COOKIE NOTICE

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES

What is a cookie? A cookie is a small text file stored by your web browser on your computer or mobile device. For more detailed information about cookies please visit www.allaboutcookies.org

What do we use cookies for? We use cookies to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how people use our sites and to help us improve their structure and content.

We use the following types of cookies:

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

• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.

• Analytical / performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors use our website. This helps us to improve how our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

More information about the cookies we use is set out in the table below.

FUNCTIONAL COOKIES

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace (our hosting platform) to securely service this website to you.

• Cookie Name: Crumb

Purpose and More Information: Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF)

CSRF is an attack vector that tricks a browser into taking unwanted action in an application when someone’s logged in

Type: Cookie

Duration: Session

• Cookie Name: Locked

Purpose and More Information: Prevents the password- protected screen from displaying if a visitor enters the correct site-wide password

Type: Cookie

Duration: Session

• Cookie Name: RecentRedirect

Purpose and More Information: Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO.

Type: Cookie

Duration: 30 minutes

• Cookie Name: siteUserCrumb

Purpose and More Information: Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF) for logged in site users.

Type: Cookie

Duration: Three years

• Cookie Name: announcement-bar

Purpose and More Information: Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it.

Type: localstorage

Duration: Persistent

• Cookie Name: squarespace-video-player-options

Purpose and More Information: Remembers video player selected preferences ( volume, playback speed, and quality) for videos uploaded directly to Squarespace.

Type: localstorage

Duration: Persistent

• Cookie Name: ss_cookieAllowed

Purpose and More Information: Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies

Type: Cookie

Duration: 30 days

• Cookie Name: Test

Purpose and More Information: Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors

Type: Cookie

Duration: Session

ANALYTICS COOKIES

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

• Cookie Name: ss_cid

Purpose and More Information: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

Duration: Two years

• Cookie Name: ss_cpvisit

Purpose and More Information: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

Duration: Two years

• Cookie Name: ss_cvisit

Purpose and More Information: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

Duration: 30 minutes

• Cookie Name: ss_cvr

Purpose and More Information: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

Duration: Two years

• Cookie Name: ss_cvt 30

Purpose and More Information: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

Duration: 30 minutes

THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

Our website provides links to other third-party websites. Please be aware that these third-party websites may deploy cookies on their websites which we have no control over.

TURNING OFF AND BLOCKING COOKIES

Functional and required cookies are always on. Analytical and performance cookies are only activated if you click “Accept”.

You can also refuse any cookies by activating the settings 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. You will need to adjust the setting on each device you use. If you disable the cookies that we use, this may impact your experience while on the site