Cookies Policy
What is a Cookie?
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. This information is used to track visitor use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity.
For further information visit aboutcookies.org or allaboutcookies.org.
You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the above websites tell you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases some of our website features may not function as a result.
Other Websites
Our website sometimes contains links to other websites. This cookies policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own policies.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. Information on Google's safeguarding and privacy policy can be found here.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie | Name | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| PHP session cookie | PHPSESSID | The PHPSESSID cookie is native to PHP and enables websites to store serialised state data. On the Action website it is used to establish a user session and to pass state data via a temporary cookie, which is commonly referred to as a session cookie. As the PHPSESSID cookie has no timed expiry, it disappears when the client is closed. |
| AddThis.com | _atuvc | The __atuvc cookie is created and read by the AddThis social sharing site JavaScript on the client side in order to make sure the user sees the updated count if they share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. No data from that cookie is sent back to AddThis and removing it when disabling cookies would cause unexpected behaviour for users. |
| AddThis.com | di | Maintenance cookie that helps manage expiration for other cookies. Date tracking cookies for determining expiration of other cookies. |
| AddThis.com | dt | Maintenance cookie that helps manage expiration for other cookies. Date tracking cookies for determining expiration of other cookies. |
| AddThis.com | uid | Uniquely assigned machine-generated user ID. |
| AddThis.com | uit | Login time tracking cookie. |
| Google Analytics | _ga | Used to distinguish users. |
| Google Analytics | _gat | Used to throttle request rate. |
| Google Analytics | _gid | Used to distinguish users. |
| Hotjar | _hjid | This cookie is set when the user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. |