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What are cookies and how do they work?
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What do we use cookies for?
Cookies allow us to improve our site so that we know the number of unique users who visit us and which pages they visit. This allows us to know what content is interesting to our users. With these improvements in mind we use Google Analytics, a statistical tool. The information collected in this process is completely anonymous and serves only a statistical function.

How can you control cookies?
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