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What are cookies?

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What cookies do we use?

We only use two types of cookies on our website: necessary cookies and analytics cookies.

Necessary cookies help the website to work. They are also how the website remembers what cookies you have opted out of. Analytics cookies help us to understand how people are using the website, so that we can keep improving it.

The tables below list the cookies we use.

Necessary cookies

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Analytics cookies

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Third-party cookies

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Clearing or managing cookies in your browser

The following links explain how to manage, block or delete cookies in the most popular browsers. The links below will open in a new tab or window.

Google Chrome (for both Desktop and Android on mobile)

Apple Safari (desktop)

Mozilla Firefox (desktop)

Apple iOS (iPhone)

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit this Google Tools page.

Page updated: April 2024

 

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