Our website uses cookies and similar technologies, as almost all websites do. This is to provide you with a better experience, and to improve our website and services. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you browse websites. A typical cookie contains the name of the server the cookie came from, a unique identifier, the cookie’s code and the cookie’s lifetime.
Except in the below list, our website does not use cookies or similar technologies to:
This means that, even if we are asked to pass on information when required by law or by a regulatory body (e.g. by a law enforcement agency), the data we could share about you, would be very limited. We may provide third parties with summarized data about visitors and users to our site.
When using our website, you may also receive website third party cookies, e.g. YouTube, Google and others. These are placed on your device by those companies. We take care when choosing a third-party partner or supplier to ensure that your privacy and personal data are protected. Some of these services may be based outside the UK and the European Union and fall outside EU and UK jurisdiction. If you are concerned about this, you can visit the Information Commissioner’s website for more information or change the cookies settings on your browser (see below).
For more information about how we collect, use and store your data and what we do to conform with data protection regulation, please see our privacy statements.
| Cookie Name | What it does |
| __ga and gtm | These are common cookies provided by Google Analytics to allow us to monitor how the site is used and thereby help improve the efficiency of the site and the user experience.
We use these cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows, Internet Explorer or Firefox), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called analytics programs also tell us, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before. |
| Starting with rc | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| PHPSESSID | This cookie is native to PHP(PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) applications. The cookie stores and identifies a user’s unique session ID to manage user sessions on the website. The cookie is a session cookie and will be deleted when all the browser windows are closed. |
| Starting with give_ | Cookies from GiveWP to enable donations |
| Starting with yt and ysc and VISITOR | YouTube – various cookies used by YouTube to store the user’s video preferences using embedded YouTube videos, to track the number of views of a video, to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen, to determine which user interface a user gets, and to improve the user experience by providing more relevant search results in the future. |
| kinsta_bypass_cache
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A bespoke cookie that we set as we exclude some pages from caching (needed for the functionality of the website) on Kinsta. |
| Starting with ae | Audioeye sets this cookie for the functioning of the accessibility feature. |
| Starting with cookielawinfo and viewed_cookie_policy | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie records whether or not the user has consented to use cookies and the user consent for the listed categories. |
| Starting with _hj | These are cookies provided by Hotjar to allow us to monitor how the site is used and thereby help improve the efficiency of the site and the user experience. |
| Starting with _cf | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
| Starting with m and _stripe | Stripe sets these cookies to set a unique session identifier and for fraud prevention purposes. |
| _cfuvid | Calendly sets this cookie to track users across sessions to optimize user experience by maintaining session consistency and providing personalized services |
Before cookies are placed on your device, you are given the opportunity to consent to the use of certain categories of cookies, i.e:
Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the website’s basic functions and security. They do not store any personal information.
Performance cookies: Help us analyse website performance to improve your experience.
Advertisement / Marketing cookies: Used to track visitors across websites and collect information to provide relevant adverts and marketing campaigns.
Analytical cookies: Help us understand how you use the website, providing data on visitors, traffic, and more.
Preference cookies: Remember your settings (like language or location) to personalise the website for you.
If the settings on the software you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are happy to allow us to put these cookies on your device. You can change your preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘Manage Cookies’ button at the bottom left-hand side of the webpages. Alternatively, you can turn off cookies at the browser level (see below). However, doing so may mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
You can control cookies through your web browser settings. The way to do this varies depending on which browser you use (like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc.). Please check your browser’s help menu or settings to find out how to block or manage cookies. Keep in mind that turning off cookies might affect how some websites work.
From time to time we may update this statement without warning. Please look at it regularly. Last updated: May 2025.
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