In this section you will find information on what cookies may be set when you visit our website and if necessary how to reject or delete those cookies.
Our cookie statement
Like most websites, we use cookies to collect anonymous statistics about how people use the site and to help us keep it relevant for the user. Cookies remember bits of information from your visit to the site.
A cookie is a simple text file that's stored on your computer or mobile device by a website's server.
How we use cookies to collect statistics
To improve our service we collect anonymous web statistics using Google Analytics.
Its stores several cookies on users' computers or mobiles devices to tell us how many people have visited each web page, how they got there, and where they navigated to from there. The data collected is completely anonymous and does not store any personal details.
Changing your cookie settings
You can change your computer settings at any time to accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies. How you do this depends on your web browser.
Our site cookies
| Name |
Typical Content |
Expires |
Purpose |
| mdc-opt-in |
boolean |
3 years |
We need to show you this message so you know about our cookies. |
| fb-xmdcwfx |
randomly generated numbers |
1 month |
Used to remember your auto login preference |
| ASP.NET_SessionID |
randomly generated numbers |
when you close your browser |
Used to store the session ID of a user when browsing the site |
Google Translate
Google Translate cookies
| Name |
Typical Content |
Expires |
Purpose |
| ASPSESSIONIDCQDBSADB |
randomly generated numbers |
when you close your browser |
Used to remember the language preference of a visitor |
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc.
Google Analytics uses cookies to help analyse how the website is used. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for us and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.
Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
| Name |
Typical Content |
Expires |
Purpose |
| _utma |
randomly generated numbers |
2 years |
Stores each user's amount of visits, and the time of the first visit, the previous visit, and the current visit (presumably partly for double checking of this information). |
| _utmb |
randomly generated numbers |
30 minutes |
Used to check approximately how long you stay on a site: when a visit starts, and approximately ends |
| _utmc |
randomly generated numbers |
when you close your browser |
Same as _utmb |
| _utmv |
randomly generated numbers |
2 years |
Used for user-custom variables in Analytics |
| _utmz |
randomly generated number and information on how the site was reached (e.g. direct or via a link, organic search or paid search) |
6 months |
Stores where a visitor came from (search engine, search keyword, link) |
Twitter
Parts of this website use Twitter feeds, a micro-blogging platform by Twitter, Inc.
Twitter widgets may add third-party cookies - those not set directly by our site - to help analyis usage and remember your session if you are also logged in to the Twitter service. To that end, Twitter widgets may set all of the cookies that Google Analytics set (above) and also:
| Name |
Typical Content |
Expires |
Purpose |
| _twitter_sess |
randomly generated numbers |
when you close your browser |
Remember your logged in Twitter session |