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We use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our websites and services. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you visit our websites or use our services and also allows us to improve our websites and services. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them.
Cookies are small text files that websites store on your computer to help distinguish you from other users. We use cookies to help us provide you with a better experience when you browse our website and help us to improve our site through monitoring visitor interest and behaviour anonymously.
There are a few different types of cookies:
- Persistent cookies are used to retain user preferences, relating to a particular website you visit. This can be things like whether you want to be logged in automatically when you visit the website, or whether you've already been asked to take part in a survey for example. Persistent cookies exist on your machine for a pre-set length of time.
- Session cookies are used to retain information during a particular time you've used a website; this can be things like storing the contents of your shopping basket on an e-commerce site. They are deleted as soon as you close your browser.
- Third-party cookies are used by advertisers and social networks to learn about your browsing habits to help deliver relevant advertising and content to you. This, for example means you could be more likely to see adverts for shops you already shop at.
What cookies do we use on our site?
On our Website we use Persistent and Session cookies. Due to the social media buttons you'll find on our articles and the advertising we use to support the site, you may also receive Third-party cookies while using the Website.
You may refuse to accept cookies by unchecking the tick box.
Our Website does not store any personal identifiable or sensitive information in its cookie such as names, addresses, email addresses or telephone numbers.
The cookies we use
Which cookies do we use and why?
| Cookie Name | Purpose |
|---|---|
| __utm(a,b,c,v,z) | These cookies enable the function of Google Analytics. This software helps us to analyse visitor information such as browser usage, routes through the Website, responses to marketing activities and page popularity. This information helps us to improve the Website and your browsing experience. The data stored by these cookies can be seen only by our relevant teams and never disclosed to any third party. |
| EMISCOOKIEPOPUP | This cookie is stored to record whether the visitor has consented to allow us to store a cookie on their machine when they use the common room directly from their EMIS clinical system. |
| EMISONLINE | The purpose of this cookie is to provide a common room experience tailored to the user's EMIS CDB number. No personal identifiable information is stored within this cookie. Without this cookie the common room section of the Website would not work. |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | This is a simple cookie used to identify your unique visit to the Website. It is typically used to maintain the integrity of your session while transacting information (such as posting forms, downloading files), making sure that a request/data came from you and was not hijacked or corrupted. This information is discarded when the browser is closed or the session times out. |
| ASPXANONYMOUS | This is a cookie that contains an anonymous (randomly generated) ID for a visitor. |
| wp36382 | This cookie is associated with the Act-On marketing automation platform. This software allows us to understand user behaviour and link activity across the site to marketing campaigns. This information allows us to improve the quality of the content we provide and associate actions completed on site with campaigns. |
| _lo: | This cookie is associated Lucky Orange which is used to identify and record visitor journeys, and provide anonymous information including who the visitor's referrer, if any. |
Third party cookies
Some third party cookies may be set on your computer by social media websites and advertising networks. These are used to better understand your interests so that they can market more relevant content to you at another time, in much the same way a supermarket loyalty card analyses your shopping bill and will market relevant discount offers to you based on the products you bought. This is called Behavioural Advertising.
If you would like more information about behavioural advertising and how it affects your privacy, please take a look at www.youronlinechoices.com/uk. You can choose to opt-in or out of a variety of different ad networks on this page; www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices or on this page; www.aboutads.info/choices.
Changing privacy and cookies in your browser
How do I change the privacy setting of my browser?
| Browser | Instructions |
|---|---|
| Internet Explorer | Choose "Tools" and then "Internet Options". Click the "Privacy" tab. Move the slider to choose your preferred settings. For more specialised cookie settings click on "Advanced", check the "Override cookie handling" button and modify the settings to suit your requirements. |
| Google Chrome | Click on the "Tools" menu and select "Options". Click the "Under the Bonnet" tab and locate the "Privacy" section, and choose the "Content settings" button. Click the "Cookie settings" tab and choose your preferred settings. Google Chrome allows all cookies by default, but you can restrict the behaviour of first-party and third-party cookies or even block them completely. Click on the Close button when you've finished. |
| Mozilla Firefox | Click on "Tools", then "Options" (or "Edit" | "Preferences" on Linux). Select "Privacy", select "Cookies". Choose your preferred settings (You can configure which sites are allowed to set cookies, how long to keep them for, and view and manage your existing cookies.). |
| Safari | From the "Home" screen choose "Settings" then "Safari". To set whether Safari accepts cookies, select "Accept Cookies" and choose "Never", "From visited", or "Always". |
| Opera | Go to "Tools" in the main menu. Go to "Preferences" at the bottom of the "File" menu (or press Alt+P to access them directly). Click "Privacy" and select one of the available options. In addition to choosing different settings for first-party ("normal") and third-party cookies, you may edit cookie settings on a domain/server basis or even edit individual cookies by clicking the "Manage cookies" button. |