Cookie Policy
We use cookies to provide you with a good experience when you use our website and to help us to improve it.
A cookie is a small text file that we store in your browser, if you agree.
We use the following cookies:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These are cookies that are required for our website to function correctly:
| Cookie | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| ci_session | Allows us to remember your login state | End of browser session |
| CookieControl | Remembers the preferences you set regarding use of cookies | 3 months |
| cpsa_alerts | Remembers which alert notifications you have closed | 30 days |
| cpsa_sso | Single sign-on between CPSA websites | 5 mins |
| login_token | Remember me facility at login | 7 days |
| PHPSESSID | Allows us to remember your login state | End of browser session |
Optional Cookies
Analytics (Google Analytics)
These cookies are used to help collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data.
By default, we tell Google not to store any cookies for Google Analytics until you accept them. This is achieved by using Google Consent Mode.
| Cookie | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| _ga_<container-id> | Used to persist session state | 2 years |
| _ga | Used to distinguish users | 2 years |
Google’s policy and cookie documents can be accessed below.
- Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites
- Security and privacy in Universal Analytics
- Types of Cookies Used by Google
You can find out more information in the Google Privacy Policy. You can opt out of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics Opt-out Page.
Remarketing (Google Ads)
We use Google Ads to show you our advertisements when you browse other websites.
We also use Google Ads Conversion tracking tags on our website to measure the effectiveness of our online advertising campaigns.
By default, we tell Google not to store any cookies for Google Ads until you accept them. This is achieved by using Google Consent Mode.
You can opt out of the Google Marketing Platform's use of cookies by visiting the Google Ad personalisation opt-out page.
| Cookie | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| __gads | Advertising | 13 months |
| _gac_gb_<wpid> | Analytics, Advertising | 90 days |
| _gcl_au | Analytics, Advertising | 90 days |
| _gcl_aw | Analytics, Advertising | 90 days |
| _gcl_dc | Analytics, Advertising | 90 days |
| _gcl_gb | Analytics, Advertising | 90 days |
| FPAU | Analytics, Advertising | 90 days |
| FPGCLAW | Analytics, Advertising | 90 days |
| FPGCLGB | Analytics, Advertising | 90 days |
Embedded Videos (YouTube)
We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click out of the embedded video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. Read more at YouTube's embedding videos information page.
Advertisements (Revive Adserver)
These cookies are required to ensure the correct operation of the advertisements system used on our websites.
| Cookie | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| OAGDPR | Contains the word "GDPR" in binary. | 1 year |
| OAGEO | Used to cache geolocation | End of browser session |
| OASCCAP, OASCAP, OACAP | Used for frequency capping of campaigns, banners | End of browser session |
| OASZCAP, OAZCAP | Used for frequency capping for zones | End of browser session |
| OACBLOCK, OABLOCK | Used for blocking delivery of the same campaign, banner, on the same page | 30 days |
| OXLIA | Used to store the timestamp of the last view of a banner | 1 year |
| OXLCA | Used to store the timestamp of the last click on a banner | 1 year |
Revive’s policy and cookie documents can be accessed below.
Further Information
To find out more about cookies visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org
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.
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 strictly necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers at the following links:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
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