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We use the following cookies:
Essential cookies
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. These essential cookies are always enabled because our website won’t work properly without them. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to play videos, listen to podcasts, and search on our website. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Analytics 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.
Personalisation Cookies
These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Advertising 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 so that they can serve you with relevant advertising on their websites.
Social Media Cookies
These cookies allow you to share what you’ve been doing on the website on social media such as Facebook and Twitter. These cookies are not within our control. Please refer to the respective privacy policies for how their cookies work.
Use of Web Beacons
Some of our Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons that allow us to count users who have visited these pages. Web beacons collect only limited information which including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides. We may also carry web beacons placed by third party advertisers. These beacons do not carry any personally identifiable information and are only used to track the effectiveness of a particular campaign.
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 | Description | Category | Duration |
| AWSALBTG | AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: The ASWALBTG is a load balancer-generated cookie for Weighted Target Groups. It is used to honour sticky sessions and enable target group stickiness. | Strictly necessary | 7 Days |
| AWSALBGTCORS | AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: This load-balancing cookie is managed by AWS, and is for Weighted Target Groups associated with cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) requests. | Strictly necessary | 7 Days |
| DSID | The Google ‘DSID’ cookie is used to identify a signed-in user on non-Google sites so that the user’s ads personalization setting is respected accordingly. | Optional | 2 Weeks |
| IDE | The Google ‘IDE’ cookie is used to show google ads on non-google sites. | Optional | 13 Months |
| NID | The Google ‘NID’ cookie is used to show Google ads in Google services for signed-out users. | Optional | 6 Months |
| OTZ | This Google cookie is used by Google analytics to track website traffic information | Optional | 1 Month |
| AEC | The Google ‘AEC’ cookie is used to detect spam, fraud, and abuse to help ensure advertisers are not incorrectly charged for fraudulent or otherwise invalid impressions or interactions with ads. | Optional | 6 Months |
| SOCS | The Google ‘Socs’ cookie is used to store a user’s state regarding their cookies choices. | Optional | 13 Months |
| OGPC | This Google cookie enables the functionality of Google Maps. | Optional | 30 Days |
| Receive-cookie-deprecation | This Google cookie is part of a Google Chrome experiment to identify if a user's browser is in specific test groups within Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox initiative. | Optional | 6 Months |
| _ga_# | This Google cookie is used to track and store page views. | Optional | 13 Months |
| _ga | This Google cookie is the main cookie used by analytics, and enables the service to distinguish one visitor from another. | Optional | 24 Months |
| _gcl_au | This Google cookie is used to store and track conversions to help with advertising campaigns. | Optional | 90 Days |
| DV | This Google cookie is used for targeted advertising. | Optional | 6 Hours |
| EUULE | This Google cookie is associated with Google Maps and is used to store encrypted location information for displaying maps. | Optional | 6 Hours |
| UULE | This Google cookie sends precise location information from your browser to Google’s servers so that Google can show you results that are relevant to your location. | Optional | 6 Hours |
| _gat | This Google Analytics cookie is used by ShareThis to distinguish users. | Optional | 1 Day |
| _gid | This Google Analytics cookie is used by ShareThis to distinguish users. | Optional | 1 Day |
| TDCPM | This The Trade Desk cookie is used to register a unique ID that identifies a returning user's device for targeted ads. | Optional | 12 Months |
| TDID | This The Trade Desk cookie is an ID used to recognize web-browser profiles over time across sites. | Optional | 12 Months |
