Information about our use of cookies
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. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
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:
Mobile Theme
Subscriptions
EU Cookie Law Banner
Cookies set for registered users
Jetpack
Jetpack Protect
Single Sign On
Stats
Registered, but not connected
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
- 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/performance cookies. 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.
- 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.
| Cookie Name | Duration | Purpose |
| comment_author_{HASH} | 347 days | Remembers the value entered into the comment form’s name field. Specific to the site from which it is set. This cookie is set by the core WordPress software for commenting purposes. |
| comment_author_email_{HASH} | 347 days | Remembers the value entered into the comment form’s email field. Specific to the site from which it is set. This cookie is set by the core WordPress software for commenting purposes. |
| comment_author_url_{HASH} | 347 days | Remembers the value entered into the comment form’s URL field. Specific to the site from which it is set. This cookie is set by the core WordPress software for commenting purposes |
| Cookie Name | Duration | Purpose |
| akm_mobile | 3.5 days | Tracking whether or not a user wishes to view the mobile version of a site. |
| Cookie Name | Duration | Purpose |
| jetpack_comments_subscribe_ | 347 days | Used to store the state of the post and comment subscription checkboxes. |
| jetpack_blog_subscribe_ | 347 days | As above. |
| Cookie Name | Duration | Purpose |
| eucookielaw | 30 days | Used to store the state of acceptance to the EU Cookie Law banner. |
| Cookie Name | Duration | Purpose |
| jetpackstate | session | Set to pass state message back to the user across requests about module activation. |
| Cookie Name | Duration | Purpose |
| jpp_math_pass | 1 day | Remembers if a user has successfully completed a math captcha to prove that they’re a real human. |
| Cookie Name | Duration | Purpose |
| jetpack_sso_redirect_to | 1 hour | Allows for redirect URLs to be stored, necessary for Single Sign On. |
| jetpack_sso_remember_me | 1 hour | Stores ‘me’ values locally, rather than requiring them to be passed to WordPress.com every time for Single Sign On. |
| jetpack_sso_wpcom_name_ | 1 week or cleared after completing login | Stores the WordPress.com display name to show on login page. |
| jetpack_sso_wpcom_gravatar_ | 1 week or cleared after completing login | Stores the Gravatar url to show on login page. |
| jetpack_sso_original_request | 1 hour | Stores the URL of where the original SSO request was made from. |
| jetpack_sso_nonce | 10 minutes | Used for nonce verification. |
| Cookie Name | Duration | Purpose |
| stnojs | 2 days | The stats module may set an admin-area cookie if the user needs to view stats reports without javascript turned on. |
| Cookie Name | Duration | Purpose |
| tk_ai | session | Used as an anonymous ID if the logged in user is not connected with WordPress.com. |