How are cookies used on www.quaker.org.uk?

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Description of cookies used on this site

Cookie

Name (expires after)

Purpose

Content management system

_quakers_session_ (session)

This cookie is essential and is used by the content management system (CMS) to protect the site from cross-site request forgery, also known as one-click attack or session riding.

Cookie preference

CookieControl (1 year)

This cookie is used to remember a user's choice about cookies on this site. Where users have already made a choice, it will be stored in this cookie.

Crazy Egg

  • _ceir and is_returning (both 5 years)
  • _CEFT (1 year)
  • _ceg.s, _ceg.u, s and u (all 3 months)
  • cer.s (session)
  • cer.v (up to 31 days - expires on the first of the month)

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. Information collected includes the routes taken through the site, the most popular links and the parts of pages which attract the most attention.

Universal Analytics (Google)

  • _ga (2 years)
  • _gat (10 mins)
  • _gid (24 hrs)

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. Information collected includes the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.
Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data.

YouTube cookies

  • PREF (8 months)
  • VSC (session)
  • VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE (8 months)
  • remote_sid (session)

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. YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information if you play our embedded videos.
Read more at YouTube's embedding videos information page.

We also provide links to videos and video playlists, these links will take you to YouTube's own website. We have no control over the cookies that YouTube uses there.

Vimeo cookies

  • player (session)
  • vuid (session)

We embed videos from our official Vimeo channel. If you visit a page with a Vimeo video on it, Vimeo will drop a cookie ('player') to enable the video to play. If you press play Vimeo will drop another cookie ('vuid') to collect analytics data such as how long a viewer has watched the video. These cookies do not track individuals.

At the time of writing Vimeo was not setting these cookies.

SoundCloud cookies

sc_anonymous_id (session)

We embed audio streaming from our official SoundCloud channel. If you visit a page with a SoundCloud player, SoundCloud will drop a cookie to enable the audio to play. This is not a tracking cookie.

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