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How this site uses Cookies

This website uses cookies (small pieces of data stored in your browser cache) so that the web site remembers certain settings that you have selected; it is also so that it can collect website usage data through Google Analytics.

Why are you telling me this?
An EU Directive that takes effect in the UK from 26th May 2012 obliges us to give you information on all the cookies that are being used on the site.

Why do people worry that cookies are a threat to their privacy?
Some people are suspicious of cookies because when a web site shows adverts directly from a third party web site (such as an
advertising company like  Doubleclick, owned by Google) that third party site  can place their own cookie  in your browser to assign a unique identifying number to you (although you are  still anonymous to the website). Then when you visit another web site, even days  later, that also has adverts on it from the same third party site they can get  their cookie back again and look up their record of what adverts you clicked on  in the past so it can show more relevant adverts that you may be interested in.  This can be unnerving because it makes you feel that you are being tracked when  really it is just trying to be more efficient about what adverts are shown to  you.

Even sites that try to help you by saving settings in cookies so that the  site looks the  same when you revisit can make people feel that they are being  watched.

The Cookies used on this site.

Performance Cookies
We use the Google Analytics services to help us calculate the number of  visitors to the website and to  analyse how the site is accessed. It helps us see  what articles are the most  popular, what search engine keywords are used to find  the pages, helps us optimise the site and also enables us to detect if there are  any broken links.  It is estimated that about 28% of websites use Google  Analytics. This services  sets four cookies as follows:
__utma (Expires: 2  years)
__utmb (Expires: 30 minutes)
__utmc  (Expires: when user exits   browser)
__utmz  (Expires: 6  months)

You can find detailed information about how Google uses these cookies from:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies

 Further web  analytics are provided by quantserve.com for which the following  cookie is created.
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Cookies created by Third Parties Domain: quantserve.com
Quantserve who also provide web analytics create their own cookie.
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More Information about Cookies
You can find out more general information about cookies and how to manage them on the UK Government site: www.direct.gov.uk/managingcookies

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