Use of Cookies by The Vegan Society
Cookies are small text files that are 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 site.
All cookies are created on first page load and remain persistent throughout the site visit.
The table below explains the cookies used and why.
Cookie
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Name
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Purpose
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More Information
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osCsid
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osCoomerce session cookie
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Used by OSCommerce to keep track of users as they browse the site to ensure the store knows who the user is so and which is their basket & account (if no session cookie is present, user is treated as a guest; if no language or currency exists, use the default values).
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Used only for http://shop.vegansociety.com/
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Google Analytics
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_utma
_utmb
_utmc
_utmz
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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. Google Analytics collects anonymous information such as pages you visit on this site, the browser and operating system you use and time spent viewing pages. The purpose of this information is to help us improve the site for future visitors.
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Click here for an overview of privacy at Google
Used by both
http://shop.vegansociety.com/
and
http://www.vegansociety.com/
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Twitter
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guest_id
original_referer
_twitter_sess
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Used by Twitter to provide micro-blogging feed and referrer.
|
http://www.vegansociety.com/
|
FaceBook
|
Lsd
Datr
|
The Datr cookie is set when a browser accesses facebook.com (such as using the Like button), it helps Facebook identify suspicious login activity and keep users safe.
The Lsd cookie contains a random value that is set when a Facebook user logs out in order to prevent cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.
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http://www.vegansociety.com/
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Ektron
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EkAnalytics
|
Anonymous user type identifier for the Ektron Analytics features. Although this cookie is written it is not used as The Vegan Society use Google Analytics (see above).
|
http://www.vegansociety.com/
|
Ektron
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ECM
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Control the user session to the content management system, manage logged in user identity and site wide configuration such as language and culture codes.
|
http://www.vegansociety.com/
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Ektron
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EktGUID
|
Anonymous identifier for the Ektron Analytics features. Although this cookie is written it is not used as The Vegan Society use Google Analytics (see above).
|
http://www.vegansociety.com/
|
ASP.Net
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ASP.NET_SessionId
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This is used by Microsoft's ASP.NET architecture. ASP.NET needs to be able to track a session ID for each user so that it can map the user to Session state information on the server.
|
http://www.vegansociety.com/
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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 www.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.