Cookies are files used by websites to send information to your browser. Typically they're used to do things like maintain your preferences, identify your session, store items in shopping carts and remember that you are logged in. These files cannot harm your computer. They can potentially be used to track some of your browser activity, and in the hands of hackers, can give away some personal data.
In most cases cookies are harmless, and disabling them using will only make your browsing experience worse.
Browser settings
In some cases websites will not work if you disable cookies in your web browser. There are instructions to change your browser setting civicuk.com/cookie-law/browser-settings
For more information about cookies you can take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
The cookies used by Epilepsy Action are listed below.
| Type | Cookie | Site used on | Description |
| Analytics | _utma _utmb _utmc _utmz |
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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. These cookies collect information in an anonymous form. They record the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come from and the pages they visited. Overview of privacy at Google |
| site cookie acceptance | ccShowCookieIcon epilepsy-action_cookiecontrol |
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This cookie is used to record if a user has accepted the use of cookies on Epilepsy Action website. This can be turned off by not agreeing to cookies. |
| Share links cookies | addthis.com: uit loc di dt uid psc |
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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors share information from our site. This can be turned off by not agreeing to cookies. |
| Basket | PHPSESSID |
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This cookie is required to process the basket of the shop and is deleted when you leave the website. |
| Logged in | SESSd3c909357ab9 64a05ba4f9b0896dc88e |
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This cookie is needed to remember that you are logged into the website. It is deleted when you close the browser. |
| Text size | textsize |
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This cookie remembers your preference for the size that the text is displayed at. |