A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Here are all the cookies used by the site.
ASP.NET_SessionId & .ASPXANONYMOUS
This cookie is essential for the website to function properly. It lasts only for the length of time you are viewing the website and improves your experience by letting the site remember things as you move between pages. For example, if you are logged into the site on one page, this fact is held in your session and you continue to be logged in when you view a different page.
psConfirmCookies
This cookie allows us to store the fact that you have previously approved the use of cookies for our website.
Google Analytics
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This service monitors how many people are using our website and which pages are being viewed. This information is stored anonymously and the cookies help with knowing when the same person returns to view the site again later. Reports compiled from this information helps us improve our site and services.
language
This cookie stores the browser's default language setting.
Add This
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This cookie is created and read by the AddThis social sharing site. JavaScript on the client side in order to make sure the user sees the updated count if they share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. No data from that cookie is sent back to AddThis and removing it when disabling cookies would cause unexpected behavior for users.
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