What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small data files that websites generate and ask to store on your computer. Most websites use cookies in one form or another. They are typically used to:

  • remember settings, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you visit a new page

  • remember information you give to a website, such as a list of products in your shopping basket

  • measure how you use the website so we can make sure it meets your needs

To learn more about cookies and how to manage them, visit AboutCookies.org, or please read on to find out more about how we use cookies.

Our Cookies Policy

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Measuring Website Usage

Google Analytics is in use to collect information about how visitors use this site. This provides us with important information that can enable the site to work better. We do not link this information to your name or address. The following cookies are used by Google Analytics:

  • Description - Tracks the number of times a visitor has been to the site, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred.

    Duration - 2 years

  • Description - Holds a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor first visits the site.

    Duration - 30 minutes

  • Description - Holds a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves the site.

    Duration - Session (until the browser is closed)

  • Description: Holds details of either an event, transaction, item or custom variable.

    Duration: 10 minutes

  • Description: Keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine they used, what link was clicked on, what keyword they used, and where in the world they are when they accessed the website.

    Duration: 6 months.

  • Description: Included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the site’s user reports.

    Duration: 2 years

  • Description: Queues requests sent to Google Analytics.

    Duration: 1 minute.

  • Description: Holds a unique value to distinguish between users.

    Duration: 24 hours.

Details of Google’s privacy policy can be found here.