Cookies Policy

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 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. The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site.

You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Policy on our website.

Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.

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.

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).

Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can 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. For more information about how to manage cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

 

Cookie Domain Type Description Duration
YSC .youtube.com Advertisement YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. session
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE .youtube.com Advertisement A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. 5 months 27 days
test_cookie .doubleclick.net Advertisement The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies. 15 minutes
IDE .doubleclick.net Advertisement Google DoubleClick IDE cookies are used to store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads and according to the user profile. 1 year 24 days
yt-remote-device-id youtube.com Advertisement YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. never
yt-remote-connected-devices youtube.com Advertisement YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. never
_ga .sequelgroup.co.uk Analytics The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. 2 years
_gid .sequelgroup.co.uk Analytics Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. 1 day
CONSENT .youtube.com Analytics YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. 2 years
_GRECAPTCHA www.google.com Necessary This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. 5 months 27 days
_gat .sequelgroup.co.uk Performance This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. 1 minute

 

Controlling Cookies

You may also refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. If you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you browse our site.

If you wish to delete cookies you can do so through your browser, and further information on how to do this can be found here.

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.