- Information about our use of cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a personalised experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
- What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers containing information that is stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. A cookie can be used to identify a user’s computer or internet enabled device to the website, or to other third party websites.
- Blocking Cookie
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. You can access the “Help” function in your browser to find out more. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
- What cookies do we use?
The cookies we use are:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
- Google Analytics cookies. We use these cookies to collect information about how you use our site. This information helps us to understand how you engage with our site and provides us with a report on the usage of the site. This information on website usage does not identify individuals but rather provides us with anonymous information including how many people have visited the site, which parts of the site they have visited etc. We use this information to improve the site.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Cookie |
Name |
Purpose |
Duration |
Domain |
Google analytics |
_ga |
This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. |
2 years |
.orphandrugconsulting.com |
Google analytics |
gat |
This cookie does not store any user information, it’s just used to limit the number of requests that have to be made to doubleclick.net. |
Indefinite |
.orphandrugconsulting.com |
Google analytics |
_gid |
The main purpose of this cookie is analyse Performance. It stores and updates a unique value for each page visited. |
Indefinite |
.orphandrugconsulting.com |
|
CONSENT |
Cookie Consent is a JavaScript plugin for alerting users about the use of cookies on our website. |
6 months |
.gstatic.com |
wordpress |
wp-settings-1 |
The number on the end is your individual user ID from the user’s database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. |
Variable |