Cookies

Essential Cookies

We use cookies to make our website work properly. For example:

  • When we ask if you consent to cookies, we use a cookie to remember your choice so that you don’t see our cookies consent message on every page.
  • If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
  • When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

There are two types of cookies:

  • A persistent cookie remains on your computer for a period of time to allow a website to recognise you when you return and present you with the appropriate content.
  • Session-specific cookies are deleted when you shut down your browser. These are used on sites where you log in; the cookie ensures that you stay logged in throughout that visit.

Google Analytics cookies

We ask for your consent to use cookies created by Google Analytics. Google Analytics helps us understand how people use our website and which content is most useful to our visitors.

Google Analytics creates persistent and session-specific cookies as follows:

Cookie name Default expiration time Description
_ga 2 years Used to distinguish users.
_gid 24 hours Used to distinguish users.
_ga_<container-id> 2 years Used to persist session state.
_gac_gb_<container-id> 90 days Contains Google Ads campaign related information.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.