2.1. A cookie (and other technologies such as pixels and beacons) is a small data file that is placed on your browser or the hardware of your computer or other device to allow a website to recognise you as a user when you return to the website, either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (a ‘persistent cookie’). Other similar files work in the same way and we use the word ‘cookie’ in this Cookies Policy to refer to all files that collect information in this way.
2.2. Cookies can be “First Party” (which are set by us) or “Third Party” (placed on your device by another company when you use our website), for example Google Analytics and Facebook. Third party cookies may be placed on your device by someone providing a service to us (for example, we use Google Analytics to help us understand how our website is being used). Facebook may use cookies, web beacons and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our website and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. We cannot access third party cookies. Likewise, third-party providers cannot access the data in the cookies we use on our website.