This Cookies Policy sets out the basis on which we, Janet Thomson T/A the Placebo Diet, use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website, https://theplacebodiet.co.uk/ (our website). This Cookies Policy is effective from 25 May 2018.
‘Essential’ cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website.
‘Non-essential’ cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so. For information on the difference between essential and non-essential cookies, see the section below entitled About cookies.
For information on how you consent and how you can withdraw your consent to us placing non-essential cookies and other technologies on your computer or device, see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies.
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About cookies
- used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or
- strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.
Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.
Cookies can be classified as either ‘session’ or ‘persistent’, depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser.Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.
First party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by our website domain.
Third party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains.
If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.List of cookies used
Name of cookie | Type of cookie | First or third party | Session or persistent | Timescale | Purpose |
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__cfduid | essential | Third party | Persistent | 1 Year | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic.v |
AWSELB | essential | Third party | Session | Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times. | |
CookieConsent | essential | First Party | Persistent | 1 Year | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain |
PHPSESSIID | essential | First Party | Session | Preserves use session state across page requests | |
wordpress_test_cookie | essential | First Party | Session | Test cookie to check that cookies are enabled in the browser | |
_ga | analytical / statistics | First Party | Persistent | 2 Years | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website |
_gid | analytical / statistics | First Party | Session | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | |
_dc_gtm_UA-# | analytical / statistics | First Party | Session | Used by Google Tag Manager to control the loading of a Google Analytics script tag. | |
@@History/@@scroll|# | analytical / statistics | First Party | Persistent | 6 months | HTML local storage |
@@History/@@scroll|# | analytical / statistics | Third Party | Session | HTML local storage | |
tuuid | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Persistent | 3 months | Registers whether or not the user has consented to the use of cookies. |
tuuid_last_update | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Persistent | 3 months | tracks the last update from the tuuid ID record |
um | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Persistent | 3 months | |
umeh | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Persistent | 3 months | |
tuuid | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Persistent | 1 Year | Registers whether or not the user has consented to the use of cookies. |
tuuid_lu | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Persistent | 1 Year | |
c | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Persistent | 1 Year | |
CMPRO | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Persistent | 3 months | |
CMST | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Session | Collects anonymous data related to the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads. | |
CMDD | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Session | Collects anonymous data related to the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads. | |
CMRUM3 | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Persistent | 1 Year | Collects anonymous data related to the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads. |
CMSC | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Session | Collects anonymous data related to the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads. | |
CMID | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Persistent | 1 Year | Collects anonymous data related to the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads. |
CMPS | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Persistent | 3 months | Collects anonymous data related to the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads. |
IDE | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Persistent | 2 Years | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. |
test_cookie | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Session | Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. | |
impression.php/# | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Session | Used by Facebook to register impressions on pages with the Facebook login button. | |
ljt_reader | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Persistent | 1 Year | Collects data related to reader interests, context, demographics and other information on behalf of the Lijit platform with the purpose of finding interested users on websites with related content. |
i | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Persistent | 1 Year | Registers anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user’s movement on websites that use the same ad network. |
KRTBCOOKIE_# | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Persistent | 3 months | Registers a unique ID that identifies the user’s device during return visits across websites that use the same ad network. The ID is used to allow targeted ads. |
PugT | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Persistent | 29 days | |
PUBMDCID | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Persistent | 3 months | Registers a unique ID that identifies the user’s device during return visits across websites that use the same ad network. The ID is used to allow targeted ads. |
__stid | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Persistent | 1 Year | Registers a unique ID that identifies the user’s device for return visits. |
__uis | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Session | ||
__uir_bw | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Session | ||
__uin_bw | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Persistent | 44 days | |
uuid | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Persistent | 10 Years | |
_hjIncludedInSample | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Session | Determines if the user’s navigation should be registered in a certain statistical place holder. | |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Persistent | 179 days | Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. |
YSC | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Session | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | |
GPS | targeting / marketing | Third Party | Session | ||
_hjShownFeedbackMessage | essential | Third Party | Session | Saves admin users status as to whether they’ve seen the message regarding feedback | |
WLM_TEST_COOKIE | essential | Third Party | Session | test cookie to ensure that cookies are working in browser. |
Essential cookies
- Third Party persistent cookie called __cfduid which is used to identify trusted web traffic. This cookie persists for 1 year.
- Third party session cookie used to distribute heavy website traffic across several servers to optimise response times. This cookie is called: AWSELB
- First party persistent cookies to recognise whether you have accepted the use of cookies on our website. These cookies are: CookieConsent. This cookie expires after 1 year.
- First Party session cookie used to authenticate logged in users. This cookie is called PHPSESSID
- First and third party session cookies used to test whether cookies are active in the browser. These are: wordpress_test_cookie, WLM_TEST_COOKIE
Non-essential cookies
- Analytical/statistics
- Targeting/marketing
Other technologies
How to opt in or out
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies Legal basis for processing: we process the information we gather from the use of web beacons in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interest: Web Beacons in emails:analysing the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of web beacons, including profiling, please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy which is available here: https://theplacebodiet.co.uk/privacy-policy/.How to opt in or out
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies Legal basis for processing: consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Consent: you give your consent to the purposes for which we process your information using Facebook Pixel by by ticking the box to indicate acceptance of the use of advertising cookies in our cookie tool.. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of Facebook Pixel please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: https://theplacebodiet.co.uk/privacy-policy/.How to accept or reject cookies
There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies . Some of the main methods of doing so are described below:
- You are welcome to block the use of some or all of the cookies we use on our website. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable.
- You should also be aware that clearing all cookies from your browser will also delete any cookies that are storing your preferences, for example, whether you have accepted cookies on a website or any cookies that are blocking other cookies.
You can find more detailed information about cookies and adjusting your browser settings by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org
- unticking the button entitled ‘Also use Google Account activity and information to personalize ads on these websites and apps and store that data in your Google Account’; and
- switching the ‘Ads Personalisation’ setting off (i.e. by ensuring the switch at the top of the page is set to the left/grey and not the right/blue).
Disconnect for Facebook
You can install a browser add-on tool called ‘Disconnect Facebook pixel and FB tracking’. This will stop Facebook tracking you on third party websites. You can install the too here:European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance Tool
You can opt out of Facebook and other companies that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe from showing you interest based ads by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com, selecting your country, clicking ‘Your Ad Choices’, then locating Facebook (and any other companies you want to block) and selecting the ‘Off’ option.Copyright, credit and logo
This Cookies Policy is based on a template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy. For further information, please visit https://gdprprivacypolicy.org
The copyright in this Cookies Policy is either owned by, or licensed to, us and is protected by copyright laws around the world and copyright protection software. All intellectual property rights in this document are reserved. Where we display the GDPR Privacy Policy logo on our website, this is used to indicate that we have adopted a privacy policy template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy as the basis for this Privacy Policy.