Information about our use of cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
Analytical/performance cookies. They 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.
| Cookie name | Purpose | More information |
| __hstc | HubSpot. The main cookie for tracking visitors. | It contains the domain, utk , initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). (Expires: 2 years) Read more |
| __hssrc | HubSpot. Whenever the session cookie is changed, this cookie is also set. | It is set to 1 and used to determine if the user has restarted their browser. If this cookie does not exist when we manage cookies, we assume it is a new session. (Expires: None. Session cookie) Read more |
| __hssc | HubSpot. This cookie keeps track of sessions. | This is used to determine if we should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It contains the domain, viewCount (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp. (Expires: 30 min) Read more |
| _gat | Google Analytics | Used to distinguish users. (Expires: 1 min). Read more |
| _ga | Google Analytics | Used to distinguish users. (Expires: 2 years). Read more |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Used to distinguish users. (Expires: 24 hours). Read more |
Functionality 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).
| hubspotutk | HubSpot. This cookie is used to keep track of a visitor’s identity. | This cookie is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when de-duplicating contacts. (Expires: 10 years) Read more |
| messagesUtk | HubSpot. This cookie is used to recognize visitors who chat with you via the messages tool. | If the visitor leaves your site before they’re added as a contact, they will have this cookie associated with their browser. If you have a history of chatting with a visitor and they return to your site later in the same cookied browser, the messages tool will load your conversation history with that visitor. Read more |
| wp-settings-303 | WP settings cookie | WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. (Expires: 1 year) Read more |
| wp-settings-time-303 | WP settings cookie | WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. (Expires: 1 year) Read more |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.