As with many websites, WDC uses cookies in order to provide you with a more personalised web service. A cookie is a text-only string of information that we pass to your computer's hard disk through your web browser so that our website can remember who you are. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you.
This Policy sets out what cookies are, why we use cookies on our websites and your options relating to their use.
Who are ‘we’?
We are WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation, a registered Registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our registered address is 7 Nelson Street, Plymouth, MA 02360.
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. When services are delivered on the internet, it sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, such as your computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as ‘cookies’. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
What are ‘cookies’?
In simple terms a cookie is a small piece of information sent from our website to your computer to help us recognise it quickly. If you prefer not to accept a cookie, you can navigate the websites like a normal user. Any information gathered through the use of cookies is compiled on an aggregate, anonymous basis.
Why do we use cookies on our websites?
We use cookies so that we can give you a better experience when you return to our websites. In particular we use cookies to:
- avoid lengthy registration/personalisation of the site each time you visit and personalise it to suit your requirements
- recognise you when you login and make it easier for you to access your account information
- estimate our audience size and patterns
- ensure that you are not asked to register twice
- control how often visitors see similar adverts
- track preferences and to improve and update our websites
- track the progress and number of entries in some of our promotions and contests
Our websites may feature embedded ‘share’ buttons to enable users to easily share articles with their friends through a number of popular social networks. These sites may set a cookie when you are also logged in to their service. We do not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.
Use of cookies
We use two main types of cookies on our website, session and persistent cookies. Cookies can expire at the end of a browser session (from when a user opens the browser window to when they exit the browser) or they can be stored for longer.
Session or transient cookies.
These cookies allow our websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session. They may be used for a variety of purposes such as remembering what a user has put in their shopping basket as they browse around the site. These cookies expire after a browser session ends so are not stored longer term.
Persistent, permanent or stored cookies
These cookies are stored on a user's device in between browser sessions which allows the preferences or actions of the user across a site (or in some cases across different websites) to be remembered. Persistent cookies may be used for a variety of purposes including remembering a user's preferences and choices when using our site.
First- and third-party cookies
Whether a cookie is ‘first’ or ‘third’ party refers to the website or domain placing the cookie. First-party cookies are, simply, cookies set by a website visited by the user - the website displayed in the URL window. Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by a domain other than the one being visited by the user. Some of these cookies may be necessary for the website to function for the user. While there is no advertising on the WDC site you will find links to other sites for the purposes of processing payments, entering events or finding additional information. Each of these sites will have its own policy and is responsible for notifying you of its cookie usage policy.
Specific cookies you may find on our website
You can find out up-to-date information which cookies are being used on our site, expiration dates etc by entering our url (website address) at: cookie-checker.com
Do I have to agree to cookies?
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you should be able to change your browser settings to prevent that. You should read the information that came with your browser software to see how you can set up your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. This should then give you the opportunity to decide whether to accept it. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of a website if you do so. Cookies are specific to the server that created them and cannot be accessed by other servers, which means they cannot be used to track your movements around the web. If you do not change your browser settings and continue to use our websites we will infer that you have consented to us using cookies for the purposes set out below.
Where can I get more information about cookies and how to change my settings?
To remove Google Analytics tracking please download the plug-in for your browser.
