What is a cookie?
A “cookie” is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.
Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns with regards how you are using our website. This helps us to develop and improve our website as well as products and / or services in response to what you might need or want.
Types of cookie
Cookies are either:
- Session cookies: These are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser. They usually store an anonymous session ID, which allows you to browse a website without having to log in to each page. However, they do not collect any personal data from your computer;
or
- Persistent cookies: A persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again. We use persistent cookies for Google Analytics.
Cookies can also be categorised as follows:
- Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and / or service, and therefore cannot be turned off. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.
- Performance cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.
- Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested. E.g. viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.
List of cookies used on this website
This table sets out details of the cookies used on http://www.moreorganised.com, as identified by a http://www.CookieBot.com scan on 24 May 2018.
| Cookie name | Purpose | Provider | Expiry | Category |
| wc_cart_hash_# | Contains information about the WooCommerce shopping cart and ensuring cart functionality works properly | WooCommerce | Session | Necessary |
| wc_fragments_# | Contains information about the WooCommerce shopping cart and ensuring cart functionality works properly | WooCommerce | Session | Necessary |
_ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | Google Analytics | 2 years | Performance |
| _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | Google Analytics | Session | Performance |
| _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | Google Analytics | Session | Performance |
| Collect | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitors device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | Google Analytics | Session | Marketing |
| tk_lr | Collection of internal metrics for user activity, used to improve user experience. | WordPress | I year | Performance |
| tk_or | Collection of internal metrics for user activity, used to improve user experience. | WordPress | 5 years | Performance |
| tk_r3d | Collection of internal metrics for user activity, used to improve user experience. | WordPress | 2 days | Performance |
| tk_tc | Collection of internal metrics for user activity, used to improve user experience. | WordPress <!-WGCCxxx –> | Session | Performance |
Accepting and blocking cookies
There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies. You can usually do this in your browser settings. You can block cookies at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable.
You should also be aware that clearing all cookies from your browser will also delete any cookies that are storing your preferences. For example, whether you have accepted cookies on a website or any cookies that are blocking other cookies.
You can find more detailed information about cookies and adjusting your browser settings by visiting http://www.allaboutcookies.org
This Cookie Policy was last updated on 24 May 2018.