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We use cookies to enhance the online experience of our visitors, to better understand how our websites are used and to monitor how our advertisements perform. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited our site before or whether you are a new visitor.
Our cookies do not store financial information or information which is capable of directly identifying you (such as your name or address). You have the right to choose whether to accept these cookies. You can exercise this right by amending or setting the controls on your browser to reflect your cookie preferences. However, you should be aware that if you choose to refuse cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
The “Help” menu in the toolbar of most web browsers will tell you how to change your browser’s cookie settings, including how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable cookies altogether. An online guide is available if you have difficulties trying to change your browser settings.
We have classified our cookies into two broad types – ‘first party cookies’ and ‘third party cookies’:
In addition, cookies may be either ‘session cookies’ or ‘persistent cookies’. Your computer automatically removes session cookies once you close your browser. Persistent cookies will survive on your computer until an expiry date specified in the cookie itself, is reached.
To help you understand how we use cookies, this is a list of the main cookies set across our website and what each is used for:
Persistent Cookies across www.cancercentral.org.uk. These cookies help make sure our images appear correctly on your device.
Session Cookies across www.cancercentral.org.uk. These cookies ensure that you are recognised when you move from page to page within Cancer Central and that any information you have entered is remembered. The session cookie is stored in temporary memory and is not retained after the browser is closed. Session cookies do not collect information from your computer.
Session cookie. Store information about the size of your browser window. Expires within 24 hours.
Session cookie. Lasts between 20 minutes to 1 hour depending on how long you are active on the site, stores information temporarily to aid user experience.
If you go on to a page on our website that contains embedded content, for example YouTube, you may be sent cookies from these websites.
Our website also contains embedded “share” buttons to enable users of the site to easily share articles with their friends through a number of popular networks, for example, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. These sites may set a cookie when you are also logged in to their service.
We do not control the setting of these cookies, so we suggest you check the third party website for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.
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