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Third party cookies
You may notice some cookies that are not related to the V Foundation’s website. Some of our pages contain embedded content such as Youtube video or AddThis sharing widgets. The V Foundation does not govern the publication of 3rd party cookies. To understand more about their cookies and privacy statements, please visit the relevant sites.
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If you do not want cookies to be stored on your PC it is possible to disable this function without affecting your navigation around the site.
How do you disable cookies?
If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer and you wish to block the V Foundation’s website cookies, you can perform the following:
- On your browser tools menu, select ‘Internet Options’
- Click on the ‘Privacy’ tab and then on the ‘Sites’ button
- Type into the ‘Address of website’ field:
- www.jimmyv.org
- Click on the ‘Block’ button
- Click on the OK button
Other browsers:
Other browsers have similar cookie management abilities in their preferences settings, please refer to your browser’s ‘Help’ facility.
Find more detailed information on disabling cookies from aboutcookies.org.