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Cookies can’t harm your computer and we don’t store any personally identifiable information about you on any of our cookies.
We use cookies for two main reasons. First, we use them to enable us to give you a better experience i.e. to remember when you’ve logged in, and to remember not to show you a message you’ve already seen, for instance (the cookie message at the top of the page is a good example of this). Because of this, turning cookies off for our website may affect your experience negatively. The other use is to see how you use our website. This way, we can see which pages you visit most often, which pages are broken and various other bits of information.
No cookies contains any of your personal information; it’s totally anonymous.
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Used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from.
Allows the service to choose the right instance the user was using to serve subsequent requests made by that user.
It prevents from anybody to forge a link and have it activated by a powered user.
This cookie keeps you logged into the login sections of our website so that you do not need to re-enter your login details more than once during your visit to the site. It expires when your browser closes.
A cookie which is used to identify the users session on the server. The session being an area on the server which can be used to store data in between http requests.
Keeps track of users choice for the Cookie Consent message.
Call tracking for marketing performance (https://www.mediahawk.co.uk/).
Absolutely. It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website. However, this will likely affect your website experience; for instance we cannot tell if you are signed in without using cookies.
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