What are cookies?
Cookies or browser cookies are small, encrypted files that are located in browser directories. They help users navigate websites efficiently to perform certain functions. Their role is to enhance/enable usability. Disabling cookies may prevent users from using certain websites.
They are created when a user’s browser loads a particular website. The website then sends information to the browser and creates a text file. Each time the user goes back to the same website the browser sends this file to the website’s server. Website browsing, ads, widgets and other elements on a website’s page also create cookies. The cookies regulate how ads appear or how widgets function on a page.
To find out more about cookies and how manage and remove them, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
What cookies do we use?
The Squires website uses cookies in the following ways:
- _ga – These cookies are used to throttle the request rate and to distinguishes unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.
- _gat – 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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- _gid – It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.
- NID – A browser sends this cookie with requests to Google’s sites. The NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English)
