Cookies

When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.

These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:

• enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task
• recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested
• measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast

You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them through "Internet browser cookies - what they are and how to manage them"

Our use of cookies

Cookies for improving service

Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This to ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast.

Name: _utma
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 2 years

Name: _utmb
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 30 minutes

Name: _utmc
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: when user exits browser

Name: _utmz
Typical content: randomly generated number + info on how the site was reached (e.g. directly or via a link, organic search or paid search)
Expires: 6 months

Cookies for booking for an event

Two cookies are used for tracking your progress through event registration, ensuring that your registration details and status messages are only shown to you.

Name: session
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: when user exits browser

Name: s_session
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: when user exits browser

Cookies for accessibility

Our site uses cookies to record whether to display the large text size and/or high visibility versions of the site.

Name: style 
Typical content: 'Normal' or 'High Visibility'
Expires: when user exits browser

Name: textsize
Typical content: blank or 'large'
Expires: when user exits browser