Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We may use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

• Analytical or performance cookies. These 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, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

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

Cookie Details	Purpose	Expiry
STRIPE MID (strictly necessary cookie for paying members)	Allows us and our payment processor to interact with respect to the payment status of the accounts of our paying members	This cookie expires after one year.
STRIPE SID (strictly necessary cookie for paying members)	Allows us and our payment processor to interact with respect to the payment status of the accounts of our paying members.	This cookie expires after one day.
SESSION ID (functionality cookie) _dmdb_session	This cookie enables us to recognize and remember members’ login information during each unique session.	This cookie expires when the user terminates its session.
AHOY (analytics cookie)	This cookie enables us to estimate our audience size, usage patterns and the general geographic location of our users.	The cookie expires after one year.
GA (analytics cookie)	This cookie enables us to estimate our audience size, usage patterns and the general geographic location of our users.	The cookie expires after two years.