Cookies Policy

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site utilises cookies. Cookies are tiny files that are stored by your browser. This page describes what information they gather and how we use it. It also explains the circumstances in which they are used.

Cookies are primarily employed by SCCS (“us” or “we”) to assist in ongoing improvements to the user experience of our website. Cookies help us to distinguish you from other users of this website, but do not enable us to collect personally identifiable information about you, as your IP address is anonymised.

We use the following cookies:

  • 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, ensuring that users are able to find what they are looking for easily.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in this table:

Google Analytics

_ga

This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. Examples of purposes for which a cookie may be used: Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

Expires after 2 years

_gat

Used to limit the collection of analytics data on high traffic websites.

Expires after 1 minute

_gid

This cookie is used to distinguish unique users.

Expires when the browser is closed.

For more information, you may wish to visit the About cookies website, which contains comprehensive information about cookies.