Cookie policy
The law
This Cookie Policy has been created to comply with The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2016.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed in your computer’s browser to store your preferences.
What we use them for
Village Water’s website, like most websites, use cookies to enhance our users’ experience and aims to increase the website’s performance.
Types of cookies
We have both First – and Third – party cookies operating on this site.
First-party cookies are used to save information to help us make your online experience quicker and more personalised.
The Third-party cookies are cookies created via external sources used to keep track of page views, video usage, map requests and tracking donations.
Any information collected via cookies are used internally to make your online experience better. No information will be sold to third parties.
Our own cookies
We use cookies to:
- save your cookie preferences
- link donations made through our site with their source campaign
Third-party cookies
Our site, like most websites, includes
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Necessary | |||
| viewed_cookie_policy | 0 | 11 months | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | 0 | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | 0 | 11 months | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | 0 | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | 0 | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | 0 | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other". |
| wp_woocommerce_session_3500eaad7372830540dc6d422f4d0bf8 | 2 days | Contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. | |
| PHPSESSID | Session | This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users' unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookie and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed. | |
| __stripe_mid | 1 year | This cookie is set by Stripe payment gateway. This cookie is used to enable payment on the website without storing any payment information on a server. | |
| __stripe_sid | 30 minutes | This cookie is set by Stripe payment gateway. This cookie is used to enable payment on the website without storing any payment information on a server. | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | 0 | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies are used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | 0 | 11 months | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | 0 | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | 0 | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | 0 | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other". |
| viewed_cookie_policy | 0 | 11 months | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| Analytics | |||
| _ga | 2 years | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | |
| _gid | 1 day | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. | |
| _gat_UA-41529218-1 | 1 minute | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | |
| CONSENT | 16 years, 5 months, 9 days, 16 hours | These cookies are set via embedded YouTube videos. They register anonymous statistical data on for example how many times the video is displayed and what settings are used for playback. No sensitive data is collected unless you log in to your Google account, in that case your choices are linked with your account, for example if you click “like” on a video. | |
| Advertisement | |||
| YSC | session | This cookie is set by YouTube and is used to track the views of embedded videos. | |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 5 months, 27 days | This cookie is set by YouTube and is used to track the views of embedded videos. | |
| _fbp | 3 months | This cookie is set by YouTube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website. | |
| _fbp | 3 months | This cookie is set by Facebook to deliver advertisement when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting this website. | |
| fr | 3 months | The cookie is set by Facebook to show relevant advertisements to the users and measure and improve the advertisements. The cookie also tracks the behaviour of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. | |
| test_cookie | 15 minutes | This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. | |
| IDE | 1 year, 24 days | Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. | |
| NID | 6 months | This cookie is used to a profile based on user's interest and display personalised ads to the users. | |
| Others | |||
| yt-remote-device-id | never | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | never | No description available. | |
| give_source | session | No description available. | |
| give_medium | session | No description available. | |
| give_campaign | session | No description available. | |
| give_content | session | No description available. | |
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties
Visitor statistics cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
We use Google Analytics for our visitor statistics.
It is possible to opt-out of these cookies by choosing the opt-out option in our cookie notice when you first visit our website.
How to control cookies from your browser
Cookies used on this site
Amendments to the cookie policy
If any user prefers not to agree to the terms set out within the amended cookie policy, the user should stop using the website as continuing to use the site would be taken as a form of acceptance. The notification will give a time period of 30 days until the new changes become effective.
Useful links
- Salesforce – https://www.salesforce.com/company/privacy/
- Zapier – https://zapier.com/privacy/
- Stripe – https://stripe.com/gb/privacy