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This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on the ICO website. This cookie is, by default, set on arrival to the site with a value of ‘True’. If users choose to delete non-essential cookies, the cookie value is updated to a value of ‘False’. 

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One or both of these cookies may be set by our content management system on a small number of browsers, upon arrival to the ICO site or young people's pages. Neither is used by the ICO for any purpose. These cookies are deleted when a user closes their browser. The supplier of our content management system (the software we use to update our website) is working to remove this cookie from their product.