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1. About cookies on any Newsquest Media Group Limited’s (Newsquest) website

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that (with your consent) we place on your computer.

We use cookies to allow us to identify you from other users visiting our website, so that we can improve your experience and the way our website works when you are browsing through it. We also use “analytical” cookies which allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how you and others move around our website. Cookies make it easy for you to find what you are looking for. Blocking or restricting cookies may affect the full function of our website.

Types of cookies:

Session
This type only lasts for the duration you are on the website e.g. nqdm (see list below).

Persistent
This type of cookie stays on your computer and remembers your settings the next time you come back e.g. abVariant (see list below).

First Party
These cookies are cookies set by our websites in your browser’s address bar. This includes all the cookies in section 2. below.

Third Party
Third-party cookies are cookies from other websites. See section 3. below.

You can manage or block the cookies set by Newsquest, or indeed any other website should you want to do so. You can do this through your browser settings using the Help function within your browser. Even if you have consented to cookies you can withdraw your initial consent in the same way at any time.

Otherwise you can visit www.aboutcookies.org for comprehensive information on how to manage or block cookies on a variety of browsers. If you want to manage or block cookies on the browser of your mobile phone you may need to refer to the manual of your handset.

Please be aware that restricting or blocking cookies may impact on the functionality of our website and you may not get the experience intended.

Newsquest uses a number of service providers who also set cookies on newsquest.co.uk on Newsquest’s behalf but also to offer their products/services to you. If you would like more information about the cookies used by third parties, as well as information on how to opt-out, please go to section 3.

Further useful information to inform your choices is supplied by the Internet Advertising Bureau via their AdChoices programme.

2. List of the Newsquest Media Group Limited’s website cookies
This is a list of the main cookies set by the Newsquest Media Group Limited website and what each is used for.

Cookie name: PHPSESSID
Purpose: Used for tracking readers from one page to the next

3. Third Party Cookies
We use a number of service providers who may set cookies on their respective websites in order to offer you the services that they are providing.

We may also embed photos and video content from websites like YouTube. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from other websites like YouTube, you may be presented with cookies from that website. You should check the relevant third party website for more information about those cookies.

If you would like more information about the cookies used by third parties, as well as information on how to opt-out, please see their individual privacy policies listed below.

Third party: Omniture
Purpose: Omniture provides anonymised statistical information to Newsquest. They process IP addresses and information from other cookies so Newsquest knows, for example, how many page views it has, the number of users, what browsers users are using and in which country, city or region users are located.
How to reject or delete this cookie: http://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html