About Cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on the device you are using to access a website. Almost all website's use cookies as a way of improving visitor experience on the site. Cookies help website's perform a number or important tasks such as letting you navigate between pages easily and efficiently, remembering your preferences on the website and generally improving your experience with the site. It is common for websites to use cookies anonymously as a way to see roughly where their visitors come from and what pages on the site are popular and add the most value to their experience on the site.
Cookies cannot carry viruses or install malware on your computer, so pose no security threat when you spend time on a website. Generally cookies are split into two categories:
- 'First party' cookies are those set by the website itself.
- 'Third party' cookies are set by other websites but have an input into your experience on the site.
The cookies that we use on this website:
| Cookie Name |
Expires |
Description |
| myAppRememberMe |
30 Days | Automatically logs the user onto the site |
| symfony |
Date not set | The symfony framework is an IT development platform |
| __utma |
729 Days | Used by Google analytics. Find out more |
| __utmb |
1 Day | Used by Google analytics. Find out more |
| __utmz |
181 Days | Used by Google analytics. Find out more |
| __utmc |
Date not set | Used by Google analytics. Find out more |
| WRUID |
364 Days | Used by Clicktale. Find out more |
| WRIgnore |
10 minutes | Used by Clicktale. Find out more |
How you can manage your cookies
Browsers on most web enabled devices are typically set up to accept cookies. If you want to change the preferences for cookies on your device, you will be able to do this through your browser settings; the Help function within your browser should tell you how. You may also wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains detailed information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers.