Cookie guidance
We respect your choice on whether you wish to enable cookies or not when visiting this website.
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer when you visit certain web pages. We use cookies only when needed. For example, when you fill out a feedback or contact form some technical information is kept to determine whether anything is missing before being submitted.
We believe you will have a better browsing experience of our website using cookies, especially as the site contains many contact forms and searching mechanisms. If you don’t wish to use (and disable) cookies, you will still be able to browse the sit. Most web browsers have cookies enabled, but cookies can be disabled should you need to.
Please note that cookies can’t harm your computer. We don’t store personally identifiable information in cookies we create, but we do use Google Analytics to gather which pages have been visited to help improve your experience of the site. Google Analytics uses cookies to send basic page information as statistics. For example, they help us to identify and resolve errors, or to determine which areas of the website need more prominence.
We do have relationships with carefully-selected and monitored advertising partners who may also set cookies during your visit to be used solely for advertising purposes. All advertising when clicked upon opens in a new window. Please note that we are not responsible for the content of external websites.
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To make full use of browsing our website you will need to accept cookies, as our feedback forms and searching require this.
Our cookies do not store any sensitive information such as your name, address or patient details: they simply hold very basic technical ‘field’ information and statistics/visiting information. However, if you’d prefer to restrict, block or delete cookies from us, or any other website, you can use your browser to do this. Each browser is different, so check the ‘Help’ section of your particular browser (or your mobile phone’s handset manual) to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
Here’s a list of the main cookies we use, and what we use them for. You’ll find information about third party cookies here too.
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These cookies help Google Analytics (our statistics software) work. It solely helps us take and analyse visitor information such as browser usage, new visitor numbers, and page hits. That information helps us to improve the website and your website experience.
The data stored by these cookies can be seen only by Leicester’s hospitals technical and knowledge teams.
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This cookie allows our web servers to respond to your actions such as the submitting actions on contact forms and searching. Many pages on the website wouldn’t work for you without it.
Cookies from other websites (third-party cookies)
When you visit our website you may notice some cookies that are not related to Leicester Biomedical Research Centre. If you go onto a web page that contains embedded content, for example from YouTube or Vimeo, you may be sent cookies from these websites. We don’t control the setting of these cookies but you can check the third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.
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Further information about cookies
If you’d like to learn more about cookies in general and how to manage them, visit aboutcookies.org (opens in a new window).