Use of Cookies
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This website uses cookies to monitor browsing preferences. If you do allow cookies to be used, the following personal information may be stored by us for use by third parties:
Session cookies (PHPSESSID,RT_SESS) - These are cookies used to identify your current browser session, so once logged in you do not have to log in every time you navigate to a new page.
Functionality (_tmconslide, web_lang, _lang, _tmcok, calsummary, showcharts, sc_r, sc_o) - These cookies are for simple functions, such as remembering when you selected a language, when you chose to hide a panel or even when you choose to accept cookies.
Google Analytics (__utma, __utmc, __utmz, __utmx, __utmxx) - The cookies here are used by the Google Analytics application. This allows us to monitor website usage, find what pages are popular on our website, where to make improvements amongst other things. The ICO regard these as "minimally intrusive".
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