| _stid | This ShareThis cookie generates an ID to store and track user activity. | Optional | 12 Months |
| _stidv | This ShareThis cookie stores the version of the ShareThis cookie ID. | Optional | 12 Months |
| Fpestid | This ShareThis cookie is an ID set in the domain of the website operator. | Optional | 13 Months |
| Panoramaid_expiry | This ShareThis cookie registers data on visitors from multiple visits and on multiple websites. This information is used to measure the efficiency of advertisement on websites. | Optional | 1 Day |
| Pubconsent-v2 | This ShareThis cookie is set to indicate user has made a declaration about GDPR data collection for IAB TCF v1 format. | Optional | 13 Months |
| pxcelBcnLcy | This ShareThis cookie is a tag tanagement System cookie to track latency on reporting beacon. | Optional | Session duration |
| pxcelPage_default_#_# | This ShareThis cookie is a tag tanagement System cookie to track status of pixel rotation loading. ShareThis uses a different cookie for different groups of sites within the ShareThis network. | Optional | 1 Year |
| _zitok | This cookie is added by ShareThis and the ZoomInfo service which matches anonymous website visitors with businesses allowing for more targeted engagement with visitors. The cookie includes an ID to distinguish unique visitors. | Optional | 12 Months |
| mp_#_mixpanel | This MixPanel cookie is added by ShareThis and is used to track user's activity. | Optional | 12 Months |
| panoramaId_expiry_exp | This cookie embedded by ShareThis contains the expiry-date for the cookie with corresponding name. | Optional | Persistant |
| _cc_aud | This crwdcntrl cookie is embedded by ShareThis and is used for targeting and marketing purposes. | Optional | 6 Months |
| _cc_cc | This crwdcntrl cookie is embedded by ShareThis and is used for targeting and marketing purposes. | Optional | 6 Months |
| _cc_dc | This crwdcntrl cookie is embedded by ShareThis and is used for targeting and marketing purposes. | Optional | 6 Months |
| _cc_domain | This crwdcntrl cookie is embedded by ShareThis and is used for targeting and marketing purposes. | Optional | 6 Months |
| _cc_id | This crwdcntrl cookie is embedded by ShareThis and is used for targeting and marketing purposes. | Optional | 6 Months |
| _cc_id_update_ts | This crwdcntrl cookie is embedded by ShareThis and is used for targeting and marketing purposes. | Optional | Persistant |
| A3 | This Yahoo cookie is embedded by ShareThis and is used for content and advertising personalisation. | Optional | 13 Months |
| IDSYNC | This Yahoo cookie is embedded by ShareThis and is used for content and advertising personalisation. | Optional | 13 Months |
| SEUNCY | This Semasio cookie is embedded by ShareThis and enables targeted advertising. | Optional | 12 Months |
| _ljtrtb_# | This Lijit cookie is embedded by ShareThis and is used for targeting and advertising. | Optional | 12 Months |
| _ssuma | This SiteScout cookie is embedded by ShareThis and registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user's device. The ID is used for targeted ads. | Optional | 1 Month |
| Ab | This Neustar cookie is embedded by ShareThis and is used for advertising purposes. | Optional | 12 Months |
| Anj | This AppNexus cookie is embedded by ShareThis and is used for synchronizing IDs with partners. | Optional | 90 Days |
| Bkdc | This BlueKai cookie is embedded by ShareThis to register anonymized user as well as aggregate anonymous activities to enable marketers to provide more targeted online advertising. | Optional | 6 Months |
| Bku | This BlueKai cookie is embedded by ShareThis to register anonymized user as well as aggregate anonymous activities to enable marketers to provide more targeted online advertising. | Optional | 6 Months |
| Browser_id | This rqtrk.eu cookie is embedded by ShareThis and used to deliver tailored advertising. The cookie may collect personal and non-personal data about your online activities. | Optional | 12 Months |
| Cookie | This onaudience.com cookie is embedded by ShareThis and is used for targeting and advertising purposes. | Optional | 12 Months |
| Cs | This Fifty cookie is embedded by ShareThis and tracks user behaviour to aid advertisement. | Optional | 12 Months |
| Demdex | This Adobe Audience Manager cookie is embedded by ShareThis and assigns a unique ID to a site visitor. The demdex cookie helps Audience Manger perform basic functions, such as visitor identification, ID synchronization, segmentation, modeling, reporting, and so on. | Optional | 180 Days |
