What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone or other device when you access the internet.

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Why are cookies essential to the Young Herts Minds website?
This website, along with many others, uses cookies. Cookies let users navigate around sites and (where appropriate) let us tailor the content to fit the needs of our site's visitors. Without cookies enabled we can't guarantee that the website and your experience of it are as we intended it to be.

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None of the cookies we use collect your personal information and they can’t be used to identify you.

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Types of cookies
The length of time a cookie stays on your device depends on its type. We use two types of cookies on our websites.

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Session (Transient) cookies: these cookies are erased when you close your browser, and do not collect information from your computer. They typically store information in the form of a session identification that does not personally identify the user.

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Persistent (Permanent/Stored) cookies: these cookies are stored on your hard drive until they expire (i.e based on a set expiration date) or until you delete them. These cookies are used to collect identifying information about the user, such as Web surfing behavior or user preferences for a specific site.