What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your browser by a website you visit. They help that website remember information about your visit, which can both make it easier to visit the site again and make the site more useful to you. Other technologies, including unique identifiers used to identify a browser, app or device, pixels, and local storage, can also be used for these purposes.
Our use of cookies and similar technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies for several purposes, including:
Storing your preferences and settings
Settings that enable our products to operate correctly or that maintain your preferences over time may be stored on your device. For example, if you enter your city or postcode to get information on our website, we may store that data in a cookie so that you will see the relevant local information when you return to the site. We also save preferences, such as language, browser and multimedia player settings, so those do not have to be reset each time you return to the site.
Sign-in and authentication
When you sign into a website using your account credentials, we store a unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your device. This cookie allows you to move from page to page within the site without having to sign in again on each page. You can also save your sign-in information so you do not have to sign in each time you return to the site.
Security
We use cookies to detect fraud and abuse of our websites and services.
Storing information you provide to a website
When you provide information on our websites, we store the data in a cookie to remember the information you have added.
Analytics
In order to provide our products, we may use cookies and other identifiers to gather usage and performance data. For example, we use cookies to count the number of unique visitors to a web page or service and to develop other statistics about the operations of our services. This includes cookies from us and from third-party analytics providers.
Performance
We use cookies for load balancing to ensure that websites remain up and running.
Cookies used throughout this website:
Strictly Necessary cookies
| Cookie key | Domain | Path | Cookie type | Expiration | Description |
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| _GRECAPTCHA | www.google.com | /recaptcha | Third-party | 6 months | Google reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis. |
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Performance cookies
| Cookie key | Domain | Path | Cookie type | Expiration | Description |
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| _ga_RG3ZFDQPEW | .orwellcarpentry.com | / | First-party | 1 year 1 month | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. |
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_ga_RG3ZFDQPEW cookie was first detected on: https://www.orwellcarpentry.com/
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| _ga | .orwellcarpentry.com | / | First-party | 1 year 1 month | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. |
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Targeting cookies
| Cookie key | Domain | Path | Cookie type | Expiration | Description |
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| test_cookie | .doubleclick.net | / | Third-party | 15 minutes | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies. |
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test_cookie cookie was first detected on: https://www.orwellcarpentry.com/
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| IDE | .doubleclick.net | / | Third-party | 1 year | This cookie is set by Doubleclick and carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
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IDE cookie was first detected on: https://www.orwellcarpentry.com/
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| _gcl_au | .orwellcarpentry.com | / | First-party | 3 months | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services |
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_gcl_au cookie was first detected on: https://www.orwellcarpentry.com/
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Unclassified cookies
| Cookie key | Domain | Path | Cookie type | Expiration | Description |
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| elfsight_viewed_recently | core.service.elfsight.com | / | Third-party | 11 seconds | |
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elfsight_viewed_recently cookie was first detected on: https://www.orwellcarpentry.com/
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| [abcdef0123456789]{32} | www.orwellcarpentry.com | / | First-party | Session | |
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[abcdef0123456789]{32} cookie was first detected on: https://www.orwellcarpentry.com/
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