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What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites store on your computer to help distinguish you from other users. We use cookies to help us provide you with a better experience when you browse our website and help us to improve our site through monitoring visitor interest and behaviour anonymously.

There are a few different types of cookies:

Persistent cookies are used to retain user preferences, relating to a particular website you visit. This can be things like whether you want to be logged in automatically when you visit the website, or whether you've already been asked to take part in a survey for example. Persistent cookies exist on your machine for a pre-set length of time.
Session cookies are used to retain information during a particular time you've used a website; this can be things like storing the contents of your shopping basket on an e-commerce site. They are deleted as soon as you close your browser.
Third-party cookies are used by advertisers and social networks to learn about your browsing habits to help deliver relevant advertising and content to you. This, for example means you could be more likely to see adverts for shops you already shop at.

What cookies do we use on our site?

On Patient we use Persistent and Session cookies. Due to the advertising we use to support the site you may also receive Third-party cookies while using Patient.

Below is a list of cookies used by Patient:

Name	Use	Explanation
__utm, __utmb, __utmz, __utmc, ai_session, ai_user	Analytics	This set of cookies are used by our analytics software to monitor which pages are visited and allow us to make improvements to the website by analysing visitors interest and behaviour. All data collected is anonymous.
__gads, _ybotv, _dm_bid, OX_plg, _dm_sync, OX_sd, __ybotu	Advertising	These cookies are used by Google Adsense and other advertisers to identify and target our site for delivering relevant advertising.
PatientAuth, PatientAuthSession	Site functionality	These cookies keeps you logged in. If you choose to stay logged in when you sign into Patient, this cookie becomes persistent and is stored on your computer for 7 days, being renewed everytime you revisit.
p_qu	Site functionality	This cookie is used by us to collect anonymous data to allow us to understand and profile our visitors so that we can make improvements to the website.
p_cpa	Site functionality	This cookie is used to remember that you've dismissed the prompt explaining that our website uses cookies.

Third party cookies

Some third party cookies may be set on your computer by social media websites and advertising networks. These are used to better understand your interests so that they can market more relevant content to you at another time, in much the same way a supermarket loyalty card analyses your shopping bill and will market relevant discount offers to you based on the products you bought. This is called Behavioural Advertising.

If you would like more information about behavioural advertising and how it affects your privacy, please take a look at www.youronlinechoices.com/uk and optout.networkadvertising.org.

Below is a list of the third party cookies on Patient.Info:

Advertising

Acuity Ads
Adap.tv
AddThis
Adform
AdGear
Adify
Adition
Adobe Audience Manager
Admixer
Adroll
Advertising.com
Amazon Associates
Appnexus
Beeswax
BidSwitch
Bidtellect
Captify
Connatix
Connexity
Crimtan
Criteo
DataXu
Delta Projects
Dotomi
Doubleclick
DoubleClick Bid Manager
DoubleClick Floodlight
DoubleVerify
Drawbridge
Dstillery
EQWorks
exelate
EyeReturn Marketing
Eyeview
Facebook Custom Audience
Google Ads Measurement
Google Adsense
Google Pingback
Google Publisher Tags
Google Safeframe
gumgum
Improve digital
Index Exchange
Integral Ad Science
Just Premium
Lotame
Magnetic
Media.net
MediaMath
Moat
MySpace
Nativo
Netmining
OnAudience
OpenX
OwnerIQ
Platform161
Powerlinks
PubMatic
PulsePoint
Quantcast
RadiumOne
Rhythmone Beacon
Rocket Fuel
Rubicon
ScoreCard Research Beacon
Semasio
Sharethrough
Simpli.fi
SiteScout
Sizmek
SpotXchange
StickyAds
Taboola
Tapad
TradeDesk
Tribal Fusion
TripleLift
Turn Inc.
Videology
Vidible
Yahoo Ad Manager Plus
Yieldbot
YieldMo
Zypmedia

Essential

Google Tag Manager

Site Analytics

Google Analytics
Azure Application Insights
Quantcount
GA Audiences
lotec

Social Media

Facebook Connect

Changing your settings

We have provided links below to instructions for all the major browsers on how to change your cookie settings.

Please note: We do not recommend disabling cookies entirely as this will prevent most websites and services (such as webmail and social media sites) from working.

Last revised 25th May 2018