A cookie is a snippet of text that is sent from the website server and stored on a web browser. Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences, and generally improving your experience of a website. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier. If a website doesn’t use cookies, it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site and slow down your experience.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
This allows us to look at really useful data about the visitors we have had to our website.
COOKIE DETAILS:
- utma determines unique visitors.
- utmb determines page views.
- utmc determines session status.
- utmz determines the referral used by the visitor to reach our site.
- utmv custom cookies not usually in use.
- utmx custom cookies not usually in use.
WORDPRESS
If we have comments enabled or allow the public to contribute in other ways via default WordPress functionality we will also use some cookies. These are required for the website to function properly.
COOKIE DETAILS:
WordPress_[hash] cookie to store your authentication details.
WordPress_logged_in_[hash] cookie, which indicates when you’re logged in, and who you are.
WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies.
MANAGING COOKIES
For information on how to manage your cookie settings please follow the link for your browser:
For other browsers and mobile devices we recommend you use a search engine and enter something like “how to change cookie settings in [browser/device name here]”.