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This is the Cookie Policy for Scratch72

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What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies. This Cookies Policy was created with the help of the Cookies Policy Generator.

The Cookies We Set

  • Account related cookies
    If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

  • Login related cookies
    We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

  • Email newsletters related cookies
    This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

  • Orders processing related cookies
    This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.

  • Forms related cookies
    When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

  • Site preferences cookies
    In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences. For reference, the following Third party Cookies may be placed on your computer or device:

    Name of Cookie Domain Lifespan Purpose
    c_user facebook.com 30 days to store a unique session ID
    oo facebook.com 4 years from Facebook
    wd facebook.com 3 months to improve performance
    xs facebook.com 3 months to store a unique session ID
    NID google.com 6 months Google Ads
    DSID doubleclick.net 2 weeks Security, Functionality, Advertising - Google Ad Manager, Google Analytics
    test_cookie doubleclick.net 15 minutes Functionality - Google Ad Manager, Google Analytics
    __gads scratch72.com 13 months Advertising - Google Ad Manager, Google Ads
    pm_sess doubleclick.net, google.com 30 minutes Security, Functionality - Google Ads
    pm_sess_NNN doubleclick.net, google.com 30 minutes Security, Functionality - Google Ads
    aboutads_sessNNN doubleclick.net, google.com 30 minutes Security, Functionality - Google Ads
    FPAU scratch72.com 90 days Analytics & Advertising - Google Ads
    ANID google.com 13 months EEA UK / 24 months elsewhere Advertising - Google Ads
    AID google.com/ads, google.com/ads/measurement, googleadservices.com 13 months EEA UK / 540 days elsewhere Analytics & advertising - Google Ads
    IDE doubleclick.net 13 months EEA UK / 24 months elsewhere Advertising - Google Ad Manager, Google Analytics
    TAID google.com/ads, google.com/ads/measurement, googleadservices.com 14 days Analytics, Advertising - Google Ads
    _gcl_au scratch72.com 90 days Analytics, Advertising - Google Ads
    RUL doubleclick.net 12 months Advertising - Google Ads
    FPGCLAW scratch72.com 90 days Analytics, Advertising - Google Ads
    FPGCLGB scratch72.com 90 days Analytics, Advertising - Google Ads
    _gcl_gb scratch72.com 90 days Analytics, Advertising - Google Ads
    _gac_gb_ scratch72.com 90 days Analytics, Advertising - Google Ads
    _gcl_aw scratch72.com 90 days Analytics, Advertising - Google Ads
    1P_JAR google.com and local variations, e.g. google.de 30 days Advertising - Google Ads
    Conversion www.googleadservices.com/pagead/conversion/ 90 days Advertising - Google Ads
    YSC youtube.com Session Security - Google Ads, YouTube
    VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE youtube.com 180 days Security, Advertising - Google Ads, YouTube
    VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE__k youtube.com 180 days Security, Advertising - Google Ads, YouTube
    VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE__default youtube.com 180 days Google Ads, YouTube - Security, Advertising
    FPLC scratch72.com 20 hours Analytics - Google Analytics
    _ga scratch72.com 2 years Analytics - Google Analytics
    _gac_ scratch72.com 90 days Advertising - Google Analytics
    _gid scratch72.com 24 hours Analytics - Google Analytics
    _gat[_] scratch72.com 1 minute Analytics - Google Analytics
    __utma scratch72.com 2 years Analytics - Google Analytics
    __utmb scratch72.com 30 minutes Analytics - Google Analytics
    __utmc scratch72.com Session Analytics - Google Analytics
    __utmt scratch72.com 10 minutes Analytics - Google Analytics
    __utmz scratch72.com 6 months Analytics - Google Analytics
    __utmv scratch72.com 2 years Analytics - Google Analytics
    AMP_TOKEN scratch72.com 30 seconds to 1 year Functionality - Google Analytics
    _dc_gtm_ scratch72.com 1 minute Analytics - Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager
    _gaexp scratch72.com Set by customer; max of 93 days Analytics - Google Analytics
    _gaexp_rc scratch72.com 10 seconds Analytics - Google Analytics
    _opt_awcid scratch72.com 24 hours Analytics - Google Analytics
    _opt_awmid scratch72.com 24 hours Analytics - Google Analytics
    _opt_awgid scratch72.com 24 hours Analytics - Google Analytics
    _opt_awkid scratch72.com 24 hours Analytics - Google Analytics
    _opt_utmc scratch72.com 24 hours Analytics - Google Analytics

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

  • This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

    For more information on Google Analytics cookies, please click here.

  • Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.

  • From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.

  • As we sell products it's important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.

  • The Google Ads service we use to serve advertising uses a cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.

    For more information on Google Ads cookies, please see the following pages:

  • We use adverts to offset the costs of running this site and provide funding for further development. The behavioural advertising cookies used by this site are designed to ensure that we provide you with the most relevant adverts where possible by anonymously tracking your interests and presenting similar things that may be of interest.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.

For more general information on cookies, please read the Cookies Policy article.

However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:

  • Email: stuart@scratch72.com

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