Browsing & Cookies
When you use this website, we'll collect information while you browse using cookies. Cookies are small data files saved on your device. Our cookies don't collect or store any information that personally identifies you.
Some of the cookies are for site functionality, while others help us to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used (site analytics).
We don't use marketing or advertising cookies, but we do display embedded news from third party sites on our news page, and they do use marketing cookies. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
By using our website you consent to for us to use cookies to collect this information in accordance with the terms of this policy. You can however decline cookies using our cookie control pop-out on every page (look for the rectangle on the bottom left of every page). You can also manually enable and disable cookies on your web browser - find out how on All About Cookies.
What Cookie Types do we Use?
We categorise our cookies as either analytical or functional cookies.
Cookies can be:
- persistent – meaning they're stored by your web browser and will remain valid until a set expiry date
- session – meaning they'll expire when your web browser is closed
They may also be first-party or third-party (set by a third-party server). Third-party cookies are set on our news pages only, where we embed our news stories from providers such as Facebook and Twitter.
First-party cookies: analytical
| Cookie name | Expiration time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Persistent (400 days) | Registers a unique ID to generate statistical data on how the site is used |
| _gat | Persistent (1 day) | Used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate |
| _gid | Persistent (1 day) | Registers a unique ID to generate statistical data on how the site is used |
First-party cookies: functional
| Cookie name | Expiration time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CookieControl | Persistent (90 days) | Used by the cookie control script to store the users cookie consent state |
| user_id | Session | Used by the search feature to register a unique ID |
Third-party cookies
These cookies may be set by third-party websites and are needed for us to deliver our content from other sites, for example, to embed news from our Facebook and Twitter feeds.
If a cookie is unclassified, we are waiting for clarification or data about it's purpose.
| Cookie name | Set by | Expiration time | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | Search IQ (search feature) | Persistent - 1 day | Used to distinguish between humans and bots in order to make valid reports on the use of the search feature |
| presence | Session | Unclassified | |
| fr | Persistent (90 days) | Unclassified | |
| xs | Persistent (1 year) | Unclassified | |
| wd | Persistent (1 week) | Unclassified | |
| usida | Session | Unclassified | |
| sb | Persistent (312 days) | Unclassified | |
| c_user | Persistent (1 year) | Unclassified | |
| dpr | Persistent (1 week) | Unclassified | |
| datr | Persistent (312 days) | Unclassified | |
| _ga | Persistent (400 days) | Used by Twitter for Google Analytics tracking | |
| _gid | Persistent (1 day) | Used by Twitter for Google Analytics tracking | |
| auth_multi | Persistent (400 days) | This cookie is for authentication if the user has multiple accounts | |
| auth_token | Persistent (400 days) | This cookie is used by Twitter for account login and authentication | |
| ct0 | Persistent (5 days) | This cookie is ued by Twitter is for authentication and analytics | |
| d_prefs | Persistent (100 days) | This cookie is for your Twitter cookie preferences | |
| dnt | Persistent (1 year) | This cookie is for opt-out of ads personalization | |
| eu_cn | Persistent (1 year) | This cookie is used by Twitter for their cookie notices | |
| external_referer | Persistent (1 week) | This cookie is used by Twitter for analytics | |
| guest_id | Persistent (400 days) | This cookie is for authentication | |
| guest_id_ads | Persistent (1 year) | This cookie is used by Twitter for advertising when logged out | |
| guest_id_marketing | Persistent (1 year) | This cookie is used by Twitter for advertising when logged out | |
| kdt | Persistent (1 year) | This cookie is used by Twitter to authenticate a known device | |
| personalization_id | Persistent (400 days) | This cookie is used by Twitter to track activities on and off Twitter for a personalized experience | |
| twid | Persistent (1 year) | This cookie is used by Twitter for authentication |
Your privacy
Our privacy statement is designed to advise you on how we handle and use your information. You can view it and other policies concerning confidentiality and data protection on our page about policies and procedures.
