Our cookie policy
Cookie policy of digitalastronaut.be.
Last updated on 31/12/2018.
What are cookies and what are they used for?
Cookies are small text based files that are stored on your local computer while visiting websites. Some basic information is saved in these files usually to either save a user’s preferences (like language, region, …) or to identify returning visitors (either for functional purposes like remembering your login, shopping cart, … or for analytics purposes to allow improvements to the website).
Cookies usually have an expiration date that can vary anywhere between several hours or years. Some cookies are permanent and have no expiration date, although this is rather the exception than the rule. You can always delete cookies manually in your browser.
What kinds of cookies are there?
Usually cookies are divided into three main segments: functional or required cookies, first-party analytical (optional) cookies and third-party analytical/advertisement (optional) cookies.
Functional or required cookies
These are used for technical purposes and several components on this website cannot function without them. Therefore they are required cannot be deactivated. These cookies can however be manually removed after visiting the website, though we would not recommend this.
First-party analytical (optional) cookies
First-