This website www.obsidiancontent.co.uk (“our Site”) uses Cookies and similar technologies in order to distinguish you from other users. By using Cookies, we are able to improve our Site by better understanding how you use it, in turn providing you with a better experience. Please read this Cookie Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of this Cookie Policy is deemed to occur if you continue using our Site.
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Our Site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide the best possible experience when you browse our website and allows us to further develop and improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers is stored within your browser or on your device’s storage if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred from a website onto your device.
Our Site may place and access certain first party Cookies on your computer or device. First party Cookies are those placed directly by us and are used only by us. We use Cookies to facilitate and improve your experience of our Site and to provide and improve our products and services. We have carefully chosen these Cookies and have taken steps to ensure that your privacy and personal data is protected and respected at all times.
For more details of the personal data that we collect and use, the measures we have in place to protect personal data, your legal rights, and our legal obligations, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
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 log into secure areas of our website.
- Analytical or Statistical cookies. These cookies 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 users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality or Preference cookies. These cookies enable us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). These cookies are not strictly necessary but the site may not work as fluidly without them.
- Marketing cookies. These cookies are chiefly third-party analytical cookies, used by providers like YouTube or Twitter to analyse the performance of embedded content from their platforms on the site. These cookies are not necessary, but you may need to allow them in order to engage with embedded third-party content.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Category | Cookie Name | Provider | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Necessary | CONSENT | google.com | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. |
| Necessary | CONSENT | youtube.com | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. |
| Necessary | CookieConsent | obsidiancontent.co.uk | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. |
| Necessary | ml-form | obsidiancontent.co.uk | Checks if the user has been shown the pop-up form before and stops it from showing again if so. |
| Necessary | rc::a | google.com | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
| Necessary | rc::c | google.com | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. |
| Necessary | webforms/o/#/# | track.mailerlite.com | Used to implement forms on the website. |
| Statistics | CONSENT | google.com | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. |
| Statistics | _ga | obsidiancontent.co.uk | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| Statistics | _ga_# | obsidiancontent.co.uk | Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. |
| Statistics | _gat | obsidiancontent.co.uk | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. |
| Statistics | _gid | obsidiancontent.co.uk | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| Marketing | ads/ga-audiences | google.com | Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites. |
| Marketing | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | youtube.com | Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. |
| Marketing | YSC | youtube.com | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| Marketing | ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | youtube.com | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| Marketing | yt-remote-cast-available | youtube.com | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| Marketing | yt-remote-cast-installed | youtube.com | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| Marketing | yt-remote-connected-devices | youtube.com | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| Marketing | yt-remote-connected-devices | youtube.com | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| Marketing | yt-remote-connected-devices | youtube.com | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| Marketing | yt-remote-device-id | youtube.com | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| Marketing | yt-remote-fast-check-period | youtube.com | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| Marketing | yt-remote-session-app | youtube.com | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| Marketing | yt-remote-session-name | youtube.com | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
Please note where we use third party cookies, we have no control over their functions or destination. These third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services.
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