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.
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 computer’s hard drive.
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 into 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).
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
|
Maximum retention
period
|
Placed by
|
Purpose
|
| .ASPXANONYMOUS
|
69 days, 10 hours, and 40 minutes
|
DNN Platform
|
This cookie is used by sites using the .NET technology platform from Microsoft. It enables the site to maintain an anonymous user-id to track unique users within a session without them logging in or otherwise identifying themselves.
|
| .DOTNETNUKE
|
session
|
DNN Platform
|
Issued by DNN, necessary for site functionality, including forms authentication, created when a user logs in (Please check this for yourself, slightly unsure about this one).
|
| DotNetNukeAnonymous
|
2 hours
|
DNN Platform
|
This cookie is set for forms authentication
|
| __RequestVerificationToken
|
session
|
DNN Platform
|
Anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser.
|
| authentication
|
session
|
DNN Platform
|
A DNN forms authentication cookie (created when a user logs in).
|
| dnn_IsMobile
|
session
|
DNN Platform
|
A DNN cookie used by the CMS to determine if the Visitor is browsing from a Mobile Device.
|
| language
|
session
|
DNN Platform
|
A DNN cookie is created called "language" to store the current language - in a monolingual install this is simply the browser default language, but if the site supports multiple languages then this may be different based on the language selected by clicking in the languages skin object.
|
| LastPageId
|
session
|
DNN Platform
|
A DNN cookie used by the CMS to store the TabID of the last visited page.
|
| StayInEditMode
|
session
|
DNN Platform
|
A DNN cookie used by the CMS to determine the UI state across postbacks (whether or not to reload the page with the 'Editing' interface).
|
| _ga
|
|
Google.com
|
Third party cookies for the use of google analytics
|
You 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.