Yogscast Cookie Policy
Last Updated: [16/10/2020]
We (meaning Yogscast Ltd) use technologies on our website and online services (which we'll call the ‘Services’) to collect information that helps us improve your online experience. We refer to these technologies, which include cookies, collectively as “cookies.” This policy explains the different types of cookies used on the Services and how you can control them.
We hope that this policy helps you understand and feel more confident about our use of cookies. If you have any further queries, please contact us at contact@yogscast.com.
Please also see our Privacy Policy at [https://www.yogscast.com/privacy-policy] and our Terms of Service at [https://www.yogscast.com/terms-of-service.]
1. WHAT IS A COOKIE?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device. They are widely used in order to make websites or other online services work or to be better or more efficient. They can do this because websites and other online services can read and write these files, enabling them to recognise you and remember important information that will make your use of them more convenient (e.g. by remembering your user preferences).
2. WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?
Below we list the different types of cookies we may use on the Services.
Essential Cookies. These cookies are essential to the operation of our service in order to enable you to move around it and to use its features. Without these cookies services you have asked for, such as accessing secure areas of a website or paid for content, cannot be provided. These cookies are essential for using the service and therefore cannot be turned off without severely affecting your use of it.
Essential cookies on the Services may include:
Cookie name & Information
_ab - Used in connection with access to admin.
_orig_referrer - Used in connection with the storefront shopping cart and tracks landing pages.
_secure_session_id - Used in connection with navigation through the storefront.
Cart - Used in connection with the storefront shopping cart.
cart_sig - Used in connection with checkout.
cart_ts - Used in connection with checkout.
checkout_token - Used in connection with checkout.
Secret - Used in connection with checkout.
Secure_customer_sig - Used in connection with customer login.
storefront_digest - Used in connection with customer login.
_landing_page - Tracks landing pages.
_s - Shopify analytics.
_shopify_fs - Shopify analytics.
_shopify_s - Shopify analytics.
_shopify_sa_p - Shopify analytics relating to marketing and referrals.
_shopify_uniq - Shopify analytics.
_shopify_visit - Shopify analytics.
_shopify_y - Shopify analytics.
_y - Shopify analytics.
tracked_start_checkout - Shopify analytics relating to checkout.
RecentRedirect - Prevents redirect loops if a site has customer URL redirects.
squarespace-popup-overlay - Prevent the promotional pop-up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it.
squarespace-announcement-bar - Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it.
Test - Investigate if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors.
Performance Cookies. Performance cookies, which often include analytics cookies, collect information about your use of this Services and enable us to improve the way it works. For example, performance cookies show us which are the most frequently visited pages on our website, allow us to see the overall patterns of usage on the Services, help us record any difficulties you have with the Services and show us whether our advertising is effective or not. We also use cookies to help you navigate within our website and travel back to pages.
Performance cookies on this Services may include:
Cookie name
Further information
ss_cid - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site.
ss_cvr - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site.
ss_cvisit - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site.
ss_cvt - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site.
ss_cpsvisit - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site.
ss_cookieAllowed - Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing Analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies.
You can find out how to opt out of these cookies here: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001264507-About-the-cookies-Squarespace-uses.
Functionality Cookies. In some circumstances, we may use functionality cookies. Functionality cookies allow us to remember the choices you make on the Services and to provide enhanced and more personalized features, such as customising a certain webpage, remembering if we have asked you to participate in a promotion and for other services you request, like watching a video or commenting on a blog. All of these features help us to improve your visit to the Services.
3. CHANGES TO THIS COOKIE POLICY
We may change this Cookie Policy at any time: please take a look at the “LAST UPDATED” date at the top of this policy to see when it was last revised. Any amendments to this Cookie Policy will come into effect immediately if you are a business or 30 days after this "LAST UPDATED" date if you are a consumer. If you do not agree to those changes, then unfortunately you must stop using the Services.