This is the Cookie Policy for Flocktory, accessible on www.flocktory.com

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use them and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

• Login related cookies

We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

• Site preferences cookies

In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

• This site uses Google Analytics (GA) which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

• From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
• This site uses Optimizely for establishing A/B tests. Optimizely is a trusted service for optimizing website with testing. These cookies may track the version of our website that you have experienced and ensure a consistent presentation of the website over the course of the tests that we run.For more information on Optimizely cookies, please visit the official Optimizely website.

Cookie used by www.flocktory.com

__flocktory-web_session2      Identifier of the user (Flocktory)

flocktory-uuid                             Identifier of the user (Flocktory)

__flocktory-auth                       Login token (Flocktory)

mltlngg_language                     Language preference (Flocktory)

__ga                                            statistical identifier for analytics (GA)

__gid                                           statistical identifier for analytics (GA)

__gat                                           analytical cookie (GA)

__gaz                                          analytical cookie (GA)

optimizelyBuckets                    Identifier for an A/B test scenario (Optimizely)

optimizelyEndUserId              Identifier of the user for A/B tests (Optimizely)

optimizelySegments                Identifier for test segments for A/B tests (Optimizly)

More Information

We hope this has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need it or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.

If require more information then you can contact us at: dataprivacy@flocktory.com