Cookies
Hello. We use cookies to track visits to our website - we store no personal details. This allows us to analyse how our website performs; and thus how to improve it!
The below shows all cookies used on Know the Romans and allows you to edit your preferences.
Performance
| Name | Domain | Expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | .knowtheromans.co.uk | 2 years | This cookie name is asssociated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. |
| _gid | .knowtheromans.co.uk | 1 day | This cookie name is asssociated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. |
| _gat | .knowtheromans.co.uk | 46 seconds | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes. |
Targeting
| Name | Domain | Expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| test_cookie | .doubleclick.net | 14 minutes | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies. |
| uvc | .addthis.com | 1 year | Tracks how often a user interacts with AddThis |
| loc | .addthis.com | 1 year | Stores the visitors geolocation to record location of sharer |
| IDE | .doubleclick.net | 1 year | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| DSID | .doubleclick.net | 1 hour | This cookie is set to note your specific user identity. It contains a hashed/encrypted unique ID. |
| GPS | .youtube.com | 30 minutes | |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | .youtube.com | 6 months | This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites;it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface. |
| YSC | .youtube.com | Session | This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. |
| ad-id | .amazon-adsystem.com | 8 months | This cookie is generally provided by amazon-adsystem.com for advertising purposes. |
Functionality
| Name | Domain | Expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| __atuvc | www.knowtheromans.co.uk | 1 year | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count. |
| __atuvs | www.knowtheromans.co.uk | 29 minutes | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. This is believed to be a new cookie from AddThis which is not yet documented, but has been categorised on the assumption it serves a similar purpose to other cookies set by the service. |