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• Make our website work as you'd expect
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• Remember your preferences such as colours, text size and layout

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• Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
• Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
• Pass data to advertising networks
• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties

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