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Cookies are files saved on your mobile phone, tablet or computer when you visit a website. They are small text files that are placed on your devices and are widely used in order to make websites work properly or more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. We use cookies to collect and store information about how you use our website, such as the pages you visit. This page outlines where cookies are used across our site.

 

Essential cookies

We utilise essential cookies on this site that are necessary for core functionality, such as security and maintenance.

 

Cookie name Purpose Default expiration time
JANEWAYSESSID
  • Maintenance of login sessions
  • Prevention of cross site request forgery
  • Tracking views and downloads of our articles using the COUNTER method (https://www.projectcounter.org/)
 

 


Analytics cookies (optional)

Cookie name Purpose Default expiration time
_ga Used to distinguish users. 2 years
_ga_<container-id> Used to persist session state. 2 years

 


Video player cookies

Our site contains some video content embedded from providers such as YouTube who may set their own cookies when you play these videos and use their sites.

 

Source Purpose Default expiration time
Embedded videos from YouTube

We embed videos from our official YouTube channel. You can read about embedding YouTube videos on their information page here.

If you visit a page on our site that contains a YouTube video and you are logged in to a YouTube or Google account, Google may use cookies for security purposes, remember your preferences and receive information about the videos you watch for analytics and advertising purposes cookies and collect data linked to your Google account. For more information, see Google's Privacy Policy for more information.

Between 6 months and 13 months.

 


Updating and changing your cookie settings

You can update and change your cookie settings at any time by clicking on the link here (also found in the footer of our site).

Alternatively, most web browsers commonly used allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.