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It allows us to be more efficient. We can learn what information is important to our visitors, and what isn't. We can discard Web pages you don't use, and focus our efforts on information you need.

When you sign in as a member of Our Dogs we generate cookies that represent whether you are signed in or not.

There are also third-party cookies such as the media sharing buttons (twitter, facebook) on some pages which will make a record when you tweet or like a page.

We also have some advertising cookies that register when an advert has been clicked. Again this is for statistical purposes only. It does not say who has clicked the advert just that it has been clicked.