Cookies
By Collin Maessen onThis website uses cookies (Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.
We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits, keep track of advertisements and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business. Please read our privacy statement for how we protect your information.
Cookies we use
| Party | Description | Cookie | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexa | These cookies are set by the Alexa site ranking widget. | afl | Expires in 1 month |
| session_www_alexa_com | Expires in 1 month | ||
| optimizelySegments | Expires in 1 month | ||
| __utma | Expires immediately | ||
| __utmb | Expires in 30 minutes | ||
| __utmc | Expires at end of session | ||
| __utmz | Expires in 6 months, 12 hours and 30 minutes | ||
| __auc | Expires in 1 day. | ||
| aflh | Expires in 1 month | ||
| lv | Expires in 1 day. | ||
| optimizelyEndUserId | Expires in 10 years | ||
| optimizelybuckets | Expires in 10 years | ||
| DoubleClick | Google’s advertising management cookie. | ID | Expires in 1 year and 7 Months |
| _DRT_ | Expires in 7 hours | ||
| Aggregate Traffic Analysis | _utma | Expires immediately | |
| _utmb | Expires in 30 minutes | ||
| _utmc | Expires at end of session | ||
| _utmz | Expires in 6 months, 12 hours and 30 minutes | ||
| RealSceptic | Unique identifiers given to each computer and is required for the site to operate correctly. | PHPSESSID | Expires at end of session |
| WordPress | Aggregate Traffic Analysis | anonymous_stats | Expires in 9 days |
| _utma | Expires immediately | ||
| _utmb | Expires in 30 minutes | ||
| _utmc | Expires at end of session | ||
| _utmz | Expires in 6 months, 12 hours and 30 minutes | ||
| Quantcast | Aggregate Traffic Analysis | __qca | Expires in 26 years |
| mc | Expires in 2 years | ||
| d | Expires in 3 months |
Disabling Cookies
If you would like to restrict the use of cookies you can control this in your Internet browser. Links to advice on how to do this for the most popular Internet browsers are provided below for convenience and will be available for the Internet browser of your choice either online or via the software help (normally available via key F1).
Please note that not allowing cookies from our website will break essential functionality. We do not recommend refusing cookies for the domains realsceptic.com and wordpress.com, except for the cookies “anonymous_stats”, “_utma”, “_utmb”, “_utmc”, and “_utmz”. These are aggregate statistics cookies and can be refused without breaking essential site functionality.
Internet Explorer
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows7/Block-enable-or-allow-cookies
Google Chrome
https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95647&p=cpn_cookies
Mozilla Firefox
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Blocking%20cookies
Apple Safari
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=32467
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