Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies to function fully. We also use cookies to collect information about how visitors use our website. The data collected for this purpose is anonymous and we use the information to help us improve our website.

Cookies that help our website function

We use cookies on our website to enable users to:

• Sign up to our free bulletin, Business Advisers’ News
• Leave comments on our blog and news feeds
• Connect to our social media profiles or share our posts via Twitter, Linked in or Google+
• View our location using Google Maps.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small information files that are stored on your computer, tablet or smartphone when you visit a website. Cookies stored by your web browser are either ‘session cookies’ or ‘permanent cookies.’ Session cookies are automatically removed from your device when you exit your browser. Persistent cookies can be cleared by deleting cookies from your browser history.

Managing cookies

You can control the cookies stored on your device by accessing your browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to view, manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org, or www.aboutcookies.org.

To help you identify the cookies we use, we’ve listed them in more detail in the table below. Session cookies are denoted with an asterisk (*). All others are persistent.

Cookie	More information
Universal Analytics (Google) _ga, _gat	Collects information about how visitors use our website. The data is collected in an anonymous way. For more details, read Google’s data privacy and security policy here. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics altogether, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
General PHPSESSID*	General session cookie. Remembers recent user settings until you close your browser.
iContact Vaaisid_incap_541646, intellicontact_phpsess, incap_ses_455_541646*, _utmvbYEuRf	Required for the Business Advisers’ News sign up form. iContact is the service provider we use for managing subscriptions to our free weekly e-bulletin. Read iContact's privacy policy here.
Google/Google+ SID, PREF, HSID, SSID, APISID, SAPISID, NID	Google+ sharing and Google Maps. Read more about how Google uses cookies here.
LinkedIn bcookie, lang*, leo_auth_token, visit, JSESSIONID*, bscookie, lidc	LinkedIn sharing. Read LinkedIn’s cookie policy here.
Twitter pid, guest_id, _twitter_sess, external_referer, lang, eu-cn, metrics_token	Twitter sharing. Read Twitter’s cookie policy here.