Paulspages.co.uk uses cookies, small pieces of information placed on your computer's hard disk by web browsers. These fall into two categories:
Cookies created by paulspages.co.uk are used to make the pages work, e.g. to store usernames so the pages can display them. We don't track your path through the site, measure how long you stay, or anything like that. We don't share any information stored in cookies with anyone else either.
Web browsers keep cookies from different domains (e.g. paulspages.co.uk, bbc.co.uk) separate, so other websites can't read the data in cookies created by paulspages.co.uk. However, we can't guarantee that viruses or other malware won't be able to break a browser's security system and read the cookies it's stored - this is beyond our control.
Here's a list of paulspages.co.uk sections that use cookies, with details of what they use them for (please note that it may not be exhaustive - there is some quite old stuff in odd corners of the site!)
Sudoku XP Please note that if you disable cookies in your browser, then you won't be able to log in to SudokuXP.
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Client-Server quiz.
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Paul's Backgammon Vaults.
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Housemates Dilemma, Avalaff, Avalaff Sig Buffle. |
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Paul's Web Design Pages |
Can I stop these cookies from being written by paulspages.co.uk?
Yes - by disabling cookies in your browser (see your browser's help pages for details of how to do this). However if you disable cookies then the functionality supported by them (e.g. remembering your name in Avalaff and Housemates Dilemma) won't work. SudokuXP, which uses a 'logged in' cookie to verify that you're a member and have successfully logged in, won't work at all with cookies disabled.
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These adverts place their own cookies on your computer, which Google uses in conjuction with information gleaned from Google searches you've made, and other sources such as websites you've visited, to send ads which it thinks will be of interest to you. For example the ad above was sent to me because I'd searched for that product's name in Google a few days earlier.
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