INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of necessary cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your phone or computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or use our voting application.
- Statistical 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.
- Preferences 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).
Necessary
| Cookie | Provider | Type | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| __Host-next-auth.csrf-token | OneStepCloser | HTTP | Session | Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie is essential for the s ecurity of the website and visitor. |
| __Secure-next-auth.callback-url | OneStepCloser | HTTP | Session | Used in order to detect spam and improve the website's security. |
| nextauth.message | OneStepCloser | HTTP | Persistent | Preserves users states across page requests. |
| OptanonConsent | OneStepCloser | HTTP | Persistent | This cookie stores information about categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each. |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | OneStepCloser | HTTP | Persistent | This cookie enables the website not to show the cookie consent message more than once to a user. It contains no personal information. |
| CSRF token | OneStepCloser | HTTP | Persistent | This cookie is designed to help protect a site against at particular type of software attack on web forms. |
Statistical
| Cookie | Provider | Type | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | OneStepCloser | HTTP | 2 years | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| _gat | HTTP | 1 day | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. | |
| _gat_gtag | HTTP | Persistent | Used by Google Analytics for statistics. | |
| _gid | One Step Closer | HTTP | 1 day | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| vuid | Vimeo | HTTP | 2 years | Collects data on the user's visits to the website, such as which pages have been viewed. |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be statistical or performance cookies.
Our cookie consent tool gives you options to allow cookies. You can also block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.