We at AllAboutCookies.org take privacy of our visitors seriously and we wish to stress that we do not gather, save, collect nor use any personal information of visitors to our Website.
We employ our own customised statistic analytics which uses session cookies that expire after each session which we use to identify what country you visit from, what methods and how you come to visit our site, including whether you came direct to our site or from another website and the URL of that website.
We also try to identify if you have visited us from a search engine such as Google or Bing and for what search string you used, or whether it was from a bookmark.We also follow and note the pages you visit. We do not usually collect nor store the Internet protocol address (IP) from which you visit.
However, for security reasons, we may at time turn on our log analyser, to ascertain, where a attempted security breach is taking place and that will log IP's.
The information generated by our first party cookies about your use of our website is stored by us on a server in the United States of America.The data is kept for a maximum of 30 days and then deleted. No data is shared or given to third parties.These cookies DO NOT identify, you, nor do they store personal information, but just the action of your use of our website.
We also have a cookie, that remembers your acceptance of our cookie policy.This cookie expires after 30 days. So in summary, here are our 2 cookies and their function
| Cookie Name | Cookie Expires After | Cookie Function |
| PHPSESSID | Immediately | Necessary: Strictly for statistical purposes, to track and monitor, what country, what pages and what method, was used to visit the site.See above for more details |
| Cookiescriptaccept | 29 Days | Necessary: To remember your cookie acceptance.Cookie acceptance is implied after 60 seconds of staying on the site. |
| __cfduid | 11 months | Necessary: The cookie is set by CloudFare. The cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information. |
| IDE | 12 months | For Advertising: Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. See below to Opt out. |
| __cf_bm | 1 day | Cookie purpose description: This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
| cfduid | 29 days | Cookie purpose description: Cookie purpose description: Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. |
| _ga | 2 years | Cookie purpose description: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| _ga_# | 2 years | Cookie purpose description: Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. |
| _gads | 1 year | Cookie purpose description: Used to register what ads have been displayed to the user. |
| DSID | 1 day | Cookie purpose description: Used by Google DoubleClick for re-targeting, optimisation, reporting and attribution of online adverts. |
| goog_pem_mod | Persistent | Cookie purpose description: Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. |
| google_ama_config | HTML Persistent | Cookie purpose description: Collects statistical data related to the user's website visits, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded. The purpose is to segment the website's users according to factors such as demographics and geographical location, in order to enable media and marketing agencies to structure and understand their target groups to enable customised online advertising. |
| GoogleAdServingTest | Session | Cookie purpose description: Used to register what ads have been displayed to the user. |
| pcs/activeview | Session | Cookie purpose description: Used by DoubleClick to determine whether website advertisement has been properly displayed - This is done to make their marketing efforts more efficient. |
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, refer the manage cookies section of this site.
To pay for the running and publishing of the site, we use google's Adsense program to serve ads when you visit our website. Our site would not exist without advertisers paying to put their ads on this site.
Google may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by Google, click here.https://www.google.com/privacy/ads/
AllAboutCookies.org does not collect, sell, rent, or otherwise distribute email addresses or any other personal information. We also do not solicit or collect any emails unless you make a request for reuse of our content or advertising enquiries or other general enquiry. All discussions by email or phone are completely confidential unless we obtain written consent from you.
Our Privacy Policy is subject to change. We will mark any change by placing a asterix * beside our link to our Policy.
This policy was last updated 5th March 2021