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2. What are cookies?
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3. What cookies does Global Development Finance use?
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Global Development Finance use session cookies to ensure that you are recognised when you move from page to page within one site and that any information you have entered is remembered.
Session cookies allow users to be recognised within Global Development Finance so any page changes or item or data selection you do is remembered from page to page. When you visit one page and select items, the session cookie remembers your selection. Without session cookies, if you click next, the new page does not recognize your past activities on prior pages and your selection will always be empty.
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