Cookie Policy

A “cookie” is a text file containing small amounts of information which is stored on your computer, tablet or mobile (device) when you visit a website. There are different types of cookies which are used to do different things, such as letting you navigate from page to page on a website efficiently, remembering preferences you have given a website, and improving your overall experience. Others are used to measure the number of site visits and the most popular pages visited, and may be used to provide you with advertising which is more tailored to your interests.

The cookies we use cannot be used to identify you personally.

These pieces of information that we gather are used in the following ways:

We use cookies that are strictly necessary to enable you to move around the site or to provide certain basic features.
We also use cookies to help us to improve the performance of our website to provide you with a better user experience.
We use a third party to monitor and analyse traffic to, from and within our website.
Some pages on this site may also contain content embedded from, for example Vimeo, which sets its own cookies to track traffic to that particular video.

First Party Cookies are set by the website, you are visiting and they can only be read by that site.

Third Party Cookies are set by a different organisation to the owner of the website you are visiting. For example, the website might use a third party analytics company who will set their own cookie to perform this service. The website you are visiting may also contain content embedded from, for example YouTube, Vimeo or Flickr, and these sites may set their own cookies. We do not control how these cookies are used and you should check the relevant third party’s website for more information. Session Cookies:

Session Cookies are stored only temporarily during a browsing session and are deleted from the user device when the browser is closed.

Persistent Cookies are saved on your computer for a fixed period and is not deleted when the browser is closed. Persistent cookies are used where we need to know who you are for more than one browsing session.

All recent versions of browsers allow you to control how cookies are stored on your device. You can set your browser to accept or reject all cookies, or only accept certain types of cookies. Please note that some of the cookies necessary to enable you to move about the site, and if you disable them you may not be able to visit certain areas of the site or access certain content. For more information on how to control cookies please visit: www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/

to ensure the website works correctly,
to remember any preferences you may have given the website, and
to collect anonymous data which allows us to see how people arrive at our website and which content is viewed.
Below is a list of the main cookies used by this site and what each is used for:

Cookie Name	Expiration Time	Description
_ga	2 years	Used to distinguish visitors to site
_gid	24 hours	Used to distinguish visitors to site
_gat	10 minutes	Used to throttle request rate
__utmt	10 minutes	Used to throttle request rate.
_ _utma	2 years from set/update	Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
_ _utmb	30 mins from set/update	Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
_ _ utmc	End of browser session	Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit.
_ _utmz	6 months from set/update	Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

Specific Cookies

The following cookies are used specifically on this site;

Cookie Name	Expiration Time	Description
euCookie	6 Months	Records if you have clicked in the Cookie Notification and therefore does not display notification for 6 months.
PHPSESSID	SESSION	The PHPSESSID cookie is native to PHP and enables websites to store serialised state data. On the Action website it is used to establish a user session and to pass state data via a temporary cookie, which is commonly referred to as a session cookie. As the PHPSESSID cookie has no timed expiry, it disappears when the client is closed.
wordpress_test_cookie	SESSION	This is a test cookie, to see if cookies are enabled.

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Cookie	Duration	Description
cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics	11 months	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional	11 months	The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary	11 months	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-others	11 months	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance	11 months	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance".
viewed_cookie_policy	11 months	The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data.