Cookie policy

28 February 2020

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. [We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.]

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Google Analytics

We collect anonymous information about all website visitors, such as the number of times a page is visited and searches performed using the search function. This information is used in order to understand how the website is being used and this helps us improve your user experience. For more information please visit http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

AddThis

We use sharing buttons to allow you to share our content on your social networks. This allows us to understand what our most popular content is. You will need to share a piece of content by logging into a social network via the buttons on our website before we would receive the information. For more information please visit http://www.addthis.com/privacy#.T6qJbehYvFk

OAX Cookies

This cookie allows us to count the number of times advertisements on our site have been clicked through. We use this information to assess the performance of adverts on our site

Has_js

This cookie records whether the user has javascript enabled on the browser and alters available functionality based on whether the user is using javascript

Cxense

This cookie records your website so that we can offer you suggestions of other relevant content

Persistent cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember your settings when you visit again in the future. This enables the site to recognise you as a subscriber and to complete and review question sets

Admedo

This cookie records your visit to enable us to deliver relevant advertisements to you

Usabilla

This cookie records customer feedback survey services

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

  • Google

To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies include link to consent management solution.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 28 days.

Last updated
Citation
The Pharmaceutical Journal, Cookie policy;Online:DOI:10.1211/PJ.2020.20207760

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