Cookies policy

The cookie policy below explains that in using our website, along with most other sites, there will be some small files placed on your computer to help the site remember your preferences and to speed up your use of the site.

Cookie Policy

Our website, along with many other websites, uses cookies. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is placed on your computer or mobile device if you agree. The cookies we use help make our website work as you would expect. We do not use cookies to collect any personal or sensitive information (without your express permission). We do not pass information to advertising networks or third parties.

If the settings on your web browser are set to accept cookies, we understand this and the continued use of the website to mean that you accept our cookies. You can change your browser settings so that you do not accept our cookies or any other website cookies. You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing so however, may limit the functionality of our website.

Cookies used on this site

Our site uses session cookies to allow websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session. These session cookies expire after a browser session so would not be stored longer term. For this reason session cookies may sometimes be considered less privacy intrusive.
When you are working with an application, you open it, do some changes and then you close it. This is much like a Session. The computer knows who you are. It knows when you start the application and when you end. But on the internet the web server does not know who you are and what you do because the HTTP address doesn't maintain state. A PHP session solves this by allowing you to store user information on the server for later use (i.e. username, shopping items, etc). However, session information is temporary and will be deleted after the user has left the website. Sessions work by creating a unique id (UID) for each visitor and store variables based on this UID. The UID is either stored in a cookie or is propagated in the URL.

Cookie name: user_username
This cookie means that the login stays filled in, in the site manager. This Cookie holds information that you have been logged in to site manager and it makes sure that when a user leaves their computer without logging out and then returns, the user will stay logged in. This can vary depending on how the site is setup.

Facebook
We link to Facebook which does use cookies.
You can see Facebook’s cookie policy by clicking here http://www.facebook.com/help/cookies

The facebook cookies include the following:
datr
Lsd
reg_ext_ref
reg_fb_gate
reg_fb_ref

Twitter
We link to Twitter and embed a Twitter feed which does use cookies. These cookies are set when you use the Twitter area of our news section or the twitter link.
You can see Twitter’s cookie policy by clicking here https://twitter.com/privacy

The cookie names are:
original_referer
external_referer
guest_id
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