Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you'd expect
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
- Continuously improve our website for you
We do NOT use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
You can learn more about the cookies we use below.
There are two types of cookie you may encounter when using this site:
- First party cookies: these are our own cookies, controlled by us and used to provide information about usage of our site.
- Third party cookies: these are cookies found in other companies’ internet tools which we are using to enhance our site.
First party cookies
This web site uses cookies. We’ve listed each of them below with more details about why we use them and how long they will last.
Cookies set by this website
|
Name |
Purpose |
Typical content |
Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
|
SESSxxxID |
Authentication session to prevent having to login multiple times in one browser session. This is only set if you authenticate via the site. This may happen if you purchase items from the shop or make use of our commenting |
A unique id that ties the current session to a database settings table |
One week |
| cookie-agreed-v2 | This cookie collects information about whether or not the user has agreed to cookies. Values are 0 (disagreed), 1 (agreed, show cookie banner) or 2 (agreed). | 0,1,2 | 1 year |
Third party cookies
We use a number of suppliers who may also set cookies on their websites’ on its behalf. This site does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the third party websites for more information about these.
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.
Cookie provider: Disqus
Purpose: We use Disqus for our web site commenting where enabled.
Cookie names: __qca, mc, UID, UIDR, disqus_unique, testCookie
More info: Disqus cookie policy
Cookie provider: Ecwid by Lightspeed
Purpose: Our online shop is hosted with Ecwid.
More info: Ecwid by Lightspeed Privacy Policy
Cookie provider: Eventbrite
Purpose: Used to deliver event booking services and content tailored to the user’s interests.
Cookie names: _ga, _gat, _gid, AS, csrftoken, eblang, G, janus_re, mgref, SP, SS, ebGAClientId, lux_uid, SERVERID
More info: Eventbrite Privacy Policy
Cookie provider: Facebook
Purpose: We use Facebook cookies for conversion tracking, optimisation, creating audiences for Facebook Ads and marketing.
Cookie names: _fbp, fr
More info: About Facebook cookies
Cookie provider: Google
Purpose: Used to understand website usage including how users found and explored our site and how their experience can be enhanced. Google also provides campaign tracking, advertising and website functionality services.
Cookie names: IDE, _ga, _gat, _gat_UA-xxxxxxx-xx, _gid
More info: Google Cookie Policy. You can opt-out of google analytics here.
Cookie provider: Formstack
Purpose: We use Formstack for online direct debit membership subscription payments.
More info: Formstack Privacy Policy
Cookie provider: Hotjar
Purpose: Anonymously analyses how the website is being used to improve the user experience.
Cookie names: _hjSessionUser_xxxxxx, _hjFirstSeen, _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress, _hjIncludedInSessionSample, _hjSession_xxxxxxx, _hjIncludedInPageviewSample
More info: Hotjar Privacy Policy
Cookie provider: Issuu
Purpose: We occasionally embed documents hosted on our behalf by Issuu.
Cookie names: _clsk, _clck, _uetmsclkid, _gid, _pin_unauth, _uetsid, _hjSessionUse, _vwo_uuid_v2, _rdt_uuid, _gcl_au, _uetvid, __qca, _vis_opt_s, mp_xxx_mixpanel, _vwo_ds, _fbp, _vwo_uuid, _ga, iutk
More info: Issuu cookie policy
Cookie provider: Paypal
Purpose: We use Paypal as a payment gateway for some of our online payment transactions.
Cookie names: AKDC, LANG, X-PP-SILOVER, akavpau_ppsd, enforce_policy, nsid, ts, ts_c, tsrce, x-csrf-jwt, x-pp-s
More info: Paypal Cookie Policy
Cookie provider: Stripe
Purpose: We use Stripe as a payment gateway for some of our online payment transactions.
Cookie names: __stripe_mid, __stripe_sid
More info: Stripe Cookie Policy
Cookie provider: Survey Monkey
Purpose: We occasionally embed or link to surveys hosted on our behalf by Survey Monkey.
Cookie names: ep201, ep202, RP_XXXXXXXX, sso_user, CX_XXXXXXXX and P_XXXXXXXX, sm_ir
More info: Survey Monkey Cookie Policy
Cookie provider: TypeKit (Adobe Fonts)
Purpose: Adobe Fonts provide the typefaces/fonts used on our website. The cookie keeps track of special fonts used on the web site for internal analysis. The cookie does not register any visitor data.
Cookie names: p.gif
More info: Adobe Privacy Centre
Cookie provider: Vimeo
Purpose: We embed videos from Vimeo. When you press play Vimeo will drop third party cookies to enable the video to play and to collect analytics data such as how long a viewer has watched the video. These cookies do not track individuals.
Cookie names: player, vuid
More info: Vimeo Cookie Policy
Cookie provider: YouTube
Purpose: We embed videos from YouTube. This may set cookies on your computer, particularly if you are logged into a Google or YouTube account.
Cookie names: __Secure-3PSIDCC, __Secure-3PAPISID
__Secure-3PSID, YSC, PREF, LOGIN_INFO, __Secure-YEC, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE CONSENT
More info: Google Cookie Policy
Most web browsers 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 and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
We update this policy periodically.
Last updated: September 2022