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What are cookies?

Cookies are pieces of data consisting of letters and numbers that are stored in the cookie directory on your computer or device. Since a webpage has no memory of a visitor’s actions, cookies are used to enable functionality and features such as storing a visitor’s personal preferences for repeat visits or, if the feature is available, enabling users to register with the website so that they may comment on news stories.

Why do we use cookies?

CASW uses cookies to maintain our website and provide features such as the Twitter feed widget in the website’s sidebar. Any information stored regarding a user’s personal preferences is anonymous. Please see CASW’s privacy policy for more information regarding how CASW handles information you provide about yourself.

What categories of cookies do we use?

  • Session cookies: session cookies enable a website to remember a visitor as they move between pages in the website. In this way a visitor does not need to re-enter any data they may have previously submitted during their visit. Session cookies are anonymous.
  • Registration cookies: this catagory of cookie allows our website’s contributors to log in to our WordPress content management system, so that they can write or amend website pages. These cookies also allow our contributors to customise the content management system’s interface to their personal preferences.
  • Third party cookies: these are cookies used by services outside of CASW’s control. The Twitter widget cookie is an example of a cookie controlled by Twitter and therefore, a third party cookie. The majority of third party cookies can be blocked by adjusting your web browser’s settings. For more information, on how to change your web browser’s settings, please read “Disabling cookies” below. At present, CASW does not use a website analytics service such as Google Analytics. As a result, our website does not use analytics cookies.
  • YouTube videos: the CASW website contains videos from YouTube. These videos have been embedded in the CASW website using ‘privacy-enhanced mode’. From the YouTube website; “This mode restricts YouTube’s ability to set cookies for a user who views a web page that contains a privacy-enhanced YouTube embed video player, but does not click on the video to begin playback. YouTube may still set cookies on the user’s computer once the visitor clicks on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.” Cookies that YouTube stores includes cookies that maintain the integrity of video statistics, prevent fraud and improve the site experience.

The following table identifies cookies used by Stratford-upon-Avon and District CAB’s website and what they are for:

Cookie name Purpose Lasts
guest_id Twitter session cookie 1 month
catAccCookies Determines if a visitor has visited the website before and, if not, the website displays the cookie warning 1 month
wordpress_[hash] Stores user’s authentication details. Limited to the admin console area  
wordpress_logged_in_[hash] Indicates a user is logged in and who you are, for most most interface use  
wp-settings-{time}-[UID] Used to customise view of the admin interface and main site interface  
use_hitbox Increment YouTube views counter Session
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Estimate user’s bandwidth 240 days

Disabling cookies

For more information regarding disabling cookies in your web browser, please refer to your browser’s Help menu. Alternatively, the following links take you to instructions for disabling cookies in some of today’s most popular browsers.

More information

For more information regarding cookies, what they are and what they do, you may find the following websites useful.

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