Use of Cookies
By visiting www.designbyday.co.uk and other online services such as our mobile apps and social media, you agree that we can use cookies, web beacons or other tracking devices to enable us to collect usage information which helps us to improve your usage experience with us when you browse our website or communicate with us via our online platform. A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your computer (or other electronic device) when you access our website. We use this usage information to make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable. This Cookie Policy should be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy and Acceptable Use Policy both of which are incorporated by reference into our Terms of Conditions that regulate how we provide our Services to you:
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to send enquiries about our Services to us or to enable us to keep track of your enquiry process so we can take you through the ordering our Services securely and enable an account to be set up for you;
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that you can find what you are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website and this speeds up your access to the site as you do not have to log on each time. It also enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and obtain information about your preferences.
- Targeting / Advertisingcookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We use this information to carry out research and statistical analysis to help us improve our content, products and services and to help us better understand our customer requirements and interests. This enables us to target our marketing and advertising campaigns and those of our partners more effectively by providing interest-based advertisements that are personalised to your interests. We may share this information with third parties for this purpose.
The information we obtain from our use of cookies will not usually contain your personal data. Although we may obtain information about your computer or other electronic device such as your IP address, your browser and/or other internet log information, this will not usually identify you personally. In certain circumstances we may collect personal information about you—but only where you voluntarily provide it (e.g. by completing an online enquiry form) or where you enter into the process of ordering services from us.
In most cases we will need your consent in order to use cookies on this website. The exception is where the cookie is essential in order for us to provide you with a service you have requested (e.g. to enable you to send an Instruction for our Services or accept a Proposal for instance).
Browser settings
If you visit our website when your browser is set to accept cookies, we will interpret this as an indication that you consent to our use of cookies and other similar technologies as described in this Cookie Policy. If you change your mind in the future about letting us use cookies, you can modify the settings of your browser to reject cookies or disable cookies completely.
Third-party cookies
We work with third-party suppliers who may also set cookies on our website, for example YouTube and Vimeo which we use to display video content. These third-party suppliers are responsible for the cookies they set on our site. If you want further information please go to the website for the relevant third party. You will find additional information in the table below.
Description of cookies
The table below is designed to provide more information about the cookies we use and why:
Strictly Necessary Cookies |
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| Site/domain | Set by | Cookie Name | Expires | Purpose |
| designbyday.co.uk | Cookie Control | CookieControl |
90 days | This cookie is set in order to remember the user’s preferences in regards to cookies. |
| More information on Cookie Control | ||||
| designbyday.co.uk | UK Cookie Consent | catAccCookies |
90 days | This cookie is set by the UK cookie consent plugin to record that a users has accepted the site uses cookies. |
| More information on Uk Cookie Consent | ||||
| designbyday.co.uk | Google Translate | googtrans |
– | Stores your chosen language, if you decide to change is from English. |
| designbyday.co.uk | WordPress | wordpress_test_cookie |
End of session | Used on sites built with WordPress. Tests whether or not the browser has cookies enabled |
wordpress_logged_in_[hash] |
2 weeks | After login, wordpress sets the wordpress_logged_in_[hash] cookie, which indicates when you're logged in, and who you are, for most interface use. |
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wp-settings-[UID] |
1 year 1 year |
WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. |
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| More info on WordPress Cookies | ||||
| designbyday.co.uk | WooCommerce | woocommerce_cart_hash |
On login, wordpress uses the wordpress_[hash] cookie to store your authentication details. Its use is limited to the admin console area, /wp-admin/ |
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woocommerce_items_in_cart |
Contains information about the cart as a whole and helps WooCommerce know when the cart data changes. | |||
wp_woocommerce_session_ |
Contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. | |||
| More info on WooCommerce Cookies | ||||
| designbyday.co.uk | PHP Session ID | PHPSESSID |
End of browser session | The PHPSESSID cookie is native to PHP and enables websites to store serialised state data. It is used to establish a user session and to pass state data via a temporary cookie, which is commonly referred to as a session cookie. |
| designbyday.co.uk | Wordfence | wfwaf-authcookie-(hash) |
End of Session | This cookie is used by the Wordfence firewall to perform a capability check of the current user before WordPress has been loaded. This is only set for users that are able to log into WordPress. This cookie allows the Wordfence firewall to detect logged in users and allow them increased access. It also allows Wordfence to detect non-logged in users and restrict their access to secure areas. The cookie also lets the firewall know what level of access a visitor has to help the firewall make smart decisions about who to allow and who to block. |
wf_loginalerted_(hash) |
End of Session | This cookie is used to notify the Wordfence admin when an administrator logs in from a new device or location. This is only set for administrators. This cookie helps site owners know whether there has been an admin login from a new device or location. | ||
wfCBLBypass |
Unknown | Wordfence offers a feature for a site visitor to bypass country blocking by accessing a hidden URL. This cookie helps track who should be allowed to bypass country blocking. When a hidden URL defined by the site admin is visited, this cookie is set to verify the user can access the site from a country restricted through country blocking. This will be set for anyone who knows the URL that allows bypass of standard country blocking. This cookie is not set for anyone who does not know the hidden URL to bypass country blocking. This cookie gives site owners a way to allow certain users from blocked countries, even though their country has been blocked. | ||
