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These cookies are required for site to run. The GDPR cookies are used to track your GDPR preferences. The wordpress test cookie is simply to check if cookies are enabled on your browser.
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
FUNCTIONALITY
Stripe is used to making credit card payments. Stripe uses a cookie to remember who you are and to enable the website to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers.
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google\'s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.
_gid
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.
__utmz
This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour measure of site performance. This cookie identifies the source of traffic to the site - so Google Analytics can tell site owners where visitors came from when arriving on the site. The cookie has a life span of 6 months and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
__utma
This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie lasts for 2 years by default and distinguishes between users and sessions. It it used to calculate new and returning visitor statistics. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. The lifespan of the cookie can be customised by website owners.
__utmxx, __utmx
This cookie is associated with Google Website Optimizer, a tool designed to help site owners improve their wbesites. It is used to distinguish between two varaitions a webpage that might be shown to a visitor as part of an A/B split test. This helps site owners to detemine which version of a page performs better, and therefore helps to improve the website.
__utmc
This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. It is not used in most sites but is set to enable interoperability with the older version of Google Analytics code known as Urchin. In this older versions this was used in combination with the __utmb cookie to identify new sessions/visits for returning visitors. When used by Google Analytics this is always a Session cookie which is destroyed when the user closes their browser. Where it is seen as a Persistent cookie it is therefore likely to be a different technology setting the cookie.
_hjid
Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.
This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.
SAPISID, APISID
This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor\'s interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device.
HSID
This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to build a profile of the website visitor\'s interests and show relevant ads on other sites.
__qca
This is a cookie usually associated with Quantcast, a digital advertising company. They provide website rankings, and the data they collect is also used for audience segmentation and targeted advertising.
__auc
This cookie is used to collect information on consumer behavior, which is sent to Alexa Analytics.
_uetsid
This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site.
_hp2_id.[*]
This cookie is used by Heap Analytics to track user behavior on the website. Cookies in this domain have lifespan of 2 years.
_gcl_au
Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services
NID
This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to help build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other sites.
CONSENT
This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.
__gads
This cookie is associated with the DoubleClick for Publishers service from Google. Its purpose is to do with the showing of adverts on the site, for which the owner may earn some revenue.
1P_JAR
This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.
tk_ai
This cookie is used for tracking purposes.
_fbp
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers
UNKNOWN
The purposes of these cookies are unknow according to https://cookiepedia.co.uk/. This may be sue to the fact they are newer cookies and have not been documented as of yet.
