Cookies

This site uses Cookie Control which is used by the ICO (the body that governs cookie policy). You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the cookie icon. You can then adjust the sliders to On or Off. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.

A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded onto a computer or mobile device when the user accesses a website. It allows the website to recognise that user’s device and store some information about the user’s preferences or past actions (this all depends on the cookie).

You can find out what cookies are used by clicking on the padlock in the address bar. Creative Stream sites can utilise (but are not limited to) cookies for social media, language translation, payment portals, subscriptions, form submissions, and interactive maps. Our sites also use analytic cookies to provide you with better content, and cookies to monitor the smooth running of the site.

As per the ICO cookie page: To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org

CookieControl
Cookie Control is the widget on this site that enables you to make choices about cookies and is used by the ICO (the body that governs cookie policy). This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on this site, and where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s selection will be stored in this cookie.

Google Language, Maps, and Analytics
This cookie is used to remember any selection a user has made about language on this site, using the Google language selector, so that the site will be shown in their chosen language when returning to the site.

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website, and to ensure it performs correctly. We use this information to measure overall performance, improve your site experience and improve the design of our site. These cookies don’t collect any information that could identify you - all information collected by these cookies is anonymous.

Analytics can store anonymised information such as

• how you get to the site
• the pages you visit on the site
• how long you spent on each page
• and what you click on while visiting the site

Rejecting these cookies prevents sites from improving their content and ultimately providing a better service.

• _ga to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier, and expires in 2 years (source)
• _ga_ Used to persist session state and expires in 2 years (source)
• _gali is used by Google Analytics to determine which links on a page are being clicked (source)
• _gat_* is used to limit the number of user requests in order to maintain a website’s performance, and it expires after 1 day. It does not store any user information (source)
• _gid to store and update a unique value for each page visited, and expires after 1 day (source)

The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data and Google's advertising and measurement cookies

Embedded content (e.g Youtube, Vimeo, Social Media, and Maps)
There may be content that is embedded in a Creative Stream site from a third party. When this happens we don't have control over the embedded content cookies from these external websites, and you'll need to take action yourself. You can go to the Creative Stream site to find out more about how to take control. The owners of this site may embed videos from their own 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, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. Read more at YouTube's embedding video information page

• PREF Expires after eight months (used to store information such as your preferred page configuration and playback preferences like explicit autoplay choices, shuffle content, and player size)
• VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE expires 6 months after a user’s last use (used to show personalized content such as recommendations on YouTube based on past views and searches)
• remote_sid expires at the end of your session
• NID expires 6 months after a user’s last use (used to show Google ads in Google services for signed-out users)

Vimeo cookies: vuid
If Vimeo is used on this site, you should know that their embeddable video player uses first-party cookies that they consider essential to the video player experience. They state they do not use third-party analytics or advertising cookies when their video player appears on a third-party website, unless (i) the website visitor is logged in to their Vimeo account and (ii) the user who embedded the video has not implemented the DNT Parameter (source)

PHPSESSID
The PHPSESSID cookie is native to PHP and enables websites to provide functions across pages. It is used to establish a user session and to pass state data via a temporary cookie, which is commonly referred to as a session cookie (expires when you close your browser). (source)

Generated by the 3rd party accessibility tool, UserWay.

• _cq_duid
• _cq_suid

They said "In regards to cookies, we don't store any personal data, the widget only saves the session information from the user's preferences" e.g. A blind person who had the screen reader active.
Someone with visual issues who set the font to be bigger.

"Strictly necessary" cookies are classified as cookies that must be present for the website to provide the basic functions of the website. They are essential to be able to access features of the website and could include signing in, adding items to a cart, or e-billing. They always need to be on.

In order to provide users with more choice and control over online advertising browsers have introduced new privacy features over the years. These vary greatly – some browsers allow users to block third-party cookies, which are the ones typically used for advertising purposes. Others also take aim at first-party cookies, which help deliver a good user experience but can also be used for online tracking.

If you use a shared computer (e.g. at work) then you may have individual profiles on it. Your profile may have different browser settings to that of a colleague who uses the same computer.