| More information on WordFence Cookies | ||||
| designbyday.co.uk | Stripe | __stripe_mid |
1 year | Required to make payments via Stripe. |
__stripe_sid |
1 day | Required to make payments via Stripe. | ||
| More info on Stripe Cookies | ||||
Analytical Cookies |
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| Site/domain | Set by | Cookie Name | Expires | Purpose | |||||
| designbyday.co.uk | Google Analytics | ||||||||
| These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited
More information on Google Analytics Cookie Usage |
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_ga |
2 years | Used to distinguish users. | |||||||
_gid |
24 hours | Used to distinguish users. | |||||||
_gat |
1 minute | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_. |
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| The following Cookies are only used if you use Google Analytics Content Experiments
More information on Google Analytics Cookie Usage |
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_ |
18 months | Used to determine a user's inclusion in an experiment. | |||||||
_ |
18 months | Used to determine the expiry of experiments a user has been included in. | |||||||
| designbyday.co.uk | Analytics / Segment | ||||||||
Ajs_anonymous_id |
1 year | These cookies are used to record the amount of people that visit our site, and track whether you’ve visited before. | |||||||
| hotjar.com | HotJar | ||||||||
| Hotjar is an analytics and feedback tool that we use to understand how our website is used and improve usability. Hotjar sets cookies to help us track behaviour across pages and to control visitor polls. The cookies carry no personally identifiable information. | |||||||||
_hjClosedSurveyInvites |
1 year | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor interacts with a Survey invitation modal popup. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not re-appear if it has already been shown. | |||||||
_hjDonePolls |
1 year | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor completes a poll using the Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the same poll does not re-appear if it has already been filled in. | |||||||
_hjMinimizedPolls |
1 year | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor minimizes a Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimizes when the visitor navigates through your site. | |||||||
_hjDoneTestersWidgets |
1 year | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor submits their information in the Recruit User Testers widget. It is used to ensure that the same form does not re-appear if it has already been filled in. | |||||||
_hjIncludedInSample |
1 year | Hotjar cookie. This session cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels. | |||||||
_hjShownFeedbackMessage |
1 year | This cookie is set when a visitor minimizes or completes Incoming Feedback. This is done so that the Incoming Feedback will load as minimized immediately if they navigate to another page where it is set to show. | |||||||
_hjid |
1 year | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | |||||||
| More info on HotJar Cookies | |||||||||
| luckyorange.com | Lucky Orange | ||||||||
| Lucky Orange is an analytics and feedback tool that we use to understand how our website is used and improve usability. Lucky Orange sets cookies to help us track behaviour across pages and to control visitor polls. The cookies carry no personally identifiable information. | |||||||||
_global_lucky_opt_out |
10 years | If set, will not run Lucky Orange. Set via Lucky Orange opt out links. | |||||||
_lo_np_<Poll ID> |
30 days | Set if a user should no longer receive a particular poll. | |||||||
_lo_bn |
30 days | Indicated this visitor has been banned from tracking. | |||||||
_lo_cid |
Session | ID of the visitor's current chat, if any. | |||||||
_lo_uid |
2 years | Unique identifier for the visitor. | |||||||
_lo_rid |
30 minutes (extending) | ID of the visitor's current recording. | |||||||
_lo_v |
1 Year (extending) | Total number of visitor's visits. | |||||||
__lotr |
180 days | URL of the visitor's original referrer, if any. | |||||||
| More info on Lucky Orange Cookies | |||||||||
Functionality Cookies |
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| Site/domain | Set by | Cookie Name | Expires | Purpose |
| designbyday.co.uk | MailChimp | mailchimp.cart.current_email |
End of browser session | These cookies are used to keep track of newsletter sign ups and client emails at checkout, Mailchimp utilises cookies to store information captured from user input for remarketing purposes. |
mailchimp.cart.previous_email |
End of browser session | |||
mailchimp_landing_site |
1 month | |||
mailchimp_user_email |
1 month | |||
mailchimp_user_previous_email |
1 month | |||
| tawk.to | Tawk.to | _tawkuuid |
10 years | Tawk.to cookie used to distinguish users. |
TawkConnectionTime |
Session | This cookie is used to determine the connection duration of tawk sessions. | ||
Tawk_* |
Session | Main Tawk.to cookie. | ||
Tawk_<id> |
10 years | This cookie is used to determine the connection duration of Tawk sessions and to determine a unique session. | ||
| Tawk.to Privacy Policy | ||||
| vimeo.com | Vimeo | vuid |
1 minute | This first party cookie created by Vimeo is used to assign a Vimeo Analytics unique id. |
player |
1 minute | This first party cookie created by Vimeo is used to remember user’s player mode preferences. | ||
| More info on Vimeo Cookies | ||||
Advertising Cookies |
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| Site/domain | Set by | Cookie Name | Expires | Purpose |
| designbyday.co.uk | _fbp |
3 months | Facebook tracking pixel used to identify visitors for personalized advertising. | |
fr |
End of browser session | Facebook tracking pixel used to identify visitors for personalized advertising. | ||
| More info on Facebook Cookies | ||||
| youtube.com | YouTube | |||
| We embed videos from our YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. To find out more please visit YouTube’s embedding videos information page. | ||||
visitor_info1_live |
8 months | Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | ||
ysc |
Expires at the end of your session | This cookie is set by the YouTube video service and aims to limit repeat advertising and deliver more relevant advertising to you. | ||
pref |
8 months | Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites. | ||
_ |
10 minutes | Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing _ cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
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_ |
30 mins from set/update | Used to throttle request rate. | ||
_ |
End of browser session | Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the _ cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. |
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_ |
6 months from set/update | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | ||
_ |
2 years from set/update | Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _ method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
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| More info on YouTube Cookies More information on YouTube embedding |
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