Cookies

We use a first-party cookie to check whether you have opted in or opted out of cookie consent for non-essential cookies.

If you choose to opt in, we will launch tools called Google Analytics and Visual Website Optimiser, which help us analyse website traffic and user behaviour, and improve the performance of our website. These tools set cookies.

We set a cookie named torchbox-cookie to record whether you have chosen to opt in or opt out of our non-essential cookies. By storing this cookie you avoid having to see the prompt on every page.

We set a cookie named torchbox-mode to remember your preference for light or dark mode on the site. This is a functional cookie that cannot be opted out from, although if you do not set a preference it won't be set, and the site will load by default in dark mode (because this emits less carbon).

The following cookies are associated with Google Analytics:

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VWO is used to help us test and improve our website. VWO uses cookies in support of A/B testing and personalisation. The cookies identify one visitor from another using an anonymous user id, track the variation of a page a visitor views, and help serve the same variation to the visitor consistently, track their goals, and determine whether they are part of a campaign, and so on.

Find further information, and a full list of cookies set by VWO, on their website.

We embed videos from YouTube on our site, and we make use of the lite youtube embed package so they don't set cookies. However, as YouTube carries out other tracking activity, we ask users to accept the YouTube terms and conditions before viewing a video.

To find out more about cookies and how you can manage them, visit:

https://www.aboutcookies.org/

You can also find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

• Cookie settings in Chrome
• Cookies settings in Safari web and iOS
• Cookie settings in Firefox
• Cookie settings in Microsoft Edge

You can delete any cookies we have set, including any that may have been set when opt-in/opt-out controls for this site were not available and/or are no longer used but have not yet expired.