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Cookies and how they Benefit You
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you'd expect
- Save you having to login every time you visit the site
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Offer you "free" services/content (thanks to advertising)
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
- Continuously improve our website for you
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
More about our Cookies
Our own cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Determining if you are logged in or not
- Remembering your search settings
- Allowing you to add comments to our site
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There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Third party functions
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:
- YouTube - Privacy Policy powers the videos on our site
- Google - Privacy Policy
- See all of our cookies in a list at the bottom of this page.
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.
Social Website Cookies
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Cookies are set by:
- Twitter - Privacy Policy
- Facebook - Privacy Policy
- See a Detailed list of the Cookies we use at the bottom of this text.
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called Analytics programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
Advertising Cookies
Cookies are widely used in online advertising. Neither us, advertisers or our advertising partners can gain personally identifiable information from these cookies. We only work with advertising partners who work to accepted privacy standards such as http://www.youronlinechoices.com/goodpractice.html
You can learn more about online advertising at http://www.youronlinechoices.com . You can opt-out of almost all advertising cookies at http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices although we would prefer that you didn´t as ultimately adverts help keep much of the internet free. It is also worth noting that opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you won't see adverts, just simply that they won't be tailored to you any longer.
We use:
- Google Adsense/DoubleClick Policy:
http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/
& https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/1348695?hl=en
BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING
We use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by:
FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
BING - https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads
Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.
> Global Advertising Consent Preferences
(Removing consent does not mean you will stop seeing ads. It means that the company you withdraw consent from will no longer use your data for online purposes.)
Banner Adverts
We fund our site by showing adverts as you browse our site. These adverts are usually managed by a partner specialising in providing adverts for multiple sites. Invariably these partners place cookies to collect anonymous data about the websites you visits so they can personalise the adverts to you, ensure that you don't see the same adverts too frequently and ultimately report to advertisers on which adverts are working.
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our's and a large proportion of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites
It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called "spyware". Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.
The cookie information text on this site was derived from content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing http://www.attacat.co.uk/, a marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar information for your own website you can use their free cookie audit tool.
Cookies used on AshtarCommandCrew.net
- Aweber.com – Email service
- Types of cookies used by Google
- Google Adsense (Advertising)
- YouTube
- Facebook (Social media & advertising)
- ClickMeter - Link tracking
- ConvertBox (pop-up tool)
| Cookie | Name | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Share This cookie | __unam | This cookie is set by the third-party Share This service, which makes it easy to share content. The cookie tracks click-stream activity. This cookie expires after 6 months. |
| Migration dialog dismissed cookie | _mLdK 2 | This cookie records the number of times that the user closed the dialog box showing payment options. This is shown only on very old networks. This cookie is deleted when the user closes the browser. |
| Google Analytics cookies | _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmv, _utmz | These cookies, from Google Analytics, gather data about how visitors use the network. This information is used to improve the network. This cookie expires after 1 year. |
| Authentication-type cookie | auth-type 1 | This cookie remembers the name of the third-party provider that the user used to sign in, e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Google. The next time they sign in, this provider is presented to them as their initial choice. This cookie expires after 1 year. |
| Authentication-username cookie | auth-user-name 1 | This cookie remembers the username for the third-party provider that the user used to sign in. The sign-in page will greet them using this name. This cookie expires after 1 year. |
| Performance logger cookie | bzplcm | This cookie records the current time. It is used to measure page-load speed, for performance analysis. This cookie is deleted when the user closes the browser. |
| Chat local-storage update cookie | chatWriteTimestamp | This cookie stores the time of the last write to browser local storage. It is used to keep browser tabs in sync, when chat is open in multiple browser tabs. This cookie is deleted when the user closes the browser. |
| Convertro Analytics cookies | cvo_sid1, cvo_tid1 | These cookies, from Convertro Analytics, gather data about how visitors use the network. This information is used to improve the network. |
| Gift message cookie | giftMessage | This cookie is temporary storage for a message that the user sent with their gift. This cookie expires after 10 seconds. |
| Invite tab cookie | inviteTab 2 | This cookie stores the user's preference for the currently selected tab on the Invitations page. This cookie is deleted when the user closes the browser. |
| Last visit cookie | lastVisit 1 | This cookie stores the time of the user's last visit to the site. This cookie expires after 1 year. |
| Like cookie | like 2 | This cookie is temporary storage for data that identifies what the user is liking. It is stored in the cookie temporarily if the user is signed out and needs to go to the sign-in page. After the user signs in, we read the cookie and complete the like action. This cookie is deleted when the user closes the browser. |
