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General
Name: spxCookies
Content: "dismissed"
Purpose: This tells the web browser to hide the Cookie notice. It is only set after the user has dismissed the notice.
Expires: 5 years
Name: __cfduid
Content: randomly generated code of letters and numbers
Purpose:This is generated by CloudFlare, a third-party service which helps protect the website from security threats and boosts performance.
Expires: 6 years approx.
Drupal
This website is built on the popular Drupal open source platform and uses a number of standard Drupal cookies in order to function fully. These are detailed below:
Name: SESSxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (x represent a unique string of letters and numbers)
Purpose: This helps to maintain a user session, remembering contents of the shopping basket, and other preferences as set by the user
Content: unique string of randomly generated letters and numbers
Expires: when the user closes the browser
Name: has_js
Content: 1
Purpose: This enables Drupal to customise delivery of content according to whether this value is set or not.
Expires: when the user closes the browser
Google Analytics
The following cookies may be set by Google Analytics. A brief summary of each is given below. However for full and accurate information on how they are used, please visit:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCoo...
Name: _utma
Content: randomly generated number
Purpose: Determines if the current web browser in use has visited this website before. This is used to help determined for example how many repeat visits the website might get.
Expires: 2 years
Name: _utmb
Content: randomly generated number
Purpose: Maintains a session for tracking user activity on the website.
Expires: 30 minutes
Name: _utmc
Content: randomly generated number
Purpose: Used by earlier versions of Google Analytics. It is now depreciated but still created for backwards compatibility.
Expires: when user closes browser
Name: _utmz
Content: randomly generated number and code
Purpose: Stores information about how the page was reached (eg directly, via a link or organic search etc)
Expires: 6 months