Use of COOKIES

Recent legislation in the UK requires website creators to declare use of cookies. You can find more information about these laws on the UK Information Commissioner's Office website or AboutCookies.org.

Catalogue of Life services do use cookies. Some of them are essential for the operation of our services, others help us to collect site usage statistics. We do NOT collect any personal data about our visitors.

The following cookies are set:

• iconSpan: remembers if the checkbox is checked for the images in the tree.
• treeSourceDatabase: remembers if the checkbox is checked for the source databases in the tree.
• treeStatistics: remembers if the checkbox is checked for the statistics in the tree.
• aci_language: remembers the language that is selected.
• PHPSESSID: remembers the session id, this is used for remembering what search string was used.
• in addition to the above cookies are set by Google Analytics used to collect statistics on usage of the Catalogue of Life