| PHPSESSID | www.cottagegems.com | Session | Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages. |
| cookieclient | .cottagegems.com | Session | These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. |
| cookiecottageowner | .cottagegems.com | Session | These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. |
| __stripe_mid | .cottagegems.com | 1 year | This cookie is set by Stripe to distinguish users and enable secure payment processing during interactions with the website. |
| __stripe_sid | .cottagegems.com | 30 minutes | This cookie is set by Stripe to manage and process payments securely, allowing temporary storage of session related information during a users visit to the website. |
| m | .cottagegems.com | 2 years | This cookie is generally used for performance and optimization of payment processing services, facilitating caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
| __utmz | .cottagegems.com | 6 months 2 days | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour measure of site performance. This cookie identifies the source of traffic to the site - so Google Analytics can tell site owners where visitors came from when arriving on the site. The cookie has a life span of 6 months and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| __utmt | .cottagegems.com | 10 minutes | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. According to their documentation it is used to throttle the request rate for the service - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes |
| __utmb | .cottagegems.com | 30 minutes | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie determines new sessions and visits and expires after 30 minutes. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Any activity by a user within the 30 minute life span will count as a single visit, even if the user leaves and then returns to the site. A return after 30 minutes will count as a new visit, but a returning visitor. |
| _ga_ZGVB2T631P | .cottagegems.com | 1 year 1 month | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. |
| _ga | .cottagegems.com | 1 year 1 month | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. |
| __utma | .cottagegems.com | 1 year 1 month | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie lasts for 2 years by default and distinguishes between users and sessions. It it used to calculate new and returning visitor statistics. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. The lifespan of the cookie can be customised by website owners. |
| __utmc | .cottagegems.com | Session | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. It is not used in most sites but is set to enable interoperability with the older version of Google Analytics code known as Urchin. In this older versions this was used in combination with the __utmb cookie to identify new sessions/visits for returning visitors. When used by Google Analytics this is always a Session cookie which is destroyed when the user closes their browser. Where it is seen as a Persistent cookie it is therefore likely to be a different technology setting the cookie. |
