1. Analytics cookies

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These monitor how visitors move around the Website and how they reached it. This is used so that we can see total (not individual) figures on which types of content users enjoy most, for instance.

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You can opt out of these by following the links below:

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Google:

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https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

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2. Our own ad serving and management cookies

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We sell space on some of our websites to advertisers, they fund the ongoing management of this site to ensure you continue to receive high quality information.

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To facilitate this, we use several services to help us and advertisers understand what adverts you will find relevant. These cookies store information about the computer – they don’t hold personal information about you (such as name, telephone), but they might hold a record of what other websites you’ve previously.

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These are the services we use and how you can control those cookies. Please note that turning off advertising cookies won’t mean that you are not served any advertising merely that it will not be aimed at your specific interests.

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Google Adsense (ad partner):

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https://support.google.com/adsense/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&utm_medium=link&gsessionid=DyXLmLB1J1MxXckh6tX6AQ&utm_campaign=ww-ww-et-asfe_&utm_source=aso&answer=48182

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LinkedIn:

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https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

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Twitter:

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https://twitter.com/en/privacy

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Facebook:

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https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

 

3. Third-party service cookies

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Social sharing, video and other services we offer are run by other companies. These companies may drop cookies on your computer when you use them on our site or if you are already logged in to them.

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Here is a list of places where you can find out more about specific services that we may use and their use of cookies:

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Facebook:

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http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info-on-other

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Twitter:

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https://twitter.com/privacy

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YouTube:

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http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/faq/#toc-cookies

 

4. Other ad management cookies

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Advertisements on the Website are provided by other organisations. Our advertising partners will serve advertisements that they believe are most likely to be of interest to you, based on information about your visit to the Website and other websites. In order to do this, our advertising partner may need to place a cookie on your computer. These cookies hold information about the computer – they don’t hold personal information about you (ie it’s not linked to you as an individual).

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For more information about this type of online behavioural advertising, about cookies, and about how to turn this feature off, please visit http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/

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Please note that turning off advertising cookies won’t mean that you are not served any advertising merely that it will not be tailored to your interests.

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5. Site management cookies

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These are used to maintain your identity or session on the Website. For instance, where our websites run on more than one server, we use a cookie to ensure that you are sent information by one specific server (otherwise you may log in or out unexpectedly). We may use similar cookies when you vote in opinion polls to ensure that you can only vote once, and to ensure that you can use our commenting functionality when not logged in (to ensure you don’t see comments you’ve reported as abusive, for instance, or don’t vote comments up/down more than once).

These cookies cannot be turned off individually but you could change your browser setting to refuse all cookies (see above) if you do not wish to accept them.