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Sites made by Creative Stream Ltd use cookies, and if you turn off or block some cookies, then the site might not function as expected.

Site owners always look to create better content for you (that’s why you came to this site), so if you remove all cookies, you may be signed out of websites, your saved preferences could be deleted, and websites won’t function as you expect. The accessibility widget and the ability to change language (if enabled on this site) may cease to function, and videos and maps may not appear. 

Cookies change over time depending on the content and the functionality of the site and the service(s) provided for you, so the list of cookies below is likely to exceed those actually found. You can find out what cookies are used by clicking on the padlock in the address bar. Creative Stream sites can utilise (but are not limited to) cookies for social media, language translation, payment portals, subscriptions, form submissions, and interactive maps. Our sites also use analytic cookies to provide you with better content, and cookies to monitor the smooth running of the site.

As per the ICO cookie page: To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org 

CookieControl
Cookie Control is the widget on this site that enables you to make choices about cookies and is used by the ICO (the body that governs cookie policy). This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on this site, and where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s selection will be stored in this cookie.

__stripe_mid to provide fraud prevention and lasts one year (source)

Generated by the 3rd party accessibility tool, UserWay.
They said “In regards to cookies, we don’t store any personal data, the widget only saves the session information from the user’s preferences” e.g. A blind person who had the screen reader active.
Someone with visual issues who set the font to be bigger. The cookies that we found with their product are:

  • _cq_duid is a session cookie (expires when you close your browser).
  • _cq_suid is a session cookie (expires when you close your browser).


    • Google: Language, Maps, and Analytics
    This cookie is used to remember any selection a user has made about language on this site, using the Google language selector, so that the site will be shown in their chosen language when returning to the site. 

  • _ga to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier, and expires in 2 years (source)
  • _ga_<container-id> Used to persist session state and expires in 2 years (source)
  • _gali is used by Google Analytics to determine which links on a page are being clicked (source)
  • _gat_* is used to limit the number of user requests in order to maintain a website’s performance, and it expires after 1 day. It does not store any user information (source)
  • _gid to store and update a unique value for each page visited, and expires after 1 day (source)
  • __utma This cookie is what’s called a “persistent” cookie, as it never expires. 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.
  • __utmb and __utmc working together to calculate how long a visit takes. __utmb takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site, and expires at the end of a session.
  • __utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site (it doesn’t know when a user closes their browser or leaves a website, so it waits 30 minutes for another pageview to happen, and if it doesn’t, it expires).
  • _utmt stores the number of requests, and expires after 10 minutes.
  • __utmz  This keeps track of where the visitor came from (e.g., what search engine you used, or link you clicked, or what keyword you used, and, where they were in the world when they accessed a website). It expires in 6 months. (source)

    • These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. Read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data and Google’s advertising and measurement cookies

    __Secure-3PAPISID shows personalised adverts, duration 2 years (source)

    __Secure-1PSIDCC shows personalised adverts, duration 2 years

    SSID Google ads optimisation – duration 2 years (source)

    SID Google ads optimisation – duration 2 years (source)

    APISID Google ads optimisation – duration 2 years (source)

    SAPISID Google ads optimisation – duration 2 years (source)

    __Secure-1PAPISID Used by Google for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising – duration 2 years (source)

    __Secure-3PSIDCC Google cookie required to use website options and services – duration 1 year (source)

    UULE Google – shows you results that are relevant to your location – expires in 6 months (source)

    1P_JAR Google ads duration one month (source)

    OGPC Google maps – duration 1 month (source)

    SOCS – Google consent cookie – to store a user’s state regarding their cookies choices – duration 2 years (source)

    AEC ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. Duration 6 months (source)

    OGP = google – activate and track Google Maps functionality (source)

    SEARCH_SAMESITE allow servers to mitigate the risk of information leakage attacks by asserting that a particular cookie should only be sent with requests initiated from the same registrable domain.

    Tk_tc by Jetpack to store the user’s usage history (source)

    Tk_r3d by Jetpack for statistics, duration 3 days (source)

    Tk_or by Jetpack for WooCommerce, duration 5 years (source)

    bp-groups-filter from BuddyPress and used for forums

    bp-groups-scope from BuddyPress (source)

    Embedded content (e.g Youtube, Vimeo, Social Media, and Maps)
    There may be content that is embedded in a Creative Stream site from a third party. When this happens we don’t have control over the embedded content cookies from these external websites, and you’ll need to take action yourself. You can go to the Creative Stream site to find out more about how to take control. The owners of this site may embed videos from their own official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. Read more at YouTube’s embedding video information page
     

  • PREF Expires after eight months (used to store information such as your preferred page configuration and playback preferences like explicit autoplay choices, shuffle content, and player size)

    • Vimeo cookies: vuid
    Vimeo’s embeddable video player uses first-party cookies that they consider essential to the video player experience. They state they do not use third-party analytics or advertising cookies when their video player appears on a third-party website, unless (i) the website visitor is logged in to their Vimeo account and (ii) the user who embedded the video has not implemented the DNT Parameter (source)

    Functional cookies

    SIDCC (source)

    HSID to provide fraud prevention expires in 2 years (source)

    wordpress_test_cookie is a functional, session cookie (source) to read if cookies can be replaced

    woocommerce_items_in_cart is a functional, session cookie (source)

    Woocommerce_cart_hash is a functional, session cookie to store items in the shopping cart (source)

    wp_lang WordPress cookie to store language settings, and lasts for the session (source)

    WordPress_test_cookie WordPress cookie to read if cookies can be placed, and lasts for the session (source)

    cookie_notice_accepted to read if cookies can be placed – functional and persistent (source)

    Session Cookies

    PHPSESSID
    The PHPSESSID cookie is native to PHP and enables websites to provide functions across pages. It is used to establish a user session and to pass state data via a temporary cookie, which is commonly referred to as a session cookie (expires when you close your browser). (source)

    wordpress_sec_ Is to provide protect against hackers and store account details (source)

    WooCommerce: Cookies from WooCommece such as woocommerce_cart_hash and woocommerce_items_in_cart are linked to the items in your basket, so removing/declining them means that any purchases (free or paid) may not get to the checkout.

    pmpro_visit Cookies from pmpro are linked to your membership to this site.

    _grecaptcha to provide spam protection (source)

    Cookies that only affect those who have admin type permissions on the site

    wp-settings-1 and wp-settings-time-1 are used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.

    wordpress_logged_in_ a functional cookie to store logged-in users (source)

    tk_ai from Jetpack, stores a randomly-generated anonymous ID. This is only used within the admin area and is used for general analytics tracking (source) 

    Details correct as of 10.02.23