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What are cookies?

We use cookies on this website. A cookie is a small piece of text stored on your computer, phone or whatever you use to surf the Internet. Cookies have many uses, but fundamentally they are used to store information about you on your computer.

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We do not use cookies on this website for the collection of personal data; however temporary cookies are used by the website statistics package to log you into the system. If you have any queries about this please contact the council’s Website Administrator for help and advice. This policy applies to this website but not to sites to which we provide links.

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