Cookie Policy
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.
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your computer (or other electronic device) when you access our website.
We use cookies on this website to:
recognise you whenever you visit this website (this speeds up your access to the website as you do not have to log in each time);
obtain information about your preferences, online movements and use of the internet;
carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content, products and services and to help us better understand our visitor requirements and interests;
target our marketing and advertising campaigns more effectively by providing interest-based advertisements that are personalised to your interests; and
make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable.
The information we obtain from our use of cookies will not usually contain your personal data. Although we may obtain information about your computer or other electronic device such as your IP address, your browser and/or other internet log information, this will not usually identify you personally. In certain circumstances we may collect personal information about you—but only where you voluntarily provide it (eg by completing an online form).
We use the following types of cookies:
• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
• Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• 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.
Apart from in the case of strictly necessary cookies, we will need your consent in order to use cookies on this website.
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 another website, such as where we have adverts on our website or use Facebook pixels so that we can show you relevant content from us when you are on Facebook.
We use third party cookies on our website and details of these are included in the table below.
More detail about our cookies
The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:
Wandering to Wonder
crumb - This cookie is set by websites that uses SquareSpace platform. The cookie is used to prevent cross-site request forgery (CSRF). Expiry, after the session.
ss_cvt - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site. Expiry, 30 minutes.
ss_cookieAllowed - Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies. Expiry 30 days.
ss_cvr - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site. Expiry 2 years.
Mailer Lite
_uetvid - to store and track visits across websites Expiry 16 days.
_hjid - to store a unique user ID. Expiry 1 year
_fbp - is used by the conversion linker for click information to store and track visits across website. Expiry 3 months.
_gcl_au - for Google Adsense to store and track conversions. Expiry 1 year
OptanonAlertBoxClosed - This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. This persistent cookie expires after one year.
OptanonConsent - This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust, allowing the site to identify whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of cookies. This persistent cookie expires after one year.
_gac_UA-11257413-19 - Google Adsense to store and track conversions. Persistent.
_ga - Google Analytics to store and count page views. Expiry 2 years.
Square space
R_gbd - To track visitors and sales from websites participating in Impact Radius affiliate marketplace. Expires at the end of session
IR_9084 - To track what cookies are used by websites. Expires at the end of session.
_uetvid - Bing Ads to store and track visits across websites. Expiry 16 days.
LPVID - This cookie provides a visitor ID as identified in LiveEngage, and it identifies a browser as long as the cookie is not deleted. Expiry 2 years
__zlcmid - To allow our live chat tool to work across multiple pages of our website. Expiry 1 year.
SS_SESSION_ID - These cookies are Used by Square Space to identify unique visitors to our website. Expiry end of session.
SS_MID - To identify unique visitors to our website. Expiry 10 years.
ss_lastid - Helps identify if you have visited the website before. Expiry end of session.
SS_ANALYTICS_ID - To identify unique visitors to our website. Expiry 3 months.
Google Analytics and services
__Secure-3PSIDCC - Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. Expiry 2 years
SIDCC - Security cookie to protect a user’s data from unauthorised access. Persistent.
__Secure-1PSIDCC - Cookie required to use website options and services. Expiry 1 year.
__Secure-3PAPISID - This cookies are used to deliver more relevant ads for you and your interests. Expiry 2 years
SAPISID - Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. Expiry 1 year.
APISID - Download certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. Expiry 2 years
__Secure-3PSID - Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. Expiry 2 years.
__Secure-1PSID - Cookie required to use website options and services. Expiry 1 year.
SID - Used for security purposes to store digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time which allows Google to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorised parties. This can also be used for targeting purposes to show relevant & personalised ad content. Expiry 2 years.
__Secure-1PAPISID - Used to store information about how you use the website and any advertising that you may have seen before visiting this website, in addition to being used to help customise advertising on Google properties by remembering your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser's ads or search results and your visits to an advertisers website. Expiry 2 years.
HSID - Preferences cookie. Used to store preferences in a unique Google ID to remember your information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on. These preferences can be used for optimised &/or personalised advertising on Google networks Expiry 1 year.
SSID - Targeting cookie. Cookie used by Google Analytics that provides an aggregate analysis of Website visitors. Expiry 1 year.
NID - Targeting cookie. This cookie sets a unique ID to remember your preferences and other information such as website statistics and track conversion rates. Expiry 1 year.
OTZ - used by Google Analytics that provides an aggregate analysis of Website visitors. Expiry 1 month.
1P_JAR - Google uses these cookies, based on recent searches and interactions, to customise ads on Google websites. Expires at end of session.
SEARCH_SAMESITE - SameSite prevents the browser from sending this cookie along with cross-site requests. The main goal is mitigate the risk of cross-origin information leakage. It also provides some protection against crosssite request forgery attacks. Expiry 6 months.
How to turn off cookies or alter settings
You can alter your cookie preferences at any time by [set out how they may do this eg ‘going to the cookie consent mechanism and changing the relevant setting to ‘off’].
If you do not want to accept cookies, you can also change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of this website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the Information Commissioner’s webpage on cookies: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/.