What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters that can be placed on your computer or mobile device that uniquely identify your browser or device.

What are Cookies used for?

Cookies allow a site to know if your computer or device has visited that site before. Cookies can then be used to help understand how the site or service is being used, help you navigate between pages efficiently, help remember your preferences, and generally improve your browsing experience.

What Cookies are used here?

The following user cookies track sessions on the site and if the user has logged in.  wordpress_[hash]

• wordpress_logged_in_[hash]
• wordpress_test_cookie
• wp-settings-{time}-[UID]

The cookie consent popup uses a cookie (viewed_cookie_policy ) to determine whether the user has viewed the cookie consent policy so that it knows not to display again.

Further details on these cookies can be found here: https://www.cookielawinfo.com/wordpress-cookies-list-why-they-are-used/

Google Analytics are used to monitor site usage.  It sets the following cookies. None of these cookies contain personably identifiable information.

• __utma,
• __utmb,
• __utmc,
• __utmz

Further details can be found here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage#gajs