Cookies
This site uses cookies to help gather information about how the site is used. This page explains what cookies are how the site uses them.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file stored on your computer when you visit a website. It is used to track where you have been on the website and any activity you have carried out on the site, such as adding a comment.
How does this site use cookies?
We use cookies for two things: to track the way visitors use the site, and to store comments. There are also some third party cookies which other sites create because this site interacts with them, for example social media sites.
1. Google analytics
The site uses Google Analytics to track visitors. These cookies track the pages that visitors use, the length of time they spend on each page, where the visitor came to the site from and any search terms they used to find the site.
The information provided from these cookies helps us to improve the site for our visitors. For example making our site easier to find by knowing what the major search terms people are using in order to reach to the site.
2. Comments
These are used only when you submit a comment to any of the news articles. The site simply stores your name and email address meaning we can then pre-populate this information should you wish to comment again, saving you time and improving your experience of using the site.
3. Third party cookies
The site integrates with PayPal for donations and also with Twitter to display Gisela’s twitter feed. To find out more about the cookies they set, you can click the links to see their privacy pages.
On the donate page PayPal uses one cookie, which is served from paypal.com to make donations work correctly.
More details
You can easily check your browser settings for the cookies that this site has stored on your computer. This is the information you will see:
| Cookie Name | Cookie Identifier |
| Google Analytics | _utma _utmb _utmc _utmz |
| News Comments | comment_author_[random_string] comment_author_email _[random_string] |
