A cookie is a piece of text that is stored on your computer by your web browser. We use cookies to monitor how people use our site. This helps us to understand how our customers and potential customers use our website so we can develop and improve the design, layout and function of the sites. This means that when you go back to that website, it can give you tailored options based on the information it has stored about your last visit.
More detailed information on cookies can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org
We may set the following type of cookie when you visit 'weeklycover.co.uk' (the "Website"):
Session cookies:
Used to ensure that you are recognised when you move from page to page within the Website and that any information that you have entered is remembered. This minimises the need to authenticate or reprocess each new area of the Website that you visit.
Google Analytics:
We use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service which uses cookies to help us to count the number of people that visit 'weeklycover.co.uk' and to analyse how they use it (e.g. we can determine which pages on our site are the most popular ones).
The information generated by the cookies about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google undertakes not to associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
If you do not want us to use cookies in your browser, you can remove cookies from your computer's hard drive, or set your browser to block cookies or to send a warning notice before a cookie is stored on your computer. However, please note that you may not be able to use many of the services on our website or other websites without cookies.
You can find information on disabling cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please feel free to email us
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The message given to a web browser by a web server. The message is then stored by the browser in a text file called cookie.txt. Each time the browser requests a page from the server, this message is sent back. A cookie's main objective is to identify users and personalise their visit by customising web pages for them for example by welcoming them by name next time they visit the same site. A site using cookies will usually invite you to provide personal information such as your name, email address and interests.
All networks connected to the internet speak IP, the technical standard which allows data to be transmitted between two devices. TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is responsible for making sure messages get from one host to another and that the messages are understood.
If you are connected to the Internet you have one, for example it may look something like this 198.184.98.9 Web Server Delivers (serves up) web pages to your computer.