Cookies
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Cookies used on this website include:
1. Third-party cookies. This refers to embedded content from websites such as Youtube.
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Note that you can switch off cookies by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Information on how to do so, and on how to delete cookies from your browser, can be found here. However, keep in mind that doing so may limit the functionality of this and other websites insofar as using cookies is standard practice today. If you are concerned about spyware, you may install an anti-spyware software that achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.