Cookies are used in various forms by most websites and are usually harmless.

What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard-drive by websites to make your experience more efficient, and provide you with more functionality. For example a cookie can help a website to remember that you are logged in when processing an eCommerce transaction, or may be used to remember your language preferences.

Cookies may be session or persistent. Session cookies are deleted after you have left our website and Persistent cookies remain to help you with your experience next time you return.

What are cookies used for?

We have broken up the types of cookies that most websites use into the following categories:

1. Necessary. Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

2. Preferences. Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.

3. Statistics. Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously. Statistical cookies may benefit the ongoing improvements of the website and increased efficiency/relevance of any related marketing campaigns.

4. Marketing. Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.

What cookies are being used on Frank & Bloom?

Below is a list of the cookies being used on Frank & Bloom and what they do:

Google Related (Analytics) Cookies

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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use this data to create reports and to help us to improve the way in which our visitors use our website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors, where visitors have come to, the website from and the pages they visited. To stop the collection of information being collected by google analytics you can opt out.

WordPress Cookies

catAccCookies – This cookie is used to manage a cookie consent plugin to record the end user’s acceptance that the site uses cookies. Duration: 30 days

wfwaf-authcookie-  This cookie is set by the WordPress security plugin “Wordfence”. It is used to authenticate user’s login request. Duration: 1 day

wordpress_sec – This cookie is used for authentication over SSL, it stores your authentication details and it is delivered for /wp-admin and /wp-content/plugins. Duration: 15 days

wordpress_test_cookie –  This cookie is used to check whether your web browser is set to allow, or reject cookies. Duration: End of browser session

wp-settings-{user_id} – Used to persist a user’s wp-admin configuration. Duration: 1 year

wp-settings-time-{user} – Time at which wp-settings-{user} was set. Duration: 1 year

AddToAny Cookies

uvc – A 3rd party cookie from the AddToAny share service at a2a.lockerz.com used to track usage of the Addthis.com service. It allows a user to share a webpage with many social sites.

__cfduid – Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to speed up page load times. It is used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. It does not contain any user identification information.

Can I block cookies?

Your browser will usually allow you to alter and control the type of cookies that you will allow websites to store.  If you are concerned about our cookies being stored on your computer by this website or other, we strongly recommend that you check your browser for further information. If you choose to block cookies some sections of this website might not be available to you.

The details of Third Party cookies may change from time to time, however we will endeavor to keep this document up to date and accurate.

This Cookie Policy is correct and accurate as of the 25th May 2018