01What cookies are

A cookie is a small text file that a website places on your device so that the site can recognise your device on a later page or a later visit. Cookies cannot run programmes or deliver viruses to your computer, and a cookie can only be read by a server in the domain that issued it.

02Cookies used in this Newsroom

This Newsroom uses only cookies that are strictly necessary for the site to work. There are two:

• A caching cookie set by our hosting provider. It allows pages to be served quickly and correctly, and it carries no information about you.
• A language cookie, set only when you choose a language from the language selector. It records that choice so the Newsroom opens in the same language on your next visit.

03Cookies this Newsroom does not use

We do not place advertising cookies on this site. We do not use third-party tracking or profiling technologies, interest-based advertising, social media tracking pixels, web beacons or clear gifs, and we do not build advertising profiles from your visit. No cookie set by this Newsroom is used to identify you personally.

04Controlling cookies

You can accept or decline cookies. Most browsers accept them automatically, but you can change your browser settings to decline them or to delete those already stored. Because the cookies used here are strictly necessary, declining them does not prevent you from reading anything published in this Newsroom; it may mean that your language choice is not remembered between visits, and that pages are served more slowly.

Your browser’s help pages explain how to view, manage and delete cookies for the site you are on.

05Changes to this policy

If we begin to use any cookie beyond those described above, we will update this page before that cookie is set, and we will describe what it does and why.

06Questions

Questions about cookies on this Newsroom may be sent to [email protected].