Cookies are often used by website owners to help them understand how visitors use their website. A small file is stored on the computer or mobile device accessing the site. These cookies cannot be used to identify you personally, and do not collect information from your computer.
Some examples of how this information is used to improve services can be found below:
Measuring how people are using services
Technology being used to access the site, for example, web browser
Both "session" cookies and "persistent" cookies may be used on the website. Session cookies to keep track of your visit while you navigate our website, and persistent cookies to enable the website to recognise you when you re-visit. Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser. Persistent cookies will remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach a specified expiry date.
Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, while some browsers allow you to reject just third party cookies. You can check the settings of the browser you are using for available options. However, blocking all cookies might have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
We display YouTube clips on some of our pages on this site. As part of this tool YouTube places a couple of "persistent" cookies on your computer.
Name:VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, PREF
Purpose: Tracking the active user session on
YouTube
Type: Persistent, expiration date varies