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NIHR Evidence uses traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. Cookies are small information files placed on your device, which are used to improve services for you.

Cookies help us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to user needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to see which pages you find useful and which you do not. Cookies only allow us to see aggregated, anonymous data across all website visitors; we don’t have access to any of your personal data.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Declining cookies may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

The cookies we use

Necessary cookies

There are cookies which we need to use so our website works properly.

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Purpose: to provide load balancing functionality

Expires: One week


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Provider: Amazon Application Load Balancer

Purpose: to provide load balancing functionality

Expires: One week


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Provider: WordPress

Purpose: to provide protection against hackers, store account details

Expires: 15 days


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Provider: WordPress

Purpose: to store logged in users

Expires: Session


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Provider: WordPress

Purpose: to store user preferences

Expires: persistent


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Provider: WordPress

Purpose: to store user preferences

Expires: 1 year


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Provider: GDPR Cookie Consent plugin

Purpose: is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data

Expires: 11 months


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Purpose: this cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Necessary”

Expires: 11 months


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Analytics cookies

Analytics cookies allow us to monitor how you use our website, and if you can find what you’re looking for. We make improvements based on the insight gathered from analytics cookies. There is no personally identifiable information contained within these cookies.

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Provider: Google

Purpose: This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as an identifier.

Expires: 2 years


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Provider: Google

Purpose: This cookie stores and updates a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews.

Expires: 1 day

Miscellaneous cookies

These cookies are pending investigation:

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