| Mobile header size cookie | mobile-h1-size | This cookie stores the optimum font size for the header on mobile pages. This cookie expires after 3 years. |
| Mobile v2 redirection override cookie | mobileRedirectsEnabled1 | This cookie records whether the user has chosen to view desktop pages instead of mobile v2 pages, even when browsing using a mobile device. This cookie expires after 1 year. |
| Commission Junction cookie | ning_cj | This cookie indicates that the network creator was referred to Ning via Commission Junction. This cookie expires after 2 months. |
| First touch cookie | ning_ft | This cookie contains a copy of the information in one of the Google Analytics cookies (_utmz). It contains information about how the network creator arrived at Ning (e.g., via a search engine). This cookie expires after 4 months. |
| Ning session cookie | ning_session | This cookie identifies page views belonging to the same session. This "session ID" is logged and is used for debugging purposes. This cookie expires after 1 hour. |
| Ning visitor cookie | ning_visitor | This cookie identifies page views belonging to the same web browser. This "visitor cookie" is logged and is used for debugging purposes. |
| Chat sound lock cookie | soundLockTimestamp | This cookie stores the current time every couple of seconds. It is used to ensure that, when chat is open in multiple tabs, only one of the tabs will make a sound when a new chat message comes in. This cookie is deleted when the user closes the browser. |
| Media uploader cookie | using_bulk_uploader_... | This cookie stores the user's preference for whether to upload files using the simple uploader or the Flash uploader. |
| Chat volume cookie | volumeSetting | This cookie stores the user's preference for the volume level for chat. This cookie is deleted when the user closes the browser. |
| Cookies-enabled test cookie | xg_cookie_check | This cookie is used to test whether the browser accepts cookies. It is used on the sign-in and sign-up pages. This cookie is deleted when the user closes the browser. |
| External profile cookie | xg_ep | This cookie stores data from a sign-up provider (e.g., Facebook) which is then used to prepopulate some fields on our sign-up form. This cookie expires after 1 day. |
| External profile initialization vector cookie | xg_ep_iv | This cookie contains data that is used to decrypt the external profile cookie. This cookie expires after 1 day. |
| Paid access signup cookie | xg_pas | This cookie indicates that the user is in the middle of signing up, and heading to PayPal. This cookie expires after 1 year. |
| Paywall email sent cookie | xg_paywallContact | This cookie indicates that the user just sent an email to the network administrators with a question about paywall membership. This cookie is deleted when the user closes the browser. |
| Combined persistent cookie | xg_pc | This cookie is a combination of other cookie values that need to remain after the user's browser is closed. The values are documented in this table. This cookie expires after 1 year. |
| Sign-in-problem email sent cookie | xg_psi | This cookie indicates that the user just sent an email reporting that they had a problem signing in. This cookie is deleted when the user closes the browser. |
| Mobile v1 redirection override cookie | xg_redirect_override | This cookie records whether the user has chosen to view desktop pages instead of mobile v1 pages, even when browsing using a mobile device. This cookie is deleted when the user closes the browser. |
| Combined session cookie | xg_sc | This cookie is a combination of other cookie values that are automatically cleared after the user's browser is closed. The values are documented in this table. This cookie is deleted when the user closes the browser. |
| Gift cookie | xg_sgi | This cookie temporarily stores information about a gift that the user is purchasing from the site. It is used for the success message shown after the purchase. This cookie is deleted when the user closes the browser. |
| Profile attribute cookie | xg_sip | This cookie is a temporary storage for data from the sign-up form. This cookie expires after 1 day. |
| Profile attribute initialization vector cookie | xg_sip_iv | This cookie contains data that is used to decrypt the profile attribute cookie. This cookie expires after 1 day. |
| Sign-up cookie | xg_su | This cookie indicates that the user successfully completed the sign-up form. This cookie expires after 1 day. |
| Sign-up initialization vector cookie | xg_su_iv | This cookie contains data that is used to decrypt the sign-up cookie. This cookie expires after 1 day. |
| Tweet cookie | xg_tw | This cookie is temporary storage for the user's Twitter tweet while they go off to twitter.com to authorize that this network can post the tweet for them. This cookie is deleted when the user closes the browser. |
| User info cookie | xgdi | This cookie contains basic user demographic information. This cookie expires after 1 year. |
| Sign-out cookie | xgl | This cookie indicates that the user just signed out. It is used to display a message to the user after they sign out. This cookie is deleted when the user closes the browser. |
| Page-size cookie | xn_approval_page_size | This cookie stores the user's preference for number of items per page on pages in which they approve or reject moderated content. |
| Ning ID cookie | xn_id_ | This cookie is set during sign-in, and serves as your identity on the network, and indicates that you are signed in. This cookie expires after 30 days. |
| Flow-tracking cookie | xn_track | This cookie records completed and incomplete attempts at going through a sequence of pages (a "flow"), to help us to improve the pages. This cookie expires after 30 minutes. |
| How Google uses cookies in advertising | Advertising cookies on this website | http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/ & https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/1348695?hl=en |
| Types of cookies used by Google | General Info | http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/ |
| Tynt | Tynt inserts the page URL when your content is pasted into emails and social sites. | http://www.tynt.com/privacy_policy.php Tynt Opt Out: http://www.tynt.com/opt_out.php |
| Aweber | Email Service | http://www.aweber.com/privacy.htm |
| Add This | Social | http://www.addthis.com/privacy/terms-of-service |
| LinkWithin | LinkWithin is a blog widget that appears under each post, linking to related stories from your blog archive. | http://www.linkwithin.com/privacy |
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