Cookie Policy
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What is a cookie?
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What cookies do we use?
Google Analytics Cookies
Our website uses Google Analytics Cookies. These cookies allow us to improve our site by collecting information about how visitors use our site, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, where visitors have come from and if they get error messages from web pages. Information collected by the Google Analytics cookies will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States of America in accordance with its privacy practices. We use the aggregated statistical information provided by Google Analytics to help us improve our site.
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| _utmb | Establishes and continues a user session with the site. | 30 minutes |
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