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What’s a cookie?

The Wales Coast Path web site uses cookies to store information on your computer, to improve the website. One of the cookies we use is essential for parts of the site to operate and is set by default.
We use cookies on this website. A cookie is a small piece of text stored on your computer or whatever other device you use to surf the Internet. Cookies have many uses, but fundamentally they are used to store information about you on your computer.
We encourage you to accept the cookies our website uses as they help us to improve the user experience for you and many others.
Cookies give us important generic information regarding the behaviour of our users within our site - what areas they enjoy visiting - what services they frequently use etc.
No sensitive information, such as telephone numbers or email addresses, is stored within these cookies.
The Wales Coast Path will update these terms as cookies policy changes and adapts. You should try and visit this page now and again, to review the standing terms because they are bound to you as a user.
By default you will not receive cookies from this site. To accept cookies click the check-box at the top of the page and click “continue”.
If you have already accepted cookies and no longer wish to receive them, select “cookie settings” under the privacy settings in your browser options, then add our domain to the list of websites you do not want to accept cookies from. Under settings you can also delete individual cookies or any cookies that your browser has stored.
You can find more information on how to delete and control cookies at AboutCookies.org If you set your browser to refuse cookies, please be aware that there may be functionality on various other websites that does not work.

Additional information on cookies is available at several sites:

Cookie / Expiry	Host Name	Purpose / Type	Detail
NMSTAT [Expires after 1,000 days]	Wales Coast Path	Non-essential, Persistent, Web statistics cookie, 1^st party,	This cookie is used to help record your use of this website. It collects statistics about site usage, for example, when you last visited the site. This information is then used to improve the user experience on our website. The cookie contains a randomly generated ID used to recognise your browser when you read a page. The cookie contains no personal information and is used only for web analytics. This cookie is set to expire 1,000 days after your last visit.
LANG [Expires after one year]	Wales Coast Path	Essential, persistent, Set by default, Language change cookie, 1st party, No user identifiable details stored	Upon visiting our site for the first time readers can opt to select the language of their choice [English or Welsh]. In addition, readers can switch languages at any point when navigating through the site, including our web maps. This cookie remembers that language choice, and automatically displays the chosen language when the reader returns to the CCW site in any one session.
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