What’s a cookie?
A “cookie” is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive 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.
If you want to check or change what types of cookies you accept, this can usually be altered within your browser settings. You can block 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 all cookies (including 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, and therefore cannot be turned off. 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.
Cookies used on this sites are:
Necessary (14)
Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation, payment functions, site security and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
1. Name: CookieConsent
Provider: nicolaclemmitconsultancy.com
Purpose: Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain
Expiry: 1 year
Type: HTTP Cookie
2. Name: PHPSESSID
Provider: nicolaclemmitconsultancy.com
Purpose: Preserves user session state across page requests.
Expiry: Session
Type: HTTP Cookie
3. Name: wordpress_test_cookie
Provider: nicolaclemmitconsultancy.com
Purpose: Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies.
Expiry: Session
Type: HTTP Cookie
4. Name: __stripe_mid
Provider: checkout.stripe.com
Purpose: Payment
Expiry: 1 year
Type: HTTP Cookie
5. Name:__stripe_sid
Provider: checkout.stripe.com
Purpose: Payment
Expiry: Session
Type: HTTP Cookie
6. Name: checkout-live-session
Provider: checkout.stripe.com
Purpose: Payment
Expiry: 10 years
Type: HTTP Cookie
7. Name: cid
Provider: checkout.stripe.com
Purpose: Payment
Expiry: 95780 months
Type: HTTP Cookie
8. Name: https://q.stripe.com/
Provider: q.stripe.com
Purpose: Payment
Expiry: Session
Type: Pixel Tracker
9. Name: m
Provider: m.stripe.com
Purpose: Payment
Expiry: 10 years
Type: HTTP Cookie
10. Name: nsr
Provider: m.stripe.network
Purpose: Payment
Expiry: Session
Type: HTTP Cookie
11. Name: PYPF
Provider: paypalobjects.com
Purpose: Payment
Expiry: 27 days
Type: HTTP Cookie
12. Name: simpay_wp_session
Provider: nicolaclemmitconsultancy.com
Purpose: Payment
Expiry: Session
Type: HTTP Cookie
13. Name: lsid
Provider: nicolaclemmitconsultancy.com
Purpose: Unclassified
Expiry: Persistent
Type: HTML Local Storage
14. Name: wordfence_verifiedHuman
Provider: nicolaclemmitconsultancy.com
Purpose: Site security
Expiry: Session
Type: HTTP Cookie
Preferences (1)
Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in. On this site these cookies remember your submitted data when a comment is submitted in a blog post. The purpose is to auto populate form fields for subsequent comments to save you time.
Name: wfvt_#
Provider: nicolaclemmitconsultancy.com
Purpose: Remembers the user’s submitted data when a comment is submitted in a blog post. The purpose is to auto-populate form fields for subsequent comments, in order to save time for the user.
Expiry: Session
Type: HTTP Cookie
Statistics (3)
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
- Name: _ga
Provider: nicolaclemmitconsultancy.com
Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
Expiry: 2 years
Type: HTTP Cookie
2. Name: _gat
Provider: nicolaclemmitconsultancy.com
Purpose: Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate
Expiry: Session
Type: HTTP Cookie
3. Name: _gid
Provider: nicolaclemmitconsultancy.com
Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
Expiry: Session
Type: HTTP Cookie
Marketing (2)
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.
- Name: 01AI
Provider: abmr.net
Purpose: Used for gathering anonymous technical information regarding the user’s browser, operating system, IP address and screen resolution as well as the user’s navigation on the website.
Expiry: 1 year
Type: HTTP Cookie
2. Name: collect
Provider: google-analytics.com
Purpose: Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.
Expiry: Session
Type: Pixel Tracker