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How we use cookies
At the BMA, our primary use of cookies is to identify which web pages are accessed. This helps us to analyse and improve the navigation and content of the website.
We do this mostly through traffic log cookies and analytics services provided by Google Analytics and Comscore Sitestat.
We also use cookies tracked through Google Analytics to optimise our Google search rankings in order to help users find relevant content.