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Cookies

Protecting your online privacy

Didcot Counselling is committed to protecting you and any data that I collect about you online. This section tells you how I use cookies, why, and how this allows me to improve my service. It also tells you how you can manage cookies stored on your computer or device.

By using my website you agree that this Cookies Policy applies along with any other terms and conditions which may apply.

I reserve the right to make changes to this Cookies Policy which become effective immediately. Your continued use of my website means that you agree to any such changes.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters stored on your computer or mobile device. These files uniquely identify your browser or device.

Cookies allow a site or service to know if your computer or device has visited that site or service before. Cookies can help understand how people use the site or service. They can help navigate between pages, remember preferences, and improve your browsing experience. Cookies can also help ensure marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests.

What types of cookies do I use?

The four most common categories of cookies are: “Strictly Necessary”, “Performance”, “Functionality”, and “Targeting”. I only use strictly necessary cookies on the site.

You can find out more about each cookie category below.

Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookies are essential. They enable you to move around the site or service and use its features, such as accessing logged in or secure areas.

Performance Cookies. These cookies collect information about how you have used the site or service. For example, they may store your unique username, placing less strain on our infrastructure. These cookies may also allow us to know that you have logged in so that we can serve you fresher content than a user who has never logged in. We also use cookies to track site usage and experiment with new features and changes on the site. The information collected helps us to improve how the site works.

Functionality Cookies. These cookies allow us to remember how you’re logged in, when you logged in or out, the state or history of Service tools you’ve used. These cookies also allow us to tailor the site to provide enhanced features and content for you. They can also remember how you’ve customised the site in other ways. The information these cookies collect may be anonymous. They are not used to track your browsing activity on other sites or services.

Targeting Cookies. These cookies can remember that your device has visited a site or service. They may also be able to track your device’s browsing activity on other sites or services. This information may be shared with other organisations, such as advertisers or advertising networks.

Cookies I use

These are the main cookies we use on our website, and why we use them.

First and third party cookies

First-party cookies are cookies that belong to Didcot Counselling. Third-party cookies may be placed on your device by someone providing a service for Didcot Counselling. For example, this could be to help us understand how our site is being used.

Strictly necessary cookies

I use the following essential cookies.

Cookie
Description
Expiry
apbct_cookies_test
CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on comments and forms and act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site.
session
apbct_headless
CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on the site's comments/forms, and to act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site.
session
apbct_page_hits
CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on comments and forms and act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site.
session
apbct_site_landing_ts
CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on comments and forms and act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site.
session
apbct_site_referer
This cookie is placed by CleanTalk Spam Protect to prevent spam and to store the referrer page address which led the user to the website.
3 days
apbct_timestamp
CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on comments and forms and act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site.
session
apbct_urls
This cookie is placed by CleanTalk Spam Protect to prevent spam and to store the addresses (urls) visited on the website.
3 days
ct_checked_emails
CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on the site's comments/forms, and to act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site.
session
ct_checkjs
CleanTalk–Used to prevent spam on our comments and forms and acts as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for this site.
never
ct_fkp_timestamp
CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on the site's comments/forms, and to act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site.
session
ct_has_scrolled
CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on the site's comments/forms, and to act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site.
session
ct_pointer_data
CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on the site's comments/forms, and to act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site.
session
ct_ps_timestamp
CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on the site's comments/forms, and to act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site.
session
ct_screen_info
CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on the site's comments/forms, and to act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site.
session
ct_sfw_pass_key
CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on comments and forms and act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site.
1 month
ct_timezone
CleanTalk–Used to prevent spam on our comments and forms and acts as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for this site.
session
icwp-wpsf-notbot
The Shield Security WordPress plugin uses this to record that the user has been reported as not being a bot.
5 minutes
shield-notbot-nonce
The Shield Security WordPress plugin uses this to record that the user has been reported as not being a bot.
1 minute

Functional Cookies

We do not use any functional cookies.

Performance Cookies

We do not use any performance cookies.

Analytics Cookies

We do not use any analytics cookies.

How to control and delete cookies

The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. If you set your browser to disable cookies you may not be able to access certain parts of our site. Also, other parts of our site may not work properly.

For more information, we suggest consulting the Help section of your browser. You can also look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.