What are cookies?                                                                                                                       

Cookies are harmless text files that web servers can store on your computer's hard drive, smart phone or other device when you visit a website. They allow the server to recognise you when you revisit. There are two main types:

• Transient (or per-session) cookies. These only exist for the duration of your site visit and are deleted on exit. They recognise you as you move between pages
• Persistent (or permanent) cookies - These are cookies, which remain on your device after you have visited our website. eg if you use check the 'remember my details’ option. Persistent cookies help us identify you as a unique visitor; they do not contain information that could be used to identify you to another person

At Paragon, we use both types of cookie.

Additionally, cookies can be first or third-party cookies. First-party cookies are owned and created by the website you're viewing. Third-party cookies are owned and created by an independent company, usually a company providing a service to the owners of the website.

What we use cookies for

Our sites use cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a better online experience.

There are two types of cookies that we use:

• Tracking (transient) cookies – These help us with statistics for who is using / visiting our sites
• Login (persistent) cookies – These are required for users that need to log in to services provided by the site

Whilst you are under no obligation to accept our cookies, certain logging features on our websites may not work efficiently if you choose to delete them. This may result in a loss of convenience.

Changing your cookie settings

To enable or disable cookies, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the 'Help', 'Tools' or 'Edit' facility).

Secure online services

Any secure online services you subscribe to may use cookies to enable information about you and your preferences to be stored and to prevent unauthorised access to your services and information.

What cookies are used on this website?

The table below explains the cookies we use and why:

Source	Cookie Name	Purpose	Comments
Google Analytics	__utma __utmb __utmv __utmz _utmc	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 visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.	Click here for an overview of privacy at Google
Iceberg site cookie acceptance	clientcredit_cookiesAccepted	This cookie is used to record if a user has accepted the use of cookies on the Iceberg website. This cookie will expire after 12 months.	Once you accept the use of cookies from the Iceberg website the dialogue box about the use of cookies will not be prompted to you again, if using the same browser.
Content Management System cookie	exp_last_activity exp_last_visit exp_perpage exp_tracker exp_sessionid exp_expiration exp_flash PHPSESSID exp_csrf_token	These cookies are set by our content management system upon arrival to our site. They are not used by Iceberg for any specific purpose.	Some of these cookies are deleted when a user closes their browser, the others have a variable expiry date. Without these cookies some features of the website may not function correctly.

 

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.