Before we place cookies on your computer, you will be presented with a message bar requesting your consent to set those cookies. By giving your consent to the placing of these cookies, you are enabling us to provide a better experience and service to you. You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of cookies; however certain features of the website may not function fully or as intended.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your device if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your device's hard drive

Types of cookies and why we use them

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log in to secure areas 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.
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 information 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:

Cookie

Name

Purpose

More information

_cfuid

Cloudflare cookie for identifying individual visitors privately

Ensures our content delivery network can deliver assets to your browser as fast as possible.

Essential

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170156-Understanding-the-Cloudflare-Cookies

accepted_cookies, declined_cookies

The Influence Room consent cookie

This cookie remembers your cookie preference once you have interacted with our cookie consent banner.

Non-essential

messagesUtk

Used for our webchat tool

This cookie records if you have or have not used our webchat, and allows us to resume existing chat sessions.

Essential

_gat

Google Universal Analytics

This cookie is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites.

Non-essential

_ga, _gid

Google Universal Analytics

These cookies are used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the site’s analytics reports.