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 it 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.
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.
The below list details the cookies used in our website
Functional cookies
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Cookie
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Description
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cf_clearance
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Set by Cloudflare after a security/bot check passes, allowing the visitor to continue browsing without being re-challenged.
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wfwaf-authcookie-[hash]
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Set by the Wordfence security plugin to identify logged-in administrators so they can bypass firewall rules while managing the site.
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wordpress_logged_in_[hash]
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Confirms a user is logged into WordPress and keeps them authenticated as they move between pages.
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wordpress_sec_[hash]
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A secure authentication cookie used by WordPress to verify a logged-in user’s identity on secure (HTTPS) admin pages.
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wordpress_test_cookie
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A temporary cookie WordPress sets to check whether the visitor’s browser has cookies enabled.
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wp-settings-1
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Stores a logged-in user’s personal WordPress admin dashboard preferences, such as layout choices.
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wp-settings-time-1
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Records when the wp-settings-1 preferences were last updated, so the site knows when to refresh them.
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wp_lang
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Remembers the selected language for the WordPress admin interface.
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wpe-auth
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Set by WP Engine (hosting) to authenticate and manage logged-in users on the hosting platform’s WordPress environment.
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WP_DATA_USER_1
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Stores user-specific data used by a WordPress plugin to personalise the admin/editing experience.
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WP_PREFERENCES_USER_1
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Stores a logged-in user’s saved preferences within the WordPress admin area.
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acf
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Set by the Advanced Custom Fields plugin to support its functionality while editing site content in the WordPress admin.
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Analytics cookies
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Cookie
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Description
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_ga
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Set by Google Analytics (via Google Tag Manager) to distinguish unique visitors and calculate visitor, session, and campaign data for site analytics.
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ga[container-id]
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Set by Google Analytics 4 (via GTM) to persist session state and track visitor engagement for that specific GA4 property.
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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
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users. When you submit data through to a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence. 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 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.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including Facebook and Twitter will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
More information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need 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. However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us at: info@rnc.ac.uk