COOKIE POLICY

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website
  • Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. They also enable us to moderate how users interact with the website, for example, in relation to liking or disliking a story, or providing comment and or project ideas
  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. We embed videos from our 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. Information is collected and stored as functionality cookies by Google via DoubleClick but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. To find out more please visit YouTube's embedding videos information page.
  • Social cookies. Our website is integrated with the following social platforms which independently may set cookies on your computer: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.

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

Title

Cookie Name

Expiration Time

Description

Google Analytics

_ga

2 years

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our Site. Google use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the Site, in particular to prevent users of Appraisd from seeing our remarketing promotional content. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the Site, where visitors have come to the Site from and the pages they visited. If you do not allow these cookies we will not be able to include your visit in our statistics. You can read the full Google Analytics privacy policy at:

__utma

2 years

__utmc

Session

__utmz

6 months

Like btn

likebtn_client

1 year

To identify and track voting via IP address for voting moderation

CloudFlare

__cfduid

1 year

The __cfduid cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. For example, if the visitor is in a coffee shop where there are a bunch of infected machines, but the specific visitor's machine is trusted (e.g. because they've completed a challenge within your Challenge Passage period), the cookie allows us to identify that client and not challenge them again. It does not correspond to any user ID in your web application, and does store any personally identifiable information.

Because Cloudflare uses this cookie to identify both HTTP and HTTPS requests from known clients, we do not set the "secure" flag on it. This is not a risk, however: as mentioned above the cookie does not contain sensitive data.

Twitter

__atuvc

2 years

Enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms

Openstreetmap

_osm_totp_token

1 hour

temporary passkey to access Openstreetmap

YouTube

1P_JAP

1 month

This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes. These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our Site.

ANID

9 months

Cookies for advertising served across the web and stored in google.com.

APISID

1 year

Cookies that are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests.

CONSENT

19 years

The Cookie Guide is a free JavaScript plugin that warns users about using cookies on the webpage.

DV

1 day

S sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes. These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our Site. Google use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the Site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the Site, where visitors have come to the Site from and the pages they visited. If you do not allow these cookies we will not be able to include your visit in our statistics. You can read the full Google Analytics privacy policy at:

HSID

2 years

NID

9 months

OTZ

2 weeks

S

Session

SAPISID

2 years

SEARCH_SAMESITE

6 months

SID

2 years

SIDCC

4 Months

SSID

2 years

 

You can block cookies 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 all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.