The UK has now implemented (as of 26 May 2011) the EU e-Privacy directive that requires website owners to make users aware that their site uses cookies. While the ICO has not issued much in way of technical detail, what is clear is that they still expect website owners to take action to become compliant. Over the coming months we will be working on developing the best methods for us obtain your consent without it ruining your experience of our website.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small harmless text files placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website. The Cookie acts as an identification card for the visiting site. They enable your browser to exchange information with the website server, and can be used for essential purposes (such as remembering you’ve logged in to a site or what product you have put into your shopping cart), or optional purposes (such as for website analytics purposes, such as how many visitors came to the site).
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, visit All About Cookies. However, please note that if you choose to disable cookies, then parts of this website may not function correctly and it will severely harm our business, we will no longer be able to track visits to our website, see what the most popular pages are or devices looking at our website, it will be the equivalent of running a sweet shop, blindfolded with no stock-taking facility available.
What cookies do Secondary1st use?
The table below list the cookies we use and will set regardless of your acceptance of our cookie message, these cookies are seen as essential to the running of the website, without them, desktop, mobile and tablet devices will not display the images properly.
| Cookie Function | Cookie Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| WordPress Login | wordpress_[hash]wordpress_logged_in_[hash] |
WordPress is the Content Management System (CMS) that runs this website. It uses a “session cookie” when logging in and out and is essential for proper website operation. User data is all anonymous. |
| WordPress Admin UI | wp-settings-[UID] |
WordPress also cookies to to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. User data is all anonymous. |
TinyMCE_content_size |
WSYIWYG editor | |
PHPSESSID |
Used by some plugins that the site uses |
The following table lists any cookies that are seen as non-essential to the workings of the website.
| Cookie Function | Cookie Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Blog/Post Comments | comment_authorcomment_author_emailcomment_author_url |
If you leave a comment on the website e.g. on a page, article or blog post, then a cookie may be stored to ‘remember’ your email address for the next time you post (should you choose the “remember me” option). All cookies starting with comment_author deal with this |
| Social Networking | k (Twitter) |
We integrate our site in to various social networking sites and use various plugins to do this to integrate with Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+, to make it easy for you to share content you find on our site. These services may save some cookies. |
| Google Analytics | __utma__utmb__utmc__utmz |
We use Google Analytics to allow us to analyse the traffic to our site and to review a number of statistics regarding our visitors. (Further information on the data they collect is available here). |
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