For more information about cookies, please visit www.aboutcookies.org
For information on how to change cookies settings on your browser please visit the relevant information page:
Cookie details
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | 30 minutes | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. | |
| __Host-GAPS | 2 years | This cookie allows the website to identify a user and provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. | |
| __RequestVerificationToken | session | This cookie is set by web application built in ASP.NET MVC Technologies. This is an anti-forgery cookie used for preventing cross site request forgery attacks. | |
| _abck | 1 year | This cookie is used to detect and defend when a client attempt to replay a cookie.This cookie manages the interaction with online bots and takes the appropriate actions. | |
| _fbp | 3 months | This cookie is set by Facebook to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website. | |
| _ga | 1 year 1 month 4 days | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. | |
| _ga_* | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | |
| _gat_UA-* | 1 minute | Google Analytics sets this cookie for user behaviour tracking. | |
| _gcl_au | 3 months | Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | |
| _gid | 1 day | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | |
| _GRECAPTCHA | 5 months 27 days | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. | |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | 30 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | |
| _hjFirstSeen | 30 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. | |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample_2773626 | 2 minutes | No description | |
| _hjRecordingEnabled | never | Hotjar sets this cookie when a Recording starts and is read when the recording module is initialized, to see if the user is already in a recording in a particular session. | |
| _hjRecordingLastActivity | never | Hotjar sets this cookie when a user recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket. | |
| _hjSession_2773626 | 30 minutes | No description | |
| _hjSessionUser_2773626 | 1 year | No description | |
| ai_session | 30 minutes | This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie set by Microsoft Application Insights software to gather statistical usage and telemetry data for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. | |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | 1 month | Linkedin set this cookie to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie. | |
| ANONCHK | 10 minutes | The ANONCHK cookie, set by Bing, is used to store a user's session ID and also verify the clicks from ads on the Bing search engine. The cookie helps in reporting and personalization as well. | |
| AWSALB | 7 days | AWSALB is an application load balancer cookie set by Amazon Web Services to map the session to the target. | |
| AWSALBCORS | 7 days | This cookie is managed by Amazon Web Services and is used for load balancing. | |
| bcookie | 1 year | LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser ID. | |
| bm_sz | 4 hours | This cookie is set by the provider Akamai Bot Manager. This cookie is used to manage the interaction with the online bots. It also helps in fraud preventions | |
| bscookie | 1 year | LinkedIn sets this cookie to store performed actions on the website. | |
| COMPASS | 1 hour | No description | |
| CONSENT | 2 years | YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. | |
| CookieLawInfoConsent | 1 year | Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. | |
| crumb | session | Squarespace sets this cookie to prevent cross-site request forgery (CSRF). | |
| datadome | session | This is a security cookie set by Force24 to detect BOTS and malicious traffic. | |
| fr | 3 months | Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. | |
| IDE | 1 year 24 days | Google DoubleClick IDE cookies are used to store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads and according to the user profile. | |
| ITSWEB6 | session | No description | |
| JSESSIONID | session | The JSESSIONID cookie is used by New Relic to store a session identifier so that New Relic can monitor session counts for an application. | |
| li_gc | 5 months 27 days | Linkedin set this cookie for storing visitor's consent regarding using cookies for non-essential purposes. | |
| lidc | 1 day | LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection. | |
| MC1 | 1 year | No description available. | |
| MicrosoftApplicationsTelemetryDeviceId | 1 year | Microsoft sets this cookie to install a unique device ID that is used to track how users behave and interact with the Microsoft application on the device. | |
| MR | 7 days | This cookie, set by Bing, is used to collect user information for analytics purposes. | |
| MS0 | 30 minutes | This cookie is set by Microsoft to identify a particular session. | |
| MSFPC | 1 year | This cookie is set by Microsoft to recognize unique web browsers that visit Microsoft sites. It is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. | |
| msToken | 10 days | No description | |
| muc_ads | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Twitter set this cookie to collect visitor navigation data to optimise ad relevance. | |
| MUID | 1 year 24 days | Bing sets this cookie to recognize unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations. | |
| NID | 6 months | NID cookie, set by Google, is used for advertising purposes; to limit the number of times the user sees an ad, to mute unwanted ads, and to measure the effectiveness of ads. | |
| Path | session | No description | |
| personalization_id | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Twitter sets this cookie to integrate and share features for social media and also store information about how the user uses the website, for tracking and targeting. | |
| PHPSESSID | session | This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users' unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed. | |
| RpsAuthNonce | 1 month | No description | |
| S | 1 hour | Used by Yahoo to provide ads, content or analytics. | |
| SM | session | Microsoft Clarity cookie set this cookie for synchronizing the MUID across Microsoft domains. | |
| SRM_B | 1 year 24 days | Used by Microsoft Advertising as a unique ID for visitors. | |
| test_cookie | 15 minutes | The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. | |
| ttwid | 1 year | TikTok sets this cookie to keep track of how embedded services are being used. | |
| UserMatchHistory | 1 month | LinkedIn sets this cookie for LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. | |
| viewed_cookie_policy | 1 year | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin to store whether or not the user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. | |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 5 months 27 days | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. | |
| vuid | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Vimeo installs this cookie to collect tracking information by setting a unique ID to embed videos to the website. | |
| YSC | session | YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. | |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | never | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. | |
| yt-remote-device-id | never | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. | |
| yt.innertube::nextId | never | This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | |
| yt.innertube::requests | never | This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
