Cookies policy
To make LIBstick website work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.
- First party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.
- Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser.
Every time you visit the LIBstick, you will be prompted to accept essential or all cookies.
The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as user name, language, etc.) for a certain period of time. That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit.
Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on our sites.
How do we use cookies?
LIBstick use both first-party cookies as well as third-party ones.
The 3 types of first-party cookie we use are to:
- Site visitor preferences
- LIBstick operations
- Analytics data gathering (about user behaviour)
The first-party cookies we use are
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Service |
Purpose |
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_ga |
Google Analytics |
· _ga: identify unique users · _gat: This indicates that it's a cookie used by Google Analytics for throttle management. · gtag: This signifies that it's associated with Google Tag Manager, a tool that allows you to manage and deploy website tags (like Google Analytics) more efficiently. · UA-63218731-13: This is the unique tracking ID for a specific Google Analytics property or website · gid cookie helps differentiate between different sessions for the same user. |
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_gat_gtag_UA_63218731_13 |
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_gid |
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wfwaf-authcookie |
Libstick.org |
used by Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions to maintain authentication sessions |
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wordpress_logged_in_ |
WordPress |
keep track of a user's login status. It's designed to maintain the user's authentication and allow them to access protected areas of the WordPress website without having to re-enter their credentials. |
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wordpress_sec_ |
WordPress |
store a security token that is used to verify the authenticity of user requests and prevent cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. |
The third-party cookies we use are
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Name |
Service |
Purpose |
Cookie type and duration |
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IDE |
Doubleclick.net by Google
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identify unique users |
3rd party persistent cookies |
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DSID |
Cross devise tracking |
3rd party persistent cookies |
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__Secure-1PSID |
track a user's activity on a specific website, but not across different websites. |
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__Secure-1PAPISID |
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SAPISID |
Used for user identification, targeted advertising, and cross-device tracking. |
3rd party persistent cookies. |
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__Secure-3PSID |
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APISID |
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__Secure-3PAPISID |
Doubleclick.net by Google
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HSID |
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SEARCH_SAMESITE |
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search-related functions |
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How can you manage cookies?
Moving cookies from your device
You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.
Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).
You can opt-out of having your site activity available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on . The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (gtag. js, analytics. js) that is running on websites from sharing information with Google Analytics about visit activity.
Managing site-specific cookies
Upon launching LIBstick.org, users are presented with a clear disclaimer message that allows them to choose whether to accept or reject the storage of third-party cookies. By selecting ‘Reject,’ no third-party cookies will be created or stored on the user’s device.
Blocking cookies
You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging-in).