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- when you were last on the site so that we can highlight the posts made since your last visit

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Every time a user visits our website, web analytics software generates an anonymous analytics cookie.

These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies, and if you don't, we generate new ones. No third party cookies are created by our web analytics software.

This allows us to track how many individual unique users we have, and how often they visit the site. It also allows us to understand how easy the website is to use and helps us improve. We publish the overall statistics we gather to help advertisers understand the benefits of advertising on the site. The revenue from advertising helps us pay for the cost of providing the website resources to our members.

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Our servers use these cookies to work out which account you are signed in with, and if you are allowed access to a particular service. It also allows us to associate any comments you post with your username.

If you have not selected 'Remember me next time?' your cookies are not saved when you close your browser or shut down your computer.

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On some pages of the Nursing Forum, third parties may also set their own anonymous cookies, for the purposes of tracking the success of their application, or customising the application for you. Because of how cookies work, Nursing Forum cannot access these cookies, nor can the third parties access the data in cookies used by Nursing Forum.

For example, when you see a link to facebook, twitter or a map on the page, the social network that has created the button or the provider of the map (currently google) may save a cookie based on your interaction with the button or map.