How We Use Cookies
In common with most other websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to provide essential functionality, and to help us understand how people use our website.
Some of these cookies are required, and some are optional. None of them contain any information that personally identifies you.
This page provides clear information on the cookies we use, and your choices.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app.
They act as a kind of short-term memory for the web, and enable a site to ‘remember’ little bits of information between pages or visits.
Cookies can be used by websites to identify and track users as they navigate different pages on a website, and to identify users returning to a website.
For further information about cookies, and how to manage or delete them, visit AboutCookies.org. Please note that we aren’t responsible for the content of external websites
2. How long are cookies stored on my device for?
Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies.
A persistent cookie will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date).
A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire when the web browser is closed,and is not stored between sessions.
On this website, we use both persistent and session cookies, as listed in Section 3.
3. What cookies do we use, and why?
We use two types of cookies - cookies that are necessary for our website to work, and cookies that provide us with information about how the website is used. We call this information “performance and analytics”. Knowing how the website is used helps us to improve the website in future.
Necessary Cookies
These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our website provider, to securely serve this website to you, and to remember your cookie choices.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crumb | Squarespace | Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF) | Session |
| squarespace-announcement-bar | Squarespace | Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it | Persistent |
| ss_performancecookiesAllowed | Squarespace | Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing Performance and Analytics cookies on their browser | 30 days |
| ss_marketingcookiesAllowed | Squarespace | Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing Marketing cookies on their browser | 30 days |
| Test | Squarespace | Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors | Session |
| RecentRedirect | Squarespace | Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO. | 30 min |
| PHPSESSID | ipcamlive | Used by our livestream host to identify a current user’s session. Its activity expires when a session is ended | Session |
Performance and Analytics Cookies
If and only if you give us your permission, these analytics and performance cookies are used on this website.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| ss_cid | Squarespace | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site | Two years |
| ss_cpvisit | Squarespace | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site | Two years |
| ss_cvisit | Squarespace | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site | 30 min |
| ss_cvr | Squarespace | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site | Two years |
| ss_cvt | Squarespace | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site | 30 min |
Advertising Cookies
We do not use any cookies of this type. Our website provider, Squarespace, includes this category by default, and we cannot remove it. Your selection in this category will have no effect.