1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
2. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for several reasons, which are detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry-standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not, in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
We use the following types of cookies:
- Essential Cookies: These are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, you cannot refuse them without impacting how our site functions.
- Analytics and Performance Cookies: These cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our website and how users use the site. The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor. It includes the number of visitors to our site, the websites that referred them to our site, the pages they visited on our site, what time of day they visited our site, whether they have visited our site before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our site more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information, and to monitor the level of activity on our site.
- Marketing Cookies: These cookies are used to show advertising that is likely to be of interest to you based on your browsing habits. These cookies, as served by our content and/or advertising providers, may combine information they collected from our website with other information they have independently collected relating to your web browser's activities across their network of websites.
4. Cookies We Use
| Category | Cookie Name | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Essential | PHPSESSID | Used to store a user's session ID. |
| Essential | pulse_cookie_consent | Stores the user's cookie consent preferences. |
| Analytics | _ga, _gid | Google Analytics cookies used to distinguish users and analyze website traffic. |
5. How to Manage Your Cookie Preferences
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by visiting our Cookie Settings page. There, you can adjust the sliders to 'On' or 'Off', then clicking 'Save Preferences'. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.