Updated: March 2019
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.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers sent to your browser by a website you visit and is stored by your browser. It allows the website or a third-party to recognise you and make your next visit easier and the website more useful to you.
Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
How the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust uses cookies
When you use and access the website, we may place a number of cookies in your web browser.
We use the following cookies:
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:
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Name of cookie: GPS
Purpose: Used by YouTube to track device type
Duration: 1 day
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Name of cookie: YSC
Purpose: Used by YouTube (Google) for storing user preferences and other unspecified purposes - https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Duration: session
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Name of cookie: _dswt_session
Purpose: Used to authenticate the user and allow access to their account area
Duration: 30 days
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Name of cookie: rack.session
Purpose: Session management, by default expires in 30 days, unless persistent sessions is disabled
Duration: 30 days
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Name of cookie: _dswt_current_currency
Purpose: Track the currency being used for the user, allows switching currencies in development
Duration: session
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Name of cookie: _dswt_order_token
Purpose: Find a user’s most recent order each time they return to the site
Duration: 1 year
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Name of cookie: _dswt_site_id
Purpose: Sets a user to a particular site to allow administrators to switch sites and view content as the user does
Duration: session
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Name of cookie: _dswt_completed_order_token
Purpose: When an order completes, we store a reference to its token so that the ‘complete’ stage can be displayed
Duration: session
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Name of cookie: _cfduid
Purpose: Used by CloudFlare to identify trusted web traffic. It does not correspond to any user id in the web application, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable information
Duration: 2 years
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Name of cookie: _ga
Purpose: Tracking cookie for Google analytics – used to distinguish users (all information is anonymous)
Duration: 2 years
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Name of cookie: _gat
Purpose: Tracking cookie for Google analytics. Used to throttle request rate
Duration: 10 mins
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Name of cookie: _gid
Purpose: Performance cookie with Google analytics
Duration: session
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How to manage cookies
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However, if you use your browser settings to delete or block cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our website and some pages may not display properly.
More about cookies
You can learn more about cookies on the following website: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
Changes to our cookie policy
We may update our use of cookies from time to time and consequently we may update this policy. We recommend that you check this policy regularly.