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This cookie tracks the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come from, the pages they have visited, the number of times a visitor has been to our website, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. Lifespan: Persistent 1P_Jar These cookies are used to gather website statistics and track conversion rates Lifespan: 1 month Consent These cookies are used to gather website statistics and track conversion rates Lifespan: 20 years _utmz These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form. including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. This cookie tracks the number of visitors to the site, where a visitor came from, for example which search engine, search keyword or link they used, and the pages they visited. Lifespan: Persistent Drupal.tableDrag. ShowWeight This cookie determines whether a numerical weight is shown when a table is dragged Lifetime: 1 year NID The NID cookie contains a unique ID that Google uses to remember your preferences and other information such as your preferred language, how many search results you wish to have shown per page and whether or not you wish to have Google's SafeSearch filter on. Lifetime: 6 months _cfduid This cookie is associated with sites using CloudFlare and is used to speed up page load times. According to CloudFlare it is used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address of the visitor. It does not contain any user identification information. Lifespan: 1 year _hstc This is the main cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp, current timestamp (this visit) and session number. Lifespan: 2 years _stripe_mid Stripe is used to make credit card payments. Stripe uses a cookie to remember who you are and to enable them to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers. Lifespan: 1 year _ga, _gat, _gid These are Google Analytics cookies which help us understand how visitors are using our website wo we can improve it. These are used across esms.org.uk, twitter.com and hotjar.com Lifespan: Persistent _hjIncludedInSample This is a Hotjar session cookie which lets HotJar know whether a visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels. Lifetime: Persistent ads_prefs, suth_token, csrf_same_site, csrf_same_site_set, dnt, eu_cn, guest_id, personalization_id, remember_checked_on, tfw_exp, twid, kdhas_js These cookies allow us to track the sharing of the contents on Twitter. Twitter set a series of cookies on any page that includes a Twitter feed. 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