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Social Media

The Communication Matters website includes social media features (e.g.  the Twitter feed on the homepage) and other tools that link to third-party-services (e.g. videos from YouTube). These features and tools may collect information and they may set a cookie to make sure the feature or tool functions properly. Your interactions with those features/tools and information collected or used by such a tool or feature are governed by the privacy policies of the companies who are providing them – check their privacy policies and websites for further information about these cookies and how you can choose to reject them.

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