What’s a cookie?

A “cookie” is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive if you agree to this and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.

Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.

We are required to obtain your consent for all non-essential cookies used on our website. You can block cookies (including essential cookies) at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block essential cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns with regards how you are using our website. This helps us to develop and improve our website as well as products and / or services in response to what you might need or want.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

NECESSARY COOKIES

Cookie Name: gdpr-kb
Type: HTTP
Purpose: This cookie allows us to store your consent to our cookie policy.
Expiry: 10 years

Cookie Name: is_mobile
Type: HTTP
Purpose: This cookie is used to determine which type of device you are using so the website can be properly formatted.
Expiry: Session

Cookie Name: language
Type: HTTP
Purpose: This cookie is used to determine your preferred language on the website.
Expiry: 13 days

PERFORMANCE COOKIES

Cookie Name: _ga
Type: HTTP
Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how you use this website.
Expiry: 2 years

Cookie Name: _ga_#
Type: HTTP
Purpose: Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the numbers of times you have visited this website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit.
Expiry: 2 years

Cookie Name: _sp_root_domain_test_#
Type: HTTP
Purpose: Pending
Expiry: Session

Cookie Name: p.gif
Type: Pixel from typekit.net
Purpose: Keeps track of special fonts used on a website for internal analysis. This cookie does not register any visitor data.
Expiry: Session

You can alter your cookie preferences at any time by going to your browser settings and changing your cookies settings. Please refresh your page to ensure that the new settings have taken effect.

You can also control your cookie settings through your web browser.

You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 30 days.

If you have any questions about the cookies that we use, feel free to email us at admin@thekowthaconstellation.com