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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.
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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 allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page but they do not collect any personal data from your computer; or
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Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and/or service. 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 such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.
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.
First and third-party cookies: First-party cookies are cookies set by our website. Third-party cookies are cookies on our website that are set by a website other than our website, such as where we have adverts on our website or use Facebook pixels so that we can show relevant content to Facebook users when they are on Facebook.
We use third-party cookies on our website and these are included in the table below.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie TitleCookie Name | Purpose |
| cookieyes-consent | CookieYes sets this cookie to remember users’ consent preferences so that their preferences are respected on their subsequent visits to this site. It does not collect or store any personal information of the site visitors. This cookie is essential for our site. It is a necessary cookie and is required to enable the basic features of this site. It expires after 1 year. |
| JSESSIONID | The JSESSIONID cookie is used by New Relic to store a session identifier so that New Relic can monitor session counts for an application. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser. This cookie is essential for our site. It is a necessary cookie required to enable the basic features of this site. |
| __cf_bm | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management for the viewing of a Vimeo video. This cookie operates for 30 minutes. This cookie is essential for our site. It is a functional cookie to help perform certain functionalities. |
| Non-Essential Cookies | |
| Universal Analytics (Google) _ga _ga_LTSRWFRB4P (We don’t currently use these ones.) _gali _gat _gid | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. To estimate our audience size and usage pattern to help us improve this website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. It is really helpful for us to see how many visitors we have and where we come from so we can develop the reach of the Sunflower Effect Courses. These cookies expire after 2 years |
| YouTube cookies CONSENT YSC VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE yt-remote-device-id yt-remote-connected-devices yt.innertube::requests yt.innertube::nextId | We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page. CONSENT is an analytics cookie. YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. It expires after 2 years. YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. It expires at the end of the session. VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE is a cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. It expires after 5 months 27 days. yt-remote-connected-devices YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. It never expires. yt.innertube::requests This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. It never expires. yt.innertube::nextId This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. It never expires. |
| _fbp | This cookie is set by Facebook to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting our website. It is particularly designed to create a custom audience and to match the kind of visitor that visits our website – so that we can reach the people on Facebook who would potentially be interested in the Sunflower Effect Courses. We don’t do very much Facebook advertising but when we do it makes our advertising more effective. This cookie expires after 3 months |
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Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after as shown in the table above.
If you have any questions about the cookies that we use, feel free to email us at claire at sunflowereffect.com
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