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What are cookies?

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How does this Website use cookies?

The Website uses cookies to improve your browsing experience and also to gather analytics data about your behavior on the Website. The former is done to ensure the Website’s operation, while the latter aims to gather information in order to continuously improve user experience. All behavioral data gathered by the Website is anonymized.

What types of cookies does this site use?

This Website uses two types of cookies. The WordPress cookie (wordpress_test_cookie) is used on the front-end—it does not require users to be logged in—and checks to see if cookies are enabled on the browser and saves that information.

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