Understanding Our Cookie Policy and Your Privacy

Cookie Policy for Great Dane Guides

Effective Date: 01/04/2024

This Cookie Policy explains how Great Dane Guides (“we”, “us”, “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies to recognise you when you visit our website at https://www.greatdaneguides.com (“Website”). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Why Do We Use Cookies?

We use cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance their experience on our Website. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for analytics, advertising, and other purposes.

The Cookies We Use

Essential Cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.

  • NID: Used by Google to store user preferences and information.
  • SEARCH_SAMESITE: Used for security purposes to prevent CSRF attacks.
  • XSRF-TOKEN: Security token to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery.
  • SSID, HSID, APISID, SID: Used by Google for security and user authentication.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

These cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our Website and how users use our Website. The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor.

  • _ga, _ga_2LHCD2PPWD: Google Analytics cookies used to distinguish users.
  • _gid: Used to distinguish users and track site usage.

Advertising Cookies

These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.

  • AEC, DV: Used by Google AdSense to provide ad delivery or retargeting.
  • SAPISID, SIDCC: Used by Google for advertising purposes.
  • _GRECAPTCHA: Used by Google reCAPTCHA for spam protection.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website but are non-essential to their use.

  • cookie_consent: Stores the user’s cookie consent state.
  • user_cookie_consent: Stores user preferences regarding cookie consent.
  • great_dane_guides_session: Maintains user session state.

Your Choices Regarding Cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by clicking on the appropriate opt-out links provided in the cookie banner.

You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Website, though your access to some functionality and areas of our Website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at ollie@olliebichard.co.uk.