What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file stored on your computer when you visit certain web pages. A cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets web site operators know when you visit a particular site.

Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

Cookies do not contain personally identifiable information such as your home address, telephone number or credit card details.

You may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to do this on your mobile phone browser please refer to your handset manual.

The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Cookie

Name

Purpose

More information
Google Analytics _utma
_utmb
_utmc
_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 vistors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Click here for an overview of privacy at Google
WordPress Cookie wp-settings-1
wp-settings-time-1		 These cookies are used by the content management system to see if the admin person is logged in into the system. These cookies are deleted when a user closes their browser. The supplier of our content management system (the software we use to update our website) is working to remove this cookie from their product.
WordPress
Cookie		 PHPSESSID This cookie is set by our content management system on a small number of browsers, upon arrival to the Dembridge site. It is not used by Dembridge for any purpose. This cookie is deleted when a user closes their browser. The supplier of our content management system (the software we use to update our website) is working to remove this cookie from their product.
Twitter cookies These cookies are set by Twitter, upon arrival to the Dembridge site. These cookies are used by Twitter to see if a user is logged in. These cookie are deleted after 1 month.
Twitter cookies datr
lu		 These cookies are set by Twitter, upon arrival to the Dembridge site. These cookies are deleted after 2 years.
LinkedIn
cookies		 __uset
__utma
__utmb
__utmz
__uset		 These cookies are set by LinkedIn, upon arrival to the Dembridge site. These cookies are deleted when a user closes their browser.
LinkedIn
cookies		 __stid
__utmz		 These cookies are set by LinkedIn, upon arrival to the Dembridge site. These cookies are deleted after 10 months.