Cookie policy

A cookie is a small file that is downloaded onto your device when you visit a website, which means the website can recognise your device if you return to it.

Cookies are used to:

recognise your device, so you don’t have to give the same information several times during the same online task
measure how you use the site, so it can be updated and improved based on your needs
provide data to help understand how a website and its services are used

Cookies can’t be used to identify you as an individual.

How cookies are used on this site

Essential cookies

Essential cookies are needed to ensure our website works properly. We don’t need to ask permission to use these. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site might not work.

Necessary cookies from this website

Name	Purpose	Expires
lcc-cookie-policy	Saves your cookie consent settings	1 day
lcc-cookie-policy-categories	Saves your cookie consent settings	1 day
lcc-cookie-policy-version	Saves your cookie consent settings	1 day

Analytics cookies (optional)

Analytics cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so that we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. If you don’t allow these cookies, we won’t know when you have visited our site, and won’t be able to monitor its performance.

All Google Analytics data is aggregated and anonymised. It is retained within Google Analytics for a maximum of 24 months.

Google analytics cookies from this website

Name	Purpose	Expires
_ga	Used to distinguish users on a domain	1 year
_ga_2NW6NVH89P	Used to persist session state	1 year

Google signals

This site uses Google signals. This helps us to better understand how you use our site on different devices and your demographics and interests, if you’re logged into your Google account and have accepted advertising personalisation.

Marketing cookies (optional)

These may be third-party cookies to store information about you, such as your age and gender, your user behaviour and things you may have already looked at, to target you with advertisements that are most relevant to you.

We embed media such as Vimeo videos on some of our pages. The suppliers of these services may also set cookies on your device when you visit the pages where we have used this type of content. These are known as third-party cookies. We have no control over third-party cookies.

You can read the third-party websites' cookie policies for more information about the cookies they collect:

Vimeo

Giving permission to collect analytics cookies

Turn on the analytics cookies on the cookie banner to give us permission to store those cookies on your device.

You can change your cookie settings in your browser. For instructions, check the support website for your browser.