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In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping baskets, and provide anonymous tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better and our communication to you more relevant.

The cookies we use can be categorised according to those identified by the ICC UK Cookie guide, as follows:

Category 1: Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.

We use these on our site to handle security tokens during the subscriber login process to identify that you are logged in and so we can display premium articles to those with valid subscriptions.

Category 2: Performance cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.

We use these on our site in the display of notices and promotions to visitors by region, and to ensure they are not shown to ‘remembered’ visitors within certain parameters. We also use third party cookies where the data is limited to our use only for managing the performance of the site.

Category 3: Functionality cookies

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We use these on our site to remember choices you have made, for example in filling forms or to not be shown a notice again.

Category 4: Advertising cookies

These third-party cookies enable Literary Review to serve advertisements (for example, a magazine subscription offer) to visitors on other websites.  These advertisements will be based on your browsing behaviour on our website and may be tailored to the content you show interest in. The information this category of cookies gathers from your visit is limited to page URLs.

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