Cookies on this site
Learn about how we use cookies on this site, and your options
Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the site or a thirdparty to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you.
When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser. We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the Service, to provide analytics, to store your preferences, to enable advertisements delivery, including behavioral advertising. We use both session and persistent cookies on the Service and we use different types of cookies to run the Service:
Essential cookies. We may use essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.
- cookieconsent: This cookie simply tells us that you have accepted/read our cookie policy in order to remove the cookie bar shown at the top of the page
- dg_expiration: Determines the length of the session for a logged in user. There are two options for this cookie: if the user has selectedremember me then it is set to 1 year, and if not then it’s set to the datetime that the user logged in. Used only for logged in members. (Essential)
- dg_last_activity: Every time the state is updated (the page reloaded) the last activity is set to the current date/time. Used to determine expiry. This is essential for logged in users, but not for guests - it is set for both. (Essential)
- dg_last_visit: Sets the date/time that the user last visited the site, and is set for both guests and logged in users. If not set, is automatically set to 10 years ago. Affects guests and logged in users. (Non-essential)
- dg_remember: Used as a member when you login to remember you for future visits. (Non-essential)
- dg_sessionid: A uniquely generated ID that corresponds to the
session_idcolumn in theexp_sessiontable. Used when cookie and session are set as the session type. Used only for logged in members. (Essential) - dg_tracker: Tracks the last 5 pages viewed by the user, and is used primarily for redirection after logging in etc. Affects guests and logged in users. (Non-essential)
Third party cookies.
These cookies are placed by third party services that we are using on our site, whilst these cookies are non essential they help us to identify usage and interactions with the website.
- _ga: Google Universal Analytics, this is a randomly generated number that allows us to distinguish you on our site, this will expire after 2 years.
- _gat: Google Universal Analytics, this cookie is used to store information on throttling the request rate that Google collects data at, this will expire after 10 minutes.
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