| Done_redirects | This onaudience.com cookie is embedded by ShareThis and is used for targeting and advertising purposes. | Optional | 1 Day |
| Fifid | This Fifty cookie is embedded by ShareThis and tracks user behaviour to aid advertisement. | Optional | 1 Year |
| Fpst | This Fifty cookie is embedded by ShareThis and tracks user behaviour to aid advertisement. | Optional | 1 Year |
| _hjSessionUser_# | This HotJar cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. | Optional | 1 Year |
| _hjSession_# | This HotJar cookie ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session. | Optional | Session duration |
| _sfid_# | This SalesForce cookie supports identification of new and returning customers. | Optional | 13 Months |
| _evga_# | This Salesforce cookie is used to present users with customized content based on their user behavior. | Optional | 13 Months |
| _fbp | This Facebook cookie tracks user behaviour and is used to deliver advertising. | Optional | 3 Months |
| usida | This Facebook cookie collects information about your browser, as well as unique identifiers to tailor advertising. | Optional | Session duration |
| lastExternalReferrer | This Meta platforms cookie detects how the user reached the website by registering their last URL-address. | Optional | Persistant |
| lastExternalReferrerTime | This Meta platforms cookie detects how the user reached the website by registering their last URL-address. | Optional | Persistant |
| didomi_token | This Didomi cookie contains consent information for custom purposes and vendors, as well as Didomi-specific information. It determines which cookies the user has accepted. | Required | 12 Months |
| euconsent-v2 | This Didomi cookie contains the IAB TCF consent string and consent information for all the standard IAB vendors and purposes. It determines which cookies the user has accepted. | Required | 12 Months |
| XANDR_PANID | This AppNexus cookie registers data on the visitor. The information is used to optimize advertisement relevance. | Optional | 90 Days |
| Dpm | This Adobe Audience Manager cookie records information around synchronization of IDs. | Optional | 180 Days |
| AcastLang | This Acast cookie is used to determine the preferred language of the visitor and sets the language accordingly on the website. | Required | Persistant |
| Jwplayer.bandwidthEstimate | This JWPlayer cookie estimates the users bandwidth to enhance video performance. | Required | Persistant |
| Jwplayer.mediaIds | This JWPlayer cookie is essential for playing videos on our website. | Required | Persistant |
| jwplayerLocalId | This JWPlayer cookie is used to determine the optimal video quality based on the visitor's device and network settings. | Optional | Persistant |
| unifiedDashboardAuth | This JWPlayer is essential and enables us to load videos on our website. | Required | Session |
| RichHistory | This Twitter/X Cookie collects data on visitors' preferences and behaviour on the website - This information is used make content and advertisement more relevant to the specific visitor. | Optional | Session |
| personalization_id | This Twitter/X cookie tracks activities on and off Twitter for a personalized experience | Optional | 13 Months |
| Guest_id | This Twitter/X Cookie is used for authentication. | Optional | 13 Months |
| Guest_id_ads | This Twitter/X Cookie is used for advertising when logged out. | Optional | 13 Months |
| Guest_id_marketing | This Twitter/X Cookie is used for advertising when logged out. | Optional | 13 Months |
| Osano_consentmanager | This Osano cookie is embedded by ShareThis and stores the users consent status. | Optional | 1 Year |
| Osano_consentmanager_uuid | This Osano cookie is embedded by ShareThis and stores the users consent identifier. | Optional | 1 Year |
| x-ibm-dx-tenant-id | This IBM cookie enables the use of our Rosie chat assistant. | Required | Session duration |
| x-ibm-dx-user-id | This IBM cookie enables the use of our Rosie chat assistant. | Required | Session duration |
| recentSearches | This cookie lists the users recent searches to make searching easier in future. | Required | Persistant |
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
ShareThis, Inc
Google Advertising Products
Google Analytics Products
HotJar
JW Player
CrwdCntrl
DoubleClick (Google)
Twitter/X
The UK Trade Desk Ltd
Acast
Adobe Audience Manager
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Social Media OFF
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