Cookie policy

Find out what cookies are, why we use them and learn how to update your cookie preferences.

What are cookies?
CMC cookies
Other cookies
Cookie preferences
Further reading

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small file, typically of letters and numbers, downloaded on to a device when the user accesses certain websites. Cookies allow a website to recognise a user’s device. For more information see https://www.aboutcookies.org.

We use Javascript, which is a commonly used technology on the internet, to detect and manage these settings. If your browser does not support Javascript you may manage your cookie preferences through your web browser security settings.

How we classify our cookies

Cookies and the technology that uses them vary significantly between websites so it is important that you understand how we classify cookies that we use on our website (the "Website").

CMC cookies

CMC cookies are “first party cookies”, that is to say that these are cookies set by our Website and our sister domain names. These cookies are required for you to access and use the Website and for us to monitor the use of it. We do not share any of your data collected by the cookies with any third party.

CMC cookies do not:

Gather information that may be used to advertise to you on our Website or any other third party websites;
Send you targeted advertisements on any other third party websites;
Provide information to other third party companies such as social networks about your visit to our Website;
Supply advertising agencies and networks with information about you so that they can present you with advertisements whilst visiting other third party websites.

CMC cookies will:

Make the Website look consistent;
Allow us to make sure our services work more effectively by monitoring visits and performance and errors. We achieve this through internal systems and Google Analytics when you visit our Website.

Please note that CMC Cookies are essential for you to use fully utilise our Website to enable us to offer you with our services. If you do not accept these cookies to be used or set your browser settings such that it does not accept CMC Cookies, then you may not be able to access or use some of the Website functionalities, nor will we be able to provide you with our services.

Other cookies

Other cookies are third party cookies presented by companies with whom we work as part of our marketing initiatives. The third party cookies that we use are listed below and they provide information to the third party about your visit to our Website.

Cookie name	Purpose
utm	The Google cookie allows us to track user activity and improve website experience
googleadservices.com	The Google Conversion Tracking cookie allows us to track and improve your application process.
doubleclick.net	DoubleClick uses cookies to improve advertising. Some common applications are to target advertising based on what’s relevant to a user, to improve reporting on campaign performance and to avoid showing ads that the user has already seen.
atuvc	The Addthis cookie allows you to share site content on social media sites
Adform.net	The Adform cookie records browsing data in order to serve you relevant advertising on third-party networks.
adnxs.com	The AppNexus cookie is used by partnering 3rd parties to track users on our site for advertising purposes
CrazyEgg	The Crazy Egg cookie is used to obtain information regarding how visitors to their websites are interacting with their web pages.
Googleapis.com	The Google Web Search API lets us put Google Search on the web pages
Optimove.net	The Optimove cookie allows us to track user activity and improve website experience
TradeDoubler.com	The TradeDoubler cookie records browsing data in order to serve relevant advertising on third-party networks
Twitter.com	Twitter uses cookies to deliver, measure, and improve its services

Most of these ‘other cookies’ are used to measure the effectiveness and performance of our pay per click advertising and display banners and on third party websites. Whilst they do collect your data, we have endeavoured to ensure that the information they collect is anonymised.

Other cookies will:

Measure the effectiveness of our advertising initiatives
Provide information to our partners about your visit to their Website
Gather information that may be used to advertise to you on other third party websites
Send targeted advertisements to you on third party websites

We do not guarantee that the lists of ‘CMC cookies’ and ‘Other cookies’ set out above are up-to-date but we will use our reasonable endeavours to notify you of any changes.

Cookie preferences

We use cookies to detect and store your cookie preferences. However if you remove this cookie when you clear your cookie cache, we will be required to ask you to update your preferences again. We will also periodically ask you to reconfirm your cookie preferences with us. Cookies are set at a device level. This means we will ask you to set your preferences if you visit our Website from a different device.

Cookie policy

What are cookies?

CMC cookies

Other cookies

Cookie preferences

Further reading