Cookies and how they benefit you
This site's cookies help to:
- Make this website work as you'd expect
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
- Continuously improve the website for you
I do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass data to advertising networks
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
You can learn more about all the cookies I use below
Cookies on this site
| Cookie Name | Cookie Category | Description | Duration |
| wordpress_ | 2 | WordPress cookie for a logged in user. | session |
| wordpress_logged_in_ | 2 | WordPress cookie for a logged in user | session |
| wordpress_test_ | 2 | WordPress cookie for a logged in user | session |
| wordpress_test_cookie | 2 | WordPress test cookie | session |
| wp-settings- | 1 | Wordpress also sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. | 1 year |
| wp-settings-time- | 2 | Wordpress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. | 1 year |
| PHPSESSID | 1 | To identify your unique session on the website | session |
| SESS | 1 | To ensure that you are recognised when you move from page to page within the site and that any information you have entered is remembered. | session |
| broken-link-css-wrap | 1 | Cookie used by broken-link-checker | 1 year |
| module-extra-settings-custom_field | 1 | Stores the state of a Broken Link Checker field. | 1 year |
| removed-link-css-wrap | 1 | Cookie used by broken-link-checker | 365 days |
| civicAllowCookies | 1 | Cookie Control user interface to remember your preference | 90 days |
| civicShowCookieIcon | 1 | Cookie Control user interface to remember your preference | 90 days |
| __utma | 2 | This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site pertaining to the cookie, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. Google Analytics uses the information from this cookie to calculate things like Days and Visits to purchase. | permanent |
| __utmb | 2 | __utmb is a Google Analytics cookie. It takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site. | session |
| __utmc | 2 | __utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site. | 30 mins |
| __utmz | 2 | Keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine you used, what link you clicked on, what keyword you used, and where they were in the world when you accessed a website. This cookie is how Google Analytics knows to whom and to what source / medium / keyword to assign the credit for a Goal Conversion or an Ecommerce Transaction. | 6 months |
| wptouch_switch_toggle | 1 | Contains the current setting of the view of the website: 'mobile' or 'normal' | 1 year |
Essential Cookies
I use cookies in certain sections of my website so that it works correctly including:
- Remembering your search settings
- Allowing you to add comments to my site
If you are not happy with these cookies being set, please do not use the blog section of my website.
Third party functions
My site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video.
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.
Social Website Cookies
So you can easily 'Like' or share my content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter, I have included sharing buttons on my website.
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
I use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited my website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when my site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps me to continuously improve my website.