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What are cookies?

A cookie is a small amount of data sent to your computer or mobile phone from a website.  This means the website can recognise your device (your computer or mobile phone) if you return to the same site.  A cookie often includes a unique identifier, which is a randomly generated number.  This is stored on your device’s hard drive.  Many cookies are automatically deleted after you finish using the website.

Cookies make your experience of using websites faster and easier. They allow websites to create a customised view of pages to which you navigate. For example, they are commonly used to authenticate or identify registered users of a website without requiring them to sign in each time they access it. Cookies may come with or without an expiry date. Cookies without an expiry date exist until the browser is closed, while cookies with an expiry date may be stored by the device until the expiry date passes. You can restrict or block cookies but this may limit your use of some functionality.

Cookies cannot be used to identify you personally.

Cookies are not programs and do not collect information from your device.

How to manage your cookies

Cookies are sent to your browser by a website and then stored in the cookies directory of your device.

To find out how to allow, block, delete and manage the cookies on all standard web browsers, go to www.aboutcookies.org and select the browser and version you are using. You’ll also find information about how to delete cookies from your computer.

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