Last updated 7th November 2025
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
Along with strictly necessary and functional cookies, which enable users to perform basic functions or services they have asked for on our website, and to support site functionality, our third parties may also use cookies. These following named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. Third-party cookies are likely to be performance cookies, social media or targeting cookies.
| Cookie | Name | Purpose |
| Google Analytics | _ga _gclxxxx _gid _gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn _ga_xxxxxxxxxx _gat_gtag_UA_nnnnnnnn_n | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. |
| Contentsquare | _cs_s _cs_root-domain _cs_c _cs_id _cs_same_site | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, and the pages they visited. |
| Hotjar | _hjSession_891494 _hjSessionUser_891494 _hjTLDTest | A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensures that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | |
| Taptap Digital | _ttp | This cookie is typically associated with the use of Taptap Digital, a company specializing in digital advertising. It is used for tracking and ad personalization purposes. |
| Impact Radius | IR_gbd | This cookie is used for targeting and advertising purposes. It is associated with the company Impact Radius to track the effectiveness of marketing campaigns by understanding user actions. |
| bing.com | MUID _uetvid _uetsid MSPTC | This domain is owned by Microsoft – it is the site for the search engine Bing. This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. |
| youtube.com | VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE YSC | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
| disqus.com | __jid disqus_unique | This domain is owned by Discus. The main business activity is: Discus provides discussion forum software enabling website owners to plug powerful functionality into their sites. On some forums it also enables site owners to sell space to advertisers with the ability to target interest based audiences. |
| www.google.com | _GRECAPTCHA | This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer’s adverts appear. |
| doubleclick.net | test_cookie | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange. |
| doubleclick.net | receive-cookie-deprecation IDE ar_debug | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange. |
| tiktok.com | _ttp _tt_enable_cookie | TikTok is a social media platform owned by ByteDance, known for short-form video sharing. The service is used to create and share videos, and it utilizes cookies for various purposes including advertising and analytics. |
| Google Ads | GCL_AW_P | This domain is owned by Google. The main business activity is: Online Advertising |
| Adalyser | __adal_ca __adal_cw __adal_id | Adalyser is an analytics platform that is used to measure response to TV advertising. These cookies store which advertising campaign drove a user to visit, tie back conversion events to earlier visits and uniquely identify a device. |
You can change your cookie preferences at any time.
Most web browsers also allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
feefo.com | Third Party | The Rate Limiting Rules product uses a number of techniques for applying rate limits to traffic where multiple unique visitors share the same IP address, such as traffic from behind a NAT. These techniques can be enabled by using the cf.unique_visitor_id field in the rate limiting configuration. The _cfuvid cookie is only set when a site uses this option in a Rate Limiting Rule, and is only used to allow the Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address. Visitors who do not provide the cookie are likely to be grouped together and may not be able to access the site if there are many other visitors from the same IP address. | |
| _pinterest_ct_ua | ct.pinterest.com | Third Party | |
| s | recommender.scarabresearch.com | Third Party | |
| xp | recommender.scarabresearch.com | Third Party | |
| cdv | recommender.scarabresearch.com | Third Party |
Consent to use Tracking Technologies and changing settings
We will ask for your consent to place Tracking Technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested.
You can withdraw any consent to the use of non-essential Tracking Technologies or manage any other Tracking Technology preferences by accessing our cookie consent mechanism accessible at the bottom of each page.
In addition, if you want to disable Tracking Technologies, you can also change your website browser settings to reject Tracking Technologies. How you can do this will depend on the browser you use. Further details on how to disable cookies for the most popular browsers are set out below:
For Microsoft Edge:
- Open Edge: Launch the Microsoft Edge browser on your computer.
- Settings: Click on the three dots top-right corner and select “Settings”.
- Go to Cookies and Site Permissions: In the left-hand sidebar, click on “Cookies and site permissions”.
- Disable Cookie Saving: “Cookies and site data” section, toggle the switch for “Allow sites to save and read cookie data” or to block only third-party cookies, make sure the switch for “Allow sites to save and read cookie data (recommended)” is on and select “Block third-party cookies”.
- Restart Edge
For Google Chrome:
- Choose Settings> Advanced
- Under “Privacy and security,” click “Content settings”
- Click “Cookies”
For Safari:
- Choose Preferences > Privacy
- Click on “Remove all Website Data”
For Firefox:
- Choose the menu “tools” then “Options”
- Click on the icon “privacy”
- Find the menu “cookie” and select the relevant options
For further information about Tracking Technologies and how to disable them please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
If you do change your settings, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
We may change this policy from time to time, in which case we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this cookies policy.