OUR COOKIE POLICY

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

A cookie is a small text file stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies recognise your computer and tell us about your actions and remember your preferences on our website. Because all the data we get is anonymous, the cookies we use cannot be used to identify you. You can find out more at https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/online/cookies/.

WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE AND WHY?

We use the following third-party cookies in the following ways: 

  • YouTube: We have YouTube videos embedded in our website and the cookies track the views and geographical location of viewers so that we can understand our social reach and performance. Here are the cookies on our website:

GPS

This cookie is set by YouTube and registers a unique ID for tracking users based on their geographical location.

Duration: 30 minutes

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

This cookie is set by YouTube and is used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website.

Duration: 5 months

YSC

This cookie is set by YouTube and is used to track the views of embedded videos.

No duration

  • Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to collect data on how viewers interact with our website, such as the number of visitors and the pages they visit. This helps formulate a report which helps us improve the viewers’ experience. Here are the cookies on our website:

_gat

This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the collection of data on high traffic sites.

Duration:  1 minute

_gid

This cookie is installed by Google Analytics and is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected includes the number of visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form.

Duration: 1 day

IDE

Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile.

Duration: 1 year

_ga

This cookie is installed by Google Analytics and is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.

Duration: 2 years

HOW CAN YOU MANAGE YOUR COOKIES?

You can turn off and change your cookie preferences at any time. You can find out how to do this by visiting https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/online/cookies/.