Cookie Policy
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Use of cookies by Lightley.com
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The following explains the cookies we use and why.
Google Analytics Cookies
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form:
A – stores each user’s amount of visits, and the time of the first visit, the previous visit, and the current visit. B & C – are used to check approximately how long you stay on a site: when a visit starts, and approximately ends
Z – stores where a visitor came from (search engine, search keyword, link). To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
| Name | Expires |
| _utma | 2 years |
| _utmb | Less than a day |
| _utmc | End of Session (Date not set) |
| _utmz | 6 months |
Facebook Cookies
This website carries embedded ‘share’ Facebook buttons to enable users of the site to easily share articles with their friends through Facebook.
| Name | Expires |
| Datr | 2 years |
| lsd | End of Session (Date not set) |
| reg_ext_ref | End of Session (Date not set) |
| reg_fb_gate | End of Session (Date not set) |
| reg_fb_ref | End of Session (Date not set) |
Google Plus One Cookies
This website carries embedded ‘share’ Google Plus One buttons to enable users of the site to easily share articles with their friends through Google. Expiration ranges from end of session to 2 years. See Google’s privacy policy for more information.
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Twitter Cookies
Twitter may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to improve their service including understanding user interaction, monitor aggregate usage and web traffic routing. Twitter’s privacy policy page.
| Name | Expires |
| k | 7 days |
| guest_id | 2 years |
| original_referer | End of Session (Date not set) |
| external_referer | 1 day |
| _twitter_sess | End of Session (Date not set) |
You Tube Cookies
YouTube uses cookies to help maintain the integrity of video statistics and prevent fraud. Most of the videos you’ll find on our website are hosted directly by us, but we may embed some videos from our official YouTube channel; when we do this, we use the privacy-enhanced mode which means YouTube can’t set a cookie unless a user clicks on the video to begin playback.
| Name | Expires |
| use_hitbox | End of Session (Date not set) |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 240 days |
| PREF | 3650 days |
LinkedIn Cookies
LinkedIn cookie, introduced by the LinkedIn share button. Used to track which pages the user visits to collect them. For more information visit LinkedIn’s privacy policy page.
| Name | Expires |
| leo_auth_token | Less than one day |
| JSESSIONID | Date not set |
| bcookie | 730 days |
| visit | 730 days |
| PersistenceCookie | Less than one day |
| NSC_MC_QH_MFP | Less than one day |
| lang | Date not set |
| leo_auth_token | Less than one day |
| NSC_MC_WT_DTQ_IUUQ | Less than one day |
Slidshare Cookies
YouTube uses cookies to help improve their Site, services, features and content, to administer Accounts and to enable Visitors to enjoy and easily navigate the Site. The duration of the Cookies set by Slide Share is unclear so please see the SlideShare privacy policy for more information SlideShare’s privacy policy page.
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WordPress Cookies
WordPress is the Content Management System (CMS) that runs this website. It uses a cookie when logging in and out and is essential for proper website operation. It is only set if you are a registered user, so for most people it is not set at all. User data is all anonymous.
| Name | Expires |
| wordpress_[hash] | 1 year |
| wordpress_logged_in_[hash] | 1 year |
| wp-settings-{time}-[UID] | 1 year |
If you leave a comment on the website e.g. on a page, article or blog post, then a cookie may be stored to ‘remember’ your email address for the next time you post.
| Name | Expires |
| comment_author | 1 year |
| comment_author_email | 1 year |
| comment_author_url | 1 year |
Viewed Cookies Policy
In the footer of each web page on this site you will see a message alerting you to our cookie policy. If you’ve seen this message once and clicked the accept button, you won’t see it again. We use a cookie to remember this setting. User data is all anonymous.
| Name | Expires |
| viewed_cookie_policy | 1 year |