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie |
| CookieConsent | Session cookie - expires when browser closed | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain |
| _ga | 2 years | Used to distinguish users |
| 1P_JAR | 90 days | Google advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes |
| AEC | 6 months | YouTube / Google. AEC. AEC cookies ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. These cookies prevent malicious sites from acting on behalf of a user without that user's knowledge. |
| IDE | 1 year | Used by Google to deliver adverts more relevant to the user and their interests |
| NID | 6 months | Used by Google to deliver adverts more relevant to the user and their interests |
| Consent | 2 years | This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie |
| 1P_JAR | 30 days | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| DSID | 2 weeks | This cookie is used to to store user preferences. |
| SAPISID | 1 year | This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. |
| __Secure-3PSID, __Secure-1PSID, __Secure-3PAPISID, __Secure-1PSIDCC, __Secure-1PAPISID | 1 year | Targeting cookie. Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. |
| SID | 1 year | This is a very common cookie name but where it is found as a session cookie it is likely to be used as for session state management |
| _gid | 1 day | Used to distinguish users |
| __cf_bm | 30 minutes | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
| _cfduid | 1 year | This cookie is set by the CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic. It does not correspond to any user id in the web application, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable information. https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/get-started/reference/cloudflare-cookies/ |
| Last_Result_Entry_Key | Session | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. |
| nextId | Session | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. |
| requests | Session | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. |
| yt.innertube::nextId | 1 year | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | 1 year | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. |
| YtIdbMeta#databases | 1 year | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. |
| yt-remote-cast-available | Session | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | Session | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | 1 year | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
| yt-remote-device-id | 1 year | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | Session | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
| yt-remote-session-app | Session | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
| yt-remote-session-name | Session | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |