Cookie Policy

This page says which cookies this website sets, what each one is for, and how long it lasts. It is short because the answer is short. It is kept as its own document rather than folded into the Privacy Policy because a visitor asking "what does this site put on my machine" deserves a page that answers exactly that.

A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to store, and which the browser sends back on later visits so the site can recognise the same browser again. Some cookies are needed for a site to work at all; others exist to measure, target or track. This site uses one of the first kind, in the administration area, and analytics cookies that measure how the site is used. It uses none for advertising.

The public website uses Google Analytics, which sets first-party cookies (_ga and _ga_MPHPNN1WKS) to distinguish one browser from another and measure how the site is used. They last up to 2 years. The site sets no advertising or social media cookies, and runs no advertising or social media embeds.

The administration area is used by our own staff to run the site. It sets a single cookie:

• Name: a session identifier, set by our own server. First-party only — it is never set by, shared with, or readable by any other site.
• Purpose: to keep a signed-in member of staff signed in between page loads. It carries no advertising or analytics purpose and identifies nothing beyond the session it belongs to.
• Lifetime: it expires when the session does, and is removed on sign-out. Expired sessions are cleared from our records seven days after they end.

This cookie is only ever set for someone who has signed in with an account we have given them. A visitor to the public website never receives it.

Nothing. The site does not use local storage, session storage or any other browser storage to remember anything about you or your visit. Where it respects a preference — reduced motion, for instance — it reads that setting from your browser or operating system each time, and stores nothing of its own.

The site loads its typeface from its own servers rather than from a font network, and embeds no third-party players, maps or widgets on its pages. The only third party that sets a cookie through this site is Google, for analytics. Where we link to another site, that site's own cookie policy applies once you arrive there.

Every modern browser lets you see, block and delete cookies through its settings, and lets you refuse them for a particular site. Blocking cookies on the public website does not stop any page from working. You can also use Google's Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. Blocking them in the administration area will prevent staff from staying signed in, which is the only thing the cookie does.

If the site ever starts setting a cookie it does not set today, this page will be updated before that happens, and the effective date shown with it will change. We do not add a cookie first and describe it later.

Questions about cookies or about anything stored by this site go to the address shown with this document.