Cookie Policy
What is a cookie?
How do we use cookies?
Cookies are either:
- Session cookies: these are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page but they do not collect any personal data from your computer; or
- Persistent cookies: a persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again. We use persistent cookies for Google Analytics.
Cookies can also be categorised as follows:
- Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and/or service. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.
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Performance cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.
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Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.
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Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
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First and third party cookies: First party cookies are cookies set by our website. Third party cookies are cookies on our website that are set by a website other than our website, such as where we have adverts on our website or use Facebook pixels so that we can show you relevant content from us when you are on Facebook.
We use third party cookies on our website and these are set out in the table below.
| Cookie | Domain | Description | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wpEmojiSettingsSupports | cadrean.com | Set by WordPress to check whether the browser can render emojis properly. | Session | Necessary |
| nfd-enable-cf-opt | cadrean.com | Set by Bluehost/Newfold Digital to manage Cloudflare performance optimisation settings. | 1 day | Necessary |
| __Secure-BUCKET | .google.com | Set by Google for load balancing and routing requests across Google infrastructure. | 6 months | Necessary |
| __Secure-STRP | .google.com | Set by Google as a session integrity and security token for Google services. | Session | Necessary |
| _ga | .cadrean.com | Installed by Google Analytics. Calculates visitor, session and campaign data and tracks site usage. Stores information anonymously using a randomly generated ID to recognise unique visitors. | 1 year 1 month | Analytics |
| _ga_* | .cadrean.com | Set by Google Analytics (GA4) to store and count page views per session. The suffix is unique to each Google Analytics property. | 1 year 1 month | Analytics |
| _gcl_au | .cadrean.com | Set by Google Tag Manager to measure the efficiency of advertisements on websites using Google services. | 3 months | Advertisement |
| _gcl_ls | cadrean.com | Set by Google, linked to Google Ads and Tag Manager conversion tracking. | Persistent | Advertisement |
| NID | .google.com | Set by Google to store user preferences and personalisation data, used by embedded Google services such as reCAPTCHA. | 6 months | Advertisement |
| test_cookie | .doubleclick.net | Set by Google DoubleClick to verify whether the browser supports cookies, used for ad targeting purposes. | Session | Advertisement |