cookie policy
cookie policy
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This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third-party services that appear on our pages.
Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.
| Cookie | Domain | Description | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CRAFT_CSRF_TOKEN | housetheatre.org.uk | Ensures visitor browsing security by preventing cross-site request forgery. Essential for site/visitor security. | Session | Necessary |
| SERVD_LOGGED_IN_STATUS | housetheatre.org.uk | Servd hosting-platform login-status cookie. | Session | Necessary |
| rc::a | .google.com | Distinguishes between humans and bots, to make valid reports on website use. | Persistent | Necessary |
| rc::c | .google.com | Distinguishes between humans and bots. | Session | Necessary |
| SOCS | .google.com | Stores the user's cookie-choice state. | 13 months | Necessary |
| AEC | .google.com | Ensures requests within a browsing session are made by the user and not another site; prevents malicious sites acting on a user's behalf. | 6 months | Necessary |
| HSID | .google.com | Fraud prevention. | 2 years | Necessary |
| SIDCC | .google.com | Identification of trusted web traffic. | 1 year | Necessary |
| JOTFORM_SESSION | JotForm | Preserves user state across page requests on embedded JotForm forms. | 30 days | Necessary |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA (version A) | .youtube.com | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. | 6 months | Necessary |
| APISID (security aspect) | .google.com | Google authentication cookie — verifies identity and helps prevent unauthorised account access. | 2 years | Necessary |
| SAPISID | .google.com | A Google auth cookie pairing with APISID/SID. | 2 years | Necessary |
| _gcl_au | .google.com | Google Ads/Conversion Linker cookie — stores ad-click data to support conversion attribution. | 3 months | Analytics |
| _ga | .google.com | Google Analytics — calculates visitor, session and campaign data; assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Analytics |
| _gid | .google.com | Google Analytics — stores how visitors use the site for analytics reporting. | 1 day | Analytics |
| _gat_UA-* | .google.com | Google Analytics — used for user-behaviour tracking. | 1 minute | Analytics |
| _ga_* | .google.com | Google Analytics — stores and counts page views. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Analytics |
| __utma | .google.com | Legacy Universal Analytics cookie — visit counts and first/most recent visit dates. | 2 years | Analytics |
| __utmb | .google.com | Legacy Universal Analytics cookie — timestamps visit start, for session duration. | 1 day | Analytics |
| __utmc | .google.com | Legacy Universal Analytics cookie — timestamps visit end, for session duration. | Session | Analytics |
| __utmd | .google.com | Legacy Universal Analytics cookie — assigns visitors to behavioural segments. | 1 day | Analytics |
| __utmv | .google.com | Legacy Universal Analytics cookie — stores user-defined tracking parameters. | Session | Analytics |
| __utmz | .google.com | Legacy Universal Analytics cookie — records traffic source, search engine, link and search term. | 6 months | Analytics |
| td | .google.com | Registers statistical data on user behaviour; used for internal analytics. | Session | Analytics |
| _hjSessionUser_* | housetheatre.org.uk | Hotjar — attributes data from subsequent visits to the same user ID. | 1 year | Analytics |
| _hjSession_* | housetheatre.org.uk | Hotjar — attributes data within a session to the same user ID. | 30 minutes | Analytics |
| _hjFirstSeen | housetheatre.org.uk | Hotjar — identifies a new user's first session. | 30 minutes | Analytics |
| ajs_anonymous_id | housetheatre.org.uk | Segment.io — assigns an anonymous ID to track a visitor across sessions before they're identified. | 1 year | Analytics |
| YSC | .youtube.com | YouTube — tracks views of embedded videos. | Session | Analytics |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE (version A) | YouTube (generic) | Estimates user bandwidth on pages with embedded YouTube videos. | 180 days | Analytics |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY (version A) | YouTube (generic) | Stores video player preferences for embedded YouTube. | Persistent | Analytics |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | housetheatre.org.uk | Hotjar — detects a user's first pageview session. | 30 minutes | Functional |
| cache-sprite-plyr | housetheatre.org.uk | First-party Plyr media player cookie — icon sprite caching. | Persistent | Functional |
| plyr | housetheatre.org.uk | First-party Plyr media player cookie — stores player settings/preferences. | Persistent | Functional |
| yt-icons-last-purged | youtube-nocookie.com | YouTube privacy-enhanced player — icon asset cache housekeeping. | Persistent | Functional |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY (version B) | youtube-nocookie.com | Stores the last search result entry clicked, to improve future search relevance. | Persistent (never expires) | Functional |
| NID | .google.com | Ad delivery/retargeting; stores user preferences. | 6 months from last use | Marketing / Advertisement |
| APISID (marketing aspect) | .google.com | Also used for ad personalisation. | 2 years | Marketing / Advertisement |
| SAOISID | .google.com | Cookie name as recorded by your scanner tool; no documented Google cookie matches this exact name. | 2 years | Marketing / Advertisement |
| SID | .google.com | Ad delivery/retargeting; fraud prevention. | 2 years | Marketing / Advertisement |
| ajs_user_id | housetheatre.org.uk | Tracks visitor usage/events for marketing; can measure website performance and stability. | 1 year | Marketing / Advertisement |
| LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | YouTube | Tracks user interaction with embedded content. | Session | Marketing / Advertisement |
| remote_sid | YouTube | Listed by the source as functionality-related for embedded YouTube video, but categorised as Marketing in the original data. | Session | Marketing / Advertisement |
| TESTCOOKIESENABLED | YouTube | Tracks user interaction with embedded content. | 1 day | Marketing / Advertisement |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA (version B) | YouTube (generic) | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. | 180 days | Marketing / Advertisement |
| yt-remote-cast-available | YouTube | Stores video player preferences for embedded YouTube. | Session | Marketing / Advertisement |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | YouTube | Stores video player preferences for embedded YouTube. | Session | Marketing / Advertisement |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | YouTube | Stores video player preferences for embedded YouTube. | Persistent | Marketing / Advertisement |
| yt-remote-device-id | YouTube | Stores video player preferences for embedded YouTube. | Persistent | Marketing / Advertisement |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | YouTube | Stores video player preferences for embedded YouTube. | Session | Marketing / Advertisement |
| yt-remote-session-app | YouTube | Stores video player preferences for embedded YouTube. | Session | Marketing / Advertisement |
| yt-remote-session-name | YouTube | Stores video player preferences for embedded YouTube. | Session | Marketing / Advertisement |
| userReferer | JotForm | Determines how the user accessed the site, for marketing efficiency measurement. | 1 month | Marketing / Advertisement |
| __Secure-YNID | .youtube.com | Protects user security and prevents fraud, especially during login. | 6 months | Marketing / Advertisement |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | .youtube.com | Manages feature rollout/experimentation — controls which new YouTube features are shown as part of testing. | 6 months | Marketing / Advertisement |
| __Secure-YEC | .youtube.com | Stores video player preferences for embedded YouTube video. | Persistent | Marketing / Advertisement |