Cookie Policy
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. [We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.]
You can find more information about the individual cookies we may use and the purposes for which we may use them in the table below. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list and that this information may change; it may not be accurate at the time of reading. For an up to date list of all cookies used, please email me at drhannahryan@proton.me and I will run an up-to-date scan at your request. I aim to respond to such requests within fourteen working days, although in some cases it may take longer.
Cookie Title / Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Woo Commerce wc_cart_hash_# wc_fragments_# | This cookie is essential to our site and enables you to make purchases from our shop by allowing you to store items in an electronic shopping basket. |
Statistics and marketing from quantserve.com Cref Mc | Contains data on user navigation, interaction and time spent on the website and its sub-pages - This data is used to optimise the relevance of advertisements and for statistical purposes Cref expires after 13 months Mc expires after 13 months |
Giphy _qca (1 year) _ga (2 years) _gat (1 day) _gid (1 day) | These cookies help us understand what our website visitors are using our site for a. The information collected in anonymous and helps us provide a better service. _qca expires after 1 year _ga expires after 2 years _gat expires after 1 day _gid expires after 1 day |
Statistical cookies Em_cdn_uid (1 year) | Measures the number of times an embedded element from a third party |
Marketing analytics from Amazon/Alexa Artk.gif (session) | This cookie is used to collect information on user behaviour which is sent |
Marketing analytics from Giphy _asc (1 day) _auc (1 year) | These cookies collect information on your behaviour on our site in order to target advertisements. _asc expires after 1 day _auc expires after 1 year |
Marketing analytics from Google Ads/ga-audiences IDE (doubleclick.net) | Used by google to re-engage visitors that are likely to become customers (ie. Show you adverts from this site or other relevant ones based on your shopping behaviour.) Ads/ga-audiences - expires at the end of your session IDE (doubleclick.net) - expires after 1 year |
Universal Analytics (Google) _ga _gali _gat _gid | 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 an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. |
Application firewall cookie _zjc* | This cookie is set by a third-party web application firewall from Dyn to help maintain the security and performance of our website. Some traffic may receive a challenge to check if it is genuine and if it is, a cookie is set so the user isn’t challenged again. |
YouTube cookies Yt-remote-cast-installed* | This cookie is set by a third-party web application firewall from Dyn to help maintain the security and performance of our website. Some traffic may receive a challenge to check if it is genuine and if it is, a cookie is set so the user isn’t challenged again. |
Facebook cookies Tr Fr _fbp | Tr - expires at the end of your session Fr - expires after 3 months Facebook uses cookies on other websites and apps that use the Facebook Products (including the Like button or other Facebook Technologies). Cookies enable Facebook to offer the Facebook Products to you and to understand the information we receive about you, including information about your use of other websites and apps, whether or not you are registered or logged in. This policy explains how Facebook use cookies and the choices you have. Except as otherwise stated in this policy, the Data Policy will apply to Facebook’s processing |
Please note that third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
You can alter your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the cookie pop-up and setting the sliders to off. Please refresh your page to ensure that the new settings have taken effect.
You can also control your cookie settings through your web browser.
You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
If you have any questions about the cookies that we use, feel free to email us at drhannahryan@proton.me.