A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
If you wish to change your Cookie settings you can do this from the ‘Tools’ menu in your browser (usually under security settings). By doing so you may impede your usage of this, and other websites.
Cookies used on this website
The following tables list the cookies used on this website and sets out the name, function, duration and origin of each.
Common & Google Cookies:
| Name | Function | Duration | Origin |
| Random e.g. 962021d6ef14d849 79b6bc16734373d3 |
Visitor Session | Session Cookie | This Domain |
| _ga | Google Analytics | 2 hours | accounts.google.com |
| _gid | Google Analytics | 24 hours | accounts.google.com |
| _gat | Google Analytics | 1 minute | accounts.google.com |
| cookie_policy | gdpr_cookie_info | 2 years | This Domain |
| NID | Google Captcha | No Expiry | google.com |
Locrating Plugin Cookie:
| Name | Function | Duration | Origin |
| __utma | Google Analytics | 2 yrs from set/update | www.locraiting.com |
| __utmb | Google Analytics | 30 mins from set/update | www.locraiting.com |
| __utmc | Google Analytics | End of browser session | www.locraiting.com |
| __utmt | Google Analytics | 30 mins | www.locraiting.com |
| __utmz | Google Analytics | 6 months from set/update | www.locraiting.com |
Please visit Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie if you wish to learn about the other ‘types’ of cookie.
