COOKIES POLICY

Information about our use of cookies

Our website uses cookies to enable us to better understand how we can improve our offering and content. Our cookies marked as “necessary” collect generic information that doesn’t distinguish you from other users. We’ve marked it as “necessary” because it enables the normal functions of our website. Our cookies marked as “analytics” help us create content and produce offerings that would interest you and our community members with similar interests to you. They do distinguish you from other users of our website by enabling us to identify things like the country from which you’re visiting us, the browser you use and whether your device is a mobile or desktop.

The information collected is used in accordance with our Privacy Policy only and you are fully entitled to withdraw consent for the use of these cookies. Cookies help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

We use the following cookies:

  • 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. They 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.
  • Analytics Cookies. These include functionality and targeting cookies. Functionality cookies 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 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 use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

  • PHPSESSID – used to keep track of variables on the server so we can load user specific content – session only (essential)
  • essential-cookies – used to remember the users choice to only use essential cookies – 90 days (essential)
  • cookies-accepted – used to remember the users choice to allow all cookies – 90 days (essential)
  • lho-popup – used to remember if the user has seen and closed the join mailing list popup – 30 days (essential)
  • footer-chat – used to remember the state of the footer chat (open / closed) – 1 day
  • nlcrc – used the first time a user logs in to store where to redirect them to, ie if they log in from the cart or checkout they will be redirected back there at login, if they log in from another page they will be redirected to their account – session
  • readposts – used to store the blog posts a user has read so that we can show the “new” badge on ones they haven’t.
  • wordpress_sec_XXXXXX – used to store security info for logged in wordpress users – session (essential)
  • wordpress_logged_in_XXXXX – used to store login session for wordpress users – session (essential)
  • woocommerce_items_in_cart – used to store cart items across page views – session (essential)
  • wp_woocommerce_session_XXXXX – used to store woocommerce session info – session (essential)
  • tribe-event-tickets-plus-meta-hash – used to store attendee and ticket info before purchase – session (essential)
  • mailchimp_landing_site – used to track the site mailchimp requests are coming from, should only be sent to mailchimp if hte user signs up ie implying they accept – 30 days
  • _ga – used to distinguish users.
  • _ga_<contrainer-id> – used to persist session state.
  • IDE – used to personalize ads.
  • NID – contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences.
  • SOCS – used by Google to store your cookies choices for 13 months.
  • 1P_JAR – collects statistics on website usage and measures conversions.
  • AEC – used to detect spam, fraud and abuse to help ensure advertisers are not incorrectly charged for fraudulent or otherwise invalid impressions or clicks.

    Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies

    You 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 site.

    With the exception of some necessary cookies, all cookies will expire after 12 months.

    For more information about this or anything else, please reach out to us on [email protected]