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These are the cookies that we use on our main website:
cookies_allowed: this cookie remembers your preference regarding accepting cookies (expressed in the pop-up box that appears on the bottom of the screen), so that once accepted, we will not ask you again about this. This cookie is remembered by your browser for 1 year.
CONCRETE5: this cookie tracks your browser session and is deleted when you close your browser.
_ga, _gid, _gat, AMP_TOKEN, _gac_<property-id>: these cookies collect information for Google Analytics about how visitors use our website, so that we can get statistics on the number of visitors to the site and pages visited. For more information on how Google Analytics uses cookies, please read Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites.
Please note that blocking/deleting these cookies does not disable Google Analytics tracking.
These are the cookies used on our extranet site:
PHPSESSID: this cookie tracks your browser session and is deleted when you close your browser. This cookie is the only vital cookie and the extranet website is the only part of Virus Bulletin's web presence that requires cookies to function.
userCakeUser: this cookie makes sure you are automatically logged in next time you visit the extranet website. It is only activated when a user logs into the extranet website and ticks the 'Remember me' checkbox. Its duration is set to one week.
Last updated: 01 June 2016