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You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:

Cookie Name	Type	Purpose	Expiry
PHPSESSID	Strictly Neccessary	Allows users to login to the management functions of the site	End of browser session
essentialCookies	Functionality	Used to manage acceptance of essential site cookie and privacy policy	30 days
analyticalCookies	Functionality	Used to manage acceptance of analytical cookies listed below	30 days
marketingCookies	Functionality	Used to manage acceptance of marketing cookies listed below	30 days
_ga	Analytical/Performance	Used to distinguish users	2 years
_gid	Analytical/Performance	Used to distinguish users	24 hours
_gat OR _dc_gtm_	Analytical/Performance	Used to throttle request rate	1 minute
_gac_	Analytical/Performance	Contains campaign related information for the user	90 days
__utma	Analytical/Performance	Used to distinguish users and sessions	2 years from set/update
__utmt	Analytical/Performance	Used to throttle request rate	10 minutes
__utmb	Analytical/Performance	Used to determine new sessions/visits	30 mins from set/update
__utmc	Analytical/Performance	Used to determine new sessions/visits	End of browser session
__utmz	Analytical/Performance	Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site.	6 months from set/update
__utmv	Analytical/Performance	Used to store visitor-level custom variable data.	2 years from set/update
FPLC (Google Analytics)	Analytical/Performance	Used to track users across domains	20 hours
FPID (Google Analytics)	Analytical/Performance	Used to set client ID	2 years
GA_OPT_OUT (Google Analytics)	Analytical/Performance	Used to distinguish users	2 years
_ga_ (Google Analytics 360)	Analytical/Performance	Used to throttle request rate	1 minute
_dc_gtm_ (Google Analytics)	Analytical/Performance	Used to store visitor-level custom variable data.	2 years from set/update
test_cookie (Google Analytics)	Analytical/Performance		15 minutes
AMP_TOKEN (Google Universal Analytics)	Advertising/Targeting	Assigns unique user ID to each domain user	30 seconds - 1 year
_gac_ (Google Ads)	Advertising/Targeting	_gac_ (Google Ads)	90 days
NID (Google Ads Optimisation)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery on Google services for signed out users	6 months
id (Google)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery
__gads (Google DoubleClick)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery	13 months
pm_sess (Google DV360)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery	30 minutes
pm_sess_NNN (Google DV360)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery	30 minutes
aboutads_sessNNN (Google DV360)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery	30 minutes
AID (Google Ads)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery	13 months
IDE (Google Analytics; Google Ads)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery	13 months
TAID (Google Campaign Manager; Google Ads)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery	14 days
_gcl_au (Google Campaign Manager; Google Ads)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery	90 days
RUL (Google Ads)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery	12 months
FPGCLAW (Google Ads)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery	90 days
FPGCLGB (Google Ads)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery	90 days
_gcl_gb (Google Ads)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery	90 days
_gac_gb_ (Google Ads)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery	90 days
_gcl_aw (Google Ads)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery	90 days
1P_JAR (Google Ads)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery	30 days
Conversion (Google Ads)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery	90 days
YSC (Google Ads)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery	Session
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE (Google Ads)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery	180 days
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE__k (Google Ads)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery	180 days
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE__default (Google Ads)	Advertising/Targeting	Ad delivery	180 days

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