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1. Cookies

A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly and are used by most major websites. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you. Click here to find out more about cookies.

2. How we use cookies on our website and what information we collect

This website uses only session cookies. No persistent cookies are used.

Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the Website. We use session cookies:

(i) to help us to authenticate you as a registered user, giving you access to your user profile and certain otherwise inaccessible areas of the Website;

(ii) to track the number of visits to the Website;

(iii) to compile anonymous statistics that allow us to understand how users use our Website such as details of the pages visited per session on the Website and the number of return visits to the Website (we cannot identify you personally in this way); and

(iv) to enable basic personalisation of the Website.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our site if cookies are disabled. Please click here to find out how to disable/enable cookies

thestories.net Cookie Policy
October 2005