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You are reminded and warned that use of any remote service is almost certainly logged or leaves other traces, deliberately or otherwise, on both local and remote devices, which typically comprise your computer, your ISP (Internet Service Provider) and the websites that you have visited. These data are generally stored without your explicit authorization or even knowledge. Some of these data may be stored and/or used in a different country from you. They may be used for technical, commercial and/or law enforcement purposes. Some of these data, and hence your activity, can probably be traced back to you, personally, for instance via your IP addresses and/or the remote and/or local accounts that you have used. Mostly you cannot avoid this; some is even legally required.
One form of such a trace is cookies (very small files), which may be stored on the computer (or other web-browsing device) that you are using, within your local account. For some reason, these normally more insignificant and harmless traces are the only forms of such data about you and your activity (other than those that are obviously public or explicitly supplied or transmitted by you) that are currently regulated by the EU or UK governments.
Cookies are currently only used by this website (johnnewbury.me.uk) for anonymous statistical tracking of usage, to help improve the website; not even for any commercial purpose. Accesses to any page or other file on this website is tracked by Google Analytics; see Google's privacy statement. By default, this causes the placement of a few first-party (website-specific) cookies, in the account on the computer or other web-browsing device that you are using. Further anonymous statistical tracking information is also sent to and stored at Google. These cookies and data at Google collect information about how visitors use this website, for instance which of its pages, files or hyperlinks they access most often, and whether they thereby get error messages. This does not cause any information that identifies you to be stored anywhere, including on your device or at Google; even your IP address is hashed so that the original data cannot be decoded; typically it does not locate you closer than your nearest town. All this information is aggregated, which makes it even more anonymous. It is only used by the website owner and colleagues to improve how the website works, and possibly by Google.
If you take no further action, by using this website, you implicitly agree that we may place these types of cookies on your account on your browsing device and send associated data to Google for the above purposes.
You may disable this website from creating any cookies, yet continue to use this website without any visible effect; it will just reduce usefulness of other such data a little. To do this, set your browser to disable this website from creating cookies - see How to control cookies and How to delete cookies, both of which are browser-specific. However, you are warned that disabling all types of cookie that are produced by all websites may prevent or degrade your use of certain websites.
You cannot disable the collection of Google Analytics data collection for this website - except that provided by cookies.
Your options:
If you do not wish to allow this website to use cookies: you should either set your browser to disable this website from using cookies, and delete any existing ones (see above), or not access any page or other file on this website.
If you do not wish to allow this website to collect any Google Analytics data: you should not access any page or other file on this website.
If you do not wish to allow the collection of any of the above forms of data: you should not use any remote service.
This page and website conforms to and goes beyond the requirements of the Cookie Guide (see Category 2), by the ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) UK, which is recommended in Guidance on the rules on use of cookies and similar technologies by the ICO (Information Commissioner's Office), UK.