Cookies

An explanation of how and why we use cookies

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your electronic device (computer, laptop, tablet, phone) when you visit a website.

Cookies are used by all websites and have several different functions. They:

Allow a website to recognise your device and change the format of the website to suit that device

Allow the site to work properly and help keep it secure

Help you to navigate between pages efficiently by remembering pages you’ve visited, so you can go back to them if you wish

Give information about how the website is used, and use this to improve your experience on the website

Help by remembering information that you've entered so the next time you visit you don’t have to enter it again.

How do N&P use cookies?

We use cookies to:

Improve your experience by making it quicker and easier for you to use the website

Keep the website functional for you

We do not use cookies to:

Track your behaviour or advertise to you

What types of cookies do we use?

Essential Cookies: these cookies allow you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.

We use essential cookies to:

Indicate whether you have support for cookies enabled

Store the language you select for future visits

Direct your requests to the correct place

Store the user’s session and identify them in web applications

Used to track which web server you are using

We do not use any other cookies except essential ones.

How long will cookies stay on my device?

When you visit our website, ‘session cookies’ are placed on your computer for the time you spend on the website and are removed when you close your browser.

Other types of cookies, called, ‘persistent cookies’ remain on your computer for a longer period until they are set to expire (usually after 12 months) or until you use the browser function to clear cookies.

Cookie list

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your electronic device (computer, laptop, tablet, phone) when you visit a website in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and are called first-party cookies. More specifically, we use cookies for the following purposes:

Essential Cookies - Cookies for running the website that can't be switched off.

Name	Purpose	Expiry
COOKIE_SUPPORT	Indicate whether you have support for cookies enabled	364 days
GUEST_LANGUAGE_ID	Stores the language selected by you for future visits	364 days
JSESSIONID	Direct your requests to the correct place	At the end of your browsing session
LFR_SESSION_STATE_20102	Store the user’s session and identify them in web applications	At the end of your browsing session
SERVER_ID	Used to track which web server you are using	At the end of your browsing session