Cookie Policy
About this policy
Our cookie policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to control your own cookie preferences.
For further information on how we use, store, and keep your personal data secure, see our Privacy Policy.
When you first visit the Oxford Food Symposium website, we show a cookie declaration that explains that we require the use of cookies in order to provide the site’s functionality. In order to use the site without interruption, you must provide your consent via this cookie declaration message.
Your consent applies to the following domain: oxfordsymposium.org.uk. If you wish to retract this consent, see the section below entitled How you can control your cookie preferences.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and where it needs improvement.
What types of cookies do we use?
Like most websites, the Oxford Food Symposium site uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes:
- First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
- The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs and how users interact with it, information that helps us improve user experience on the website.
None of the cookies we set store any personally identifiable information.
The cookies in use on the site can be categorised into the following types:
Essential cookies
Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. For example, these cookies allow you to log in to your Oxford Food Symposium account and securely purchase tickets to our events.
This list details the Essential cookies used on the website:
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| buddypanel | 1 month | A BuddyPress cookie that remembers the user's preference for a community-related layout feature. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | 11 months | Used to store the user consent for cookies in the Analytics category. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | 11 months | Used to store the user consent for cookies in the Essential category. |
| CookieLawInfoConsent | 11 months | Used to store whether or not the user has consented to the use of cookies. |
| 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. |
| redux_current_tab | 14 days | A BuddyPress cookie that remembers the user's preference for a community-related layout feature. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | 11 months | Used to store whether or not the user has made a consensual choice on the cookie policy declaration. |
| woocommerce_cart_hash | session | Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes. |
| woocommerce_items_in_cart | session | Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes. |
| wordpress_logged_in_[session-id] | session | A WordPress session cookie that stores details related to the user’s login status. |
| wordpress_logged_in_[session-id] | session | A WordPress session cookie that stores details related to the user’s login status. |
| wordpress_sec_[session-id] | session | A WordPress session cookie that stores details related to the user’s login status. |
| wordpress_test_cookie | session | A cookie that WordPress sets as a test to check that it is able to set cookies in general. |
| wp-resetpass-[session-id] | session | A WordPress cookie that allows a user to reset their account password. |
| wp-settings-time-[user-id] | 1 year | A WordPress cookie that is used to store time settings related to your login on the site. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. |
| wp-settings-[user-id] | 1 year | A WordPress cookie that is used to store settings related to your login on the site. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. |
| wp_woocommerce_session_ | 2 days | Contains a unique code for each customer so that WooCommerce knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. |
| _lscache_vary | 2 days | A WordPress cookie that stores the user’s login status along with some details of their role and preferences. |
Analytics cookies
These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These cookies help us understand and analyse how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
This list details the Analytics cookies used on the website:
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 2 years | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
| _gat_gtag_UA_171389023_1 | 1 minute | This cookie is also part of Google Analytics and is used to limit requests so that usage data is not sent unnecessarily to Google. |
| _gid | 1 day | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form. |
How you can control your cookie preferences
You can also manage the cookies in use on the website by changing the settings of your browser to block or delete specific cookies or restrict the website’s ability to utilise cookies entirely. Your experience on the website is likely to be affected if any essential cookies are deleted or blocked.
Different browsers provide different methods to manage cookies, and to find out more about how to do this you should consult documentation for your particular browser, or visit useful resources like wikipedia.org or allaboutcookies.org.
More information
Google has their own Privacy Policy covering the use of Google Analytics, which you can read here.
