We use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This allows us to provide you with a good experience while you browse and also helps us to improve our website.
A cookie is a small text file that we store on your computer or on any other device that you use to access our website (e.g. a mobile phone or other mobile device), if you agree to this. No personal information is stored in the cookies.
Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work, and to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website and to manage elements of their business.
Without certain cookies, some areas and functionalities of a website will not work.
The list below explains the cookies we use and why:
Google Analytics
These cookies allow us to anonymously collect information about how visitors to our website use our website.
They 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.
We only use these cookies to improve how our website works. We also anonymise IP addresses in our analytics so we cannot identify you.
By default, we tell Google not to store or use any cookies for Google Analytics until you accept them and we achieve this by using Google Consent Mode.
You can find out more information in the Google Privacy Policy and you can opt out of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics Opt-out Page.
The following first party cookies are related to this service:
| 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
- How Google Uses Cookies
Google Ads
Our website uses the Google Ads remarketing service to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site.
It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example not completing a performer profile.
This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to our website.
We also use Google Ads Conversion tracking tags on our website to measure the effectiveness of our online advertising campaigns.
Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy. We have no control over third party cookies.
By default, we tell Google not to store or use any cookies for Google Ads until you accept them and we achieve this 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.
The following first party cookies are related to this service:
| 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_gb | Analytics, Advertising | 90 days |
| FPAU | Analytics, Advertising | 90 days |
| FPGCLAW | Analytics, Advertising | 90 days |
| FPGCLGB | Analytics, Advertising | 90 days |
Google’s policy and cookie documents can be accessed below.
Facebook Pixel
We use Facebook Pixel to track user behaviour after a visitor has been redirected to the provider’s website by clicking on a Facebook ad. This enables us to measure the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes. The data collected in this way is anonymous to us, however, it is stored and processed by Facebook. Facebook may link this information to your Facebook account and also use it for its own promotional purposes, in accordance with Facebook’s Data Usage Policy. You can allow Facebook and its partners to place ads on and off Facebook. A cookie may also be stored on your computer for these purposes.
You can object to the collection of your data by Facebook pixel, or to the use of your data for the purpose of displaying Facebook ads here.
Facebook is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus guarantees compliance with European data protection legislation.
The following first party cookies are related to this service:
| Cookie | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| _fbp | To store and track visits across websites | 90 days |
How Do I Change My Cookie Settings?
You can open the Cookie Consent popup to manage your settings:
You can also 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.
To find out more about cookies visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org
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