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This website uses a cookie to record whether a user’s browser is enabled to use JavaScript, a common website tool for providing interactivity such as the animation of page elements by fading them in and out. The cookie is a simple yes/no flag, and contains no personal data.
This website also uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a tool that allows the behaviour of users on a website to be analysed, to help a website owner to provide the best user experience. Google Analytics generates cookies that identify whether you’ve visited the website before, which pages you visit etc. These cookies cannot be used to identify individuals; they are used for statistical purposes only and the data never shows any confidential information. The data itself is only visible to the website owner, the website provider Cyber Duck and the relevant team at Google.
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