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Our use of cookies

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 allows us to improve our website.

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We use the following types of cookies on www.smith-nephew.com:

• 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 (e.g. the use of any learning resources) and anti-forgery token cookies.
• Performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often and if they receive an error message. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. These cookies are deleted when the browser is closed.
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Please note that third parties (including for example advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

We do not sell the information collected by cookies, nor do we disclose the information to unrelated third parties, except where required by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies).

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