Cookie Policy

List of cookies used

We use the following cookies on or in relation to our website:

Name of Cookie Essential or Non-Essential Type of Cookie First or Third-Party Session or Persistent 1 year Purpose
_ga Non-essential Analytical Third Party Session 1 year To distinguish website visitors
_gat Non-essential Analytical Third Party Session 1 year To distinguish website visitors
_gid Non-essential Analytical Third Party Session 1 year To distinguish website visitors
catAccCookies Non-essential Legal First Party Session 1 month To record the fact that this site uses cookies
wordpress_logged_in Essential User-specific First Party Session 1 year To determine logged-in users from non-logged-in users

Essential Cookies

These are cookies which are strictly necessary for our website to be able to operate or to provide you with a service on our website which you have requested. We use the following essential cookies on our website:

  • first party session cookies to identify and authenticate you when you log into our website so you do not need to repeatedly
    enter your login information. These cookies are: “wordpress_logged_in”.
  • first party persistent security cookies used for detecting repeated failed login attempts. These cookies
    are: “wordpress_logged_in”.
  • first party persistent security cookies used to prevent abuse of the login system on our website. These
    cookies are: “wordpress_logged_in”.

Non-Essential Cookies

These are cookies which are not essential for our website to be able to operate or to provide you with a service which you have requested. We use the following non-essential cookies on our website:

  • first party session cookies to remember your input when you fill in an online form over several pages on our website.
    These cookies are: “catAccCookies”.
  • first party session cookies to recognise whether you have accepted the use of cookies
    on our website. These cookies are: “catAccCookies”. These cookies expire after 30 days.
  • third party session cookies to track user behaviour on the site. These cookies are: “_ga”, “_gat” and “_gid”. These cookies expire after days.

Accepting or rejecting cookies

Civicuk Cookie Control

You can accept or reject non-essential cookies by using our cookie management tool. To do this, simply opt-out of the cookie policy by clicking on the cog icon in the bottom-left of the screen and selecting “opt out”.