Cookies

Cookies are small data files that allow a website to collect and store a range of data on your desktop computer, laptop or mobile device. Cookies help us to provide important features and functionality on our website and to help us understand which parts of the site are regularly visited (or not) so we can improve the online experience.

Portsoy Community Enterprise’s use of cookies is governed by our Privacy Policy

Cookie Types

When visiting our website you may have the following types of cookie placed on your computer:

Session Cookie

This cookie lasts for the duration of your visit. It is destroyed when you close the browser or navigate away from our site.

Persistent Cookie

These cookies are set on your first visit to our website. They last longer than the duration of your visit and are used to help us understand which parts of our site are regularly visited.  They also store user preferences, settings and information for future visits to provide convenient and rapid access to familiar objects, which enhances your experience.

Tracking Cookies

These cookies are used by us to track repeat visitors to our sites. We do this so we can build up a picture of how visitors use our site and how best to improve our service.

Cookies we use

The following table lists the cookies we use on

Cookie Name Expiry Type Provider Use
_cfduid 1 Year Persistent cloudflare.com Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic.
wc_cart_created Session Session stbfportsoy.org Necessary for the shopping cart functionality on the website
Woocommerce_cart_hash Session Session stbfportsoy.org Necessary for the shopping cart functionality on the website to remember the chosen products - This also allows the website to promote related products to the visitor, based on the content of the shopping cart.
wp_woocommerce_session_ Session Session stbfportsoy.org Necessart for the shopping cart functionality. Contains a unique code for each customer so that it know where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. No personal informaton is stored
_ga 2 Years Tracking analytics.google.com Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
_gat 1 Day Tracking analytics.google.com Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate
_gid 1 Day Tracking analytics.google.com Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
GPS 1 Day Tracking youtube.com Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographial GPS location.
IDE 1 Year Tracking doubleclick.net Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the websites user's action after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present trageted ads to the user.
PREF 8 Months Tracking youtube.com Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites.
r/collect Session Tracking doubleclick.net This cookie is used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. It tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.
test_cookie 1 Day Persistent doubleclick.net Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE 179 Days Persistent youtube.com Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.
YSC Session Tracking youtube.com Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
yt.innertube::nextId Persistent Tracking youtube.com Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
yt.innertube::requests Persistent Tracking youtube.com Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
yt-remote-cast-installed Persistent Persistent youtube.com Stores the user's video player preferences using the embedded YouTube video
yt-remote-device-id Persistent Persistent youtube.com Stores the user's video player preferences using the embedded YouTube video
yt-remote-fast-check-period Session Session youtube.com Stores the user's video player preferences using the embedded YouTube video
yt-remote-session-app Session Session youtube.com Stores the user's video player preferences using the embedded YouTube video
yt-remote-session-name Session Session youtube.com Stores the user's video player preferences using the embedded YouTube video