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What types of cookies does our site use?
Almost all are categorized as strictly necessary cookies, which are required for the basic functions of the website.
We use WordPress as a content management platform. WordPress may set the following cookies:
wordpress_logged_in – to store logged in users
wordpress_sec_* – to provide protection against hackers, store account details
wordpress_test_cookie – to read if cookies can be placed
wp-settings-* – to personalize the admin interface and influence the appearance of the main site
wp-lang – to store language settings
wpEmojiSettingsSupports – to determine if the user’s browser can display emojis properly
We use Stripe for payment processing. Stripe sets the following cookies to make it possible to process payments and prevent fraud:
_stripe_mid, _stripe_sid, m
We use LiteSpeed to cache pages so that the site becomes more responsive. LiteSpeed sets the following cookie:
_lscache_vary – to store whether you are logged into the site and what your user role is
Your cookie preferences are also stored in a cookie:
cookies_and_content_security_policy – to store your cookie preferences
We use Vimeo for video hosting. Vimeo may set the following necessary cookies:
__cf_bm – to distinguish between humans and bots
player – to save the user’s preferences
Vimeo also saves an analytics cookie:
vuid – to store the user’s usage history
A few pages also host Youtube videos, which set a number of Youtube, Google and Doubleclick cookies, many of them analytics cookies:
1P_JAR (optimizes Google Ads), AEC, IDE, NID, OTZ, SOCS, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE (tracks visitors for ad delivery), VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA (stores cookie consent state) and YSC (Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen).