Cookies
Overview
Sailors’ Society use cookies to provide core functionality, remember your preferences, collect anonymous analytics and enable embedded media. We split cookies into strictly necessary, analytics and additional categories. Where cookies are provided by external services, they may collect data in line with their own privacy policies.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. When you visit our website, a small data file is created specific to your device, stored in a cookie and sent to your browser, which then sends the information back to the server. The cookie will be placed on your device and. can be used to recognise your device if you visit our website again. This will help the Society authenticate your device when you visit again, remember your preferences and deliver the content that is most relevant to your preferences
How we use cookies
Sailors’ Society uses cookies to enhance the online experience of all visitors to our website. They help us identify which pages and/or products are the most important to our visitors and play a key role in helping us to enhance the usability and performance of our site. The use of these cookies is essential for the website to work at its best.
Do Cookies Collect Personal Data?
Yes, cookies can collect personal data, depending on how they are used and configured. We have provided you with information above about when, how and why your personal data might be collected when you visit our website and cookies are placed on your device. You can find more information about how and why we process personal data in our Privacy Notice.
1. Strictly necessary cookies
Strictly necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. These cookies are needed to make the site work and to remember choices you make (for example your cookie settings). They cannot be switched off via our cookie tool.
| Cookie name(s) | Provider/domain | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| moove_gdpr_popup | Sailors‑Society (own domain) | Saves your cookie preferences so that the cookie banner does not appear on every visit. The Moove GDPR plugin confirms this cookie stores a visitor’s settings. | 1 year |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Sailors‑Society (own domain) | WordPress uses this test cookie to check whether your browser supports. | Deleted when you close your browser |
| WordPress_[hash] | Sailors‑Society (own domain) | Stores authentication details for administrators. It is set after login and ensures that you remain logged in while navigating the admin area. | Session (expires when the browser is closed) |
| wordpress_logged_in_[hash] | Sailors‑Society (own domain) | Indicates when a user is logged in and which account you are using. It allows WordPress to display the correct interface and user preferences. | Session |
| wp‑settings‑{time}-{UID}, wp‑settings‑{UID} | Sailors‑Society (own domain) | WordPress sets these cookies to remember each authenticated user’s admin interface and editing settings. | 1 year |
| wp_lang | Sailors‑Society (own domain) | Stores the selected language key during login so that WordPress delivers the interface in your chosen language. | Session |
| comment_author_[HASH], comment_author_email_[HASH], comment_author_url_[HASH] | Sailors‑Society (own domain) | When visitors leave a comment on our blog, these cookies remember the commenter’s name, email address and website so that you don’t have to re‑enter the details next time. | 1 year |
| __cf_bm | Cloudflare / .sailors‑society.org | Cloudflare sets this cookie to distinguish between humans and bots. It helps protect our site against malicious traffic and is required for the bot‑management solution. | 30 minutes |
2. Analytics cookies (third party)
These cookies allow us to measure how visitors use our site so that we can improve its performance. We use Google Analytics; the service anonymises IP addresses and does not record personal information.
When you visit a website, the website may allow a number of third-parties, such as CookieHub, Hotjar, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn to set cookies on your device to help the owner of the website better understand who their users are and how they use the website. Enabling the following:
- To measure the website’s effectiveness.
- Improve the content and user experience.
- Make the website more useful and relevant to the users interested.
- Promote services and resources more useful online.
- Make adverts you see more relevant to you.
- Limit the number of times you see promotional advertising.
They can be used to collect anonymous usage and visitor behaviour information which may include IP address, operating system, browser type, pages visited, links you click on and services you selected. These cookies help to understand demographics and interests of the user.
Some of the service on a website such as Facebook, X or LinkedIn, may place cookies on your computer to enable their service to work properly or to measure usage of their service.
| Cookie name(s) | Provider/domain | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics / .sailors‑society.org | Distinguishes unique visitors by assigning a randomly generated identifier. Used to calculate visitor, session and campaign statistics. | 2 years |
| _gid | Google Analytics / .sailors‑society.org | Records a unique identifier that groups user behaviour within a single day, allowing us to understand how visitors navigate our site. | 24 hours |
| _gat / gat_gtag_UA* | Google Analytics / .sailors‑society.org | Throttles the rate of requests so that high‑traffic websites do not overload Google’s servers. | 1 minute |
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Google Analytics 4 / .sailors‑society.org | Used to persist session state in GA4 properties | 2 years |
3. Additional / media cookies (YouTube)
These cookies enable the playback of embedded YouTube videos. They may also collect data about your interaction with the video to improve features and provide targeted advertising across Google services.
| Cookie name(s) | Provider/domain | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Secure‑ROLLOUT_TOKEN | YouTube / .youtube.com | Used by YouTube to manage the phased rollout of new features and updates. This cookie helps assign users to test groups so that YouTube can introduce changes gradually. | ~6 months |
| YSC | YouTube / .youtube.com | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of which videos a visitor has seen and verify the Google account when videos are played. | Session |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | YouTube / .youtube.com | Measures bandwidth and stores user and device preferences. It is also used, along with other identifiers, to deliver targeted advertising. | ~6 months |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | YouTube / .youtube.com | Stores the visitor’s cookie consent state for YouTube. It ensures that YouTube honours your privacy choices when videos are embedded. | ~6 months |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | YouTube / .youtube.com | Remembers the last search result clicked so that future results can be optimised. | Persistent (no expiry) |
| yt‑remote-device-id, yt‑remote-connected-devices | YouTube / .youtube.com | Store the user’s device preferences and the list of paired devices for video playback across sessions. | Persistent |
| yt‑remote‑session-app, yt‑remote‑cast‑installed, yt‑remote‑session‑name, yt‑remote‑fast‑check‑period | YouTube / .youtube.com | Manage settings related to the embedded YouTube player such as session state, casting and syncing across devices. | Session |
How you are in control of your cookies
We recommend that you leave cookies turned on in order to optimise the efficiency of your experience on our website.
You have the right to choose whether to accept cookies when you visit our website and you can also control the use of cookies through your browser settings. But please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer work smoothly, function correctly for you or be fully accessible.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information about cookies, how to see what cookies have been set and how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage, delete or filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as: www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out how to manage cookies on some popular browsers follow these links:
- Google Chrome and to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites: Google Analytics opt-outs
- Microsoft Edge
- Microsoft internet explorer
- Safari
- Mozilla Firefox
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.
How long will cookies remain on my computer or mobile device?
The length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. See the section above on how to control cookies and for more information on removing them before they expire.
Social Buttons
Websites may feature embedded ‘share’ buttons to enable users to easily share articles with their friends through a number of popular social networks. These sites may set a cookie when you are also logged in to their service. You should check the third-party website for more information.
Cookies review
We regularly review the cookies used on our website to ensure transparency and compliance. This cookies list is updated at least every 12 months, or more frequently if changes are made to the services we use or as required by law.
This cookie inventory reflects the cookies in use as of 7th August 2025.
