Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
Cookies are files that can be stored on your computer or on other devices such as a smartphone or tablet when you visit the website. A cookie usually contains the name of the website where the cookie comes from, how long the cookie will remain on your computer/device and a value that often consists of a randomly generated unique number. This site uses cookies and other tracking technologies to assist with navigation, your ability to provide feedback and analyze your use of our online resources.
What does the website use cookies for?
Crowcreative.ca use cookies to better tailor the website to your interests and needs, to optimize the website for speed and performance and in the basic functioning of the website.
How can you control cookies?
You can set your preferences for non-necessary cookies served on our website here: Cookie Settings.
Browser Controls
You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted or may not work or load correctly. Each browser is a little different, but usually these settings are under the “options” or “preferences” menu. You may delete these cookies whenever you wish. If you are concerned about the use of cookies, then you can refer to the help information in your browser software (Firefox, Chrome – Desktop & Mobile and Safari – Desktop & Mobile) for information on how to disable, delete and manage cookies.
Cookies served through our Website
The table below gives an overview of the different types of cookies we use on crowcreative.ca, their purpose and how long each cookie remains on your device / computer.
1. Necessary Cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary for our website to perform its basic functions. These include those required to allow registered users to authenticate and perform account related functions, for WordPress security, as well as the functionality of the e-commerce shop.
| Placed by | Cookie Name | Description | How long does the cookie remain? |
|---|---|---|---|
| crowcreative.ca | wordpress_sec_ | This cookie is used for authentication over SSL and stores your authentication details. Its use is limited to the WordPress admin area. | 15 days |
| crowcreative.ca | wordpress_test_cookie | Session; end of the browser session. | |
| crowcreative.ca | wordpress_logged_in_ | This WordPress cookie indicates when you’re logged in to the WordPress admin area and who you are. | Session; end of the browser session. |
| crowcreative.ca | wp_woocommerce_recently_viewed | WooCommerce is an e-commerce plugin for WordPress. WooCommerce creates a cookie that stores data about what a visitor does and views in the shop. This cookie stores the ID of the latest viewed products. | Session; end of the browser session. |
| crowcreative.ca | woocommerce_cart_hash | This cookie is used for the correct functioning of the store. This cookie is used by WooCommerce and contains the end user’s cart information. The cookie helps WooCommerce determine when the cart contents/data change. | Session; end of the browser session. |
| crowcreative.ca | woocommerce_items_in_cart | This cookie is used for the correct functioning of the store. The cookie helps WooCommerce determine when the cart contents/data change. | Session; end of the browser session. |
| crowcreative.ca | wp_woocommerce_session_ | Contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. No personal information is stored within this cookie. | 2 days |
| crowcreative.ca | wpl_user_preference wpl_viewed_cookie |
This cookie stores your consent preferences in the WP GDPR Cookie plugin that manages the websites cookies. | 1 year |
| Paypal.com | PYPF | This cookie is linked to the checkout process if you decide to use the Paypal option. | Up to 30 days |
| crowcreative.ca | wfwaf-authcookie- | This cookie is set by the WordPress security plugin “Wordfence”. This cookie allows the Wordfence firewall to detect logged in users and allow them increased access and to detect non-logged in users and restrict their access to secure areas. This cookie is only set for users that are able to log into WordPress. See Wordfence for more information. | 1 day |
2. Analytics Cookies
Analytic cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our websites are being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our websites and application for you in order to enhance your experience.
| Placed by | Cookie Name | Description | How long does the cookie remain? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | _ga, _gid, _gat, gat_UA-XXXXXXXX-X |
These cookies are used to gather information using Google Analytics services allowing us to understand interactions with our websites and ultimately refine that experience to better serve you. Find out more on how Google uses cookies from their Privacy & Terms. | Up to 2 years |
| Google Analytics | _ga | Visitor identification. Google Universal Analytics long-time unique user tracking identifier. | 2 years |
| Google Analytics | _gid | User journey. Google Universal Analytics short-time unique user tracking identifier used to distinguish users. | 1 day |
| Google Analytics | _gat, gat_UA-XXXXXXXX-X |
Performance. Google Analytics tracking cookie. The cookie is used to limit requests to Google Analytics to ensure that Google doubleclick does not get choked by too many requests and limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. | Session – 1 minute |
| crowcreative.ca | tk_ai | This Woocommerce cookie stores a randomly-generated anonymous ID. This is only used within the dashboard of the WordPress admin area and is used for usage tracking. | Session; end of the browser session. |
3. Functional/Preferences Cookies
These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our website but are non-essential to their use. These cookies store preferences set by users such as account name, language, and location. However, without these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable.
| Placed by | Cookie Name | Description | How long does the cookie remain? |
|---|---|---|---|
| crowcreative.ca | wp-settings- wp-settings-time- |
This cookie is used to customize your view of admin interface and the main site interface. | 1 year |
4. Marketing Cookies
Marketing cookies are used by third party applications and services to enhance the experience of website visitors and to track your online activity. They track details such as the number of times particular ads have been displayed and the number of clicks the ads have received. They are also used to build user profiles, including showing you ads based on products you’ve viewed or acts you have taken on our (and other) websites. These include social media platforms through the use of sharing buttons or embedded content from Youtube and Vimeo. We have no direct control over the information that is collected by these cookies.
| Placed by | Cookie Name | Description | How long does the cookie remain? |
|---|---|---|---|
| youtube.com | GPS | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. The third-party cookie registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. | Session; end of the browser session |
| youtube.com | PREF | This cookie registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. This is a common Google cookie, used across several of their services. Stores user preference, can be used to personalize ads on google searches | 5 years |
| youtube.com | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Targeting/Advertising. This cookie tries to estimate the users bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites. The cookie also determines whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface. | 179 days |
| youtube.com | YSC | Performance. The cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. The cookie registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user have seen. | Session; end of the browser session |
| doubleclick.net | IDE | Targeting/Advertising. Google advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes. The cookie carries information on how the end-user uses the website and any advertising they may have seen before visiting the website. | 2 years |
| crowcreative.ca | mailchimp_landing_site | This cookie is used to measure which page was visited first at crowcreative.ca | 1 month |
This cookie statement was published on September 1, 2021. We are constantly working on supplementing and improving this.