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Data Protection Notice: Use of Cookies On Our Site

We use cookies to track visitor behaviour and store site preferences. Cookies are small text files which may be stored on your computer or mobile device.

If you prefer not to allow the use of cookies, you can change the confirmation on the browser to either warn you when you receive a cookie or to automatically reject them. You may find, however, that disabling cookies means certain areas of the site do not function correctly.

For more information on the cookies used on our site, please see below.

Cookies used by Mind Tools

Cookie	Area within MindTools.com	Purpose of Cookie
Mind Tools Stores
xid	/store	To record the unique selections of a user when browsing the Store. We record a numeric Visitor ID.
store_language	/store	To set the users preferred language when browsing the Store.
RefererCookie	/store	To record the origin of an affiliate referral in the Store.
affnum	Stores at /cgi-bin/sgx2/	To record the origin of an affiliate referral in the Store. A value of 10000 is set if there is no affiliate referral.
Mind Tools Club/Connect
amember_nr	/community	To authenticate and securely sign-in a user to the Mind Tools Club.
_amember_rp	/community	To authenticate and securely sign-in a user to the Mind Tools Club.
_amember_ru	/community	To authenticate and securely sign-in a user to the Mind Tools Club.
mplp_section	/community	To register the current skill group the user has opened in the Personal Learning Plan.
PHPSESSID	/community	Identifies user's Club member and product ID.
accordion_tab_to_show	/community	To record the open panel last visited for certain page layouts.
tab_to_show	/community	To record the inner panel last visited for certain page layouts.
Mind Tools Club Forum
phpbb3_2fxnk_k	Club Forum	PHPBB Forums
phpbb3_2fxnk_sid	Club Forum	PHPBB Forums
phpbb3_2fxnk_u	Club Forum	PHPBB Forums
phpbb2mysl_data	Club Forum	PHPBB Forums
phpbb2mysql_sid	Club Forum	PHPBB Forums
Mind Tools Public Area
pagecount	Public Area	To record how many pages a visitor, on an anonymous basis, views of the website.
suppsubs	Public Area	To control suppression of the interstitial inviting the user to sign up for the Mind Tools newsletter.
status	Public Area	To control suppression of the interstitial inviting the user to sign up for the Mind Tools newsletter.
corpTracking	Public Area – Corporate Microsite	To track where users who visit the Corporate section of the Mind Tools website come from (e.g. click through from a Newsletter, or click from a banner or text advert).
lmsHome	Public Area – Corporate Microsite	To identify which variant of the Corporate home page to display to a user, based on the advert that a user has clicked on.
plp_public	Public Area	To store the resource ids for a Personal Learning Plan.

3rd Party Cookies

Twitter Add-in
pid	Public Area	To allow a user to easily connect to Twitter from the Mind Tools website. More information >>.
LinkedIn Add-in
X-LI-IDC	Public Area	To allow a user to easily connect to LinkedIn from the Mind Tools website. More information >>
Google
_utma	All Areas	To allow recording of website usage and behavior. More information >>.
_utmb	All Areas	To allow recording of website usage and behavior. More information >>.
_utmc	All Areas	To allow recording of website usage and behavior. More information >>.
_utmz	All Areas	To allow recording of website usage and behavior. More information >>.
ShareThis
_unam	Home page and Newsletter pages	To allow recording of website usage and behavior. More information >>.
BrowseAloud
rwebooks-VARIOUS	All Areas	To enable accessibility functionality. More information >>.