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Google Analytics & Privacy

Where we use cookies

Our site uses cookies in several places – we’ve listed each of them below with more details about why we use them and how long they will last.

Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)

We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure it’s meeting its users’ needs and to understand how we could do things better.

Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you're on the site, how you got here and what you click on. We don't collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information can't be used to identify who you are. We don't allow Google to use or share our analytics data.

The following cookies are set by Google Analytics:

Name	Typical content	Expires
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_utmb	randomly generated number	30 minutes
_utmc	randomly generated number	When you close your browser
_utmx	randomly generated number	2 years

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Storing your preferences

Our site may, in the future, allow us to provide you with options to improve your visit – remembering information you put into a form, for example. Currently the site sets a master cookie which identifies you from page to page to enable these features to happen. However, currently no data is stored or used by this cookie.

Name	Typical content	expires
Has_js	True of False	When you close your browser
the-definitive-guide-to-the-alexander-technique_cookiecontrol	True of False	90 Days