Cookies
To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
How do we use cookies?
Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics tool provided by Google, to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.
Session cookies
Sometimes we keep some temporary data (e.g. login information, or preferences) only during the single session run (while you keep your browser open).
Long-term preferences
We do also store cookies to save you some time on setting your preferences the next time you visit our site.
- hide_coo - the cookie consent preference
- temperature_format - the saved setting of measurement-units used for temperature display
- time_format - the saved setting of time-format used for time display
- locations and locations_* - the saved state of your customized locations list
- locations_length - the number of "locations" cookie chunks
Payments
Paypal is using cookies to store account details
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How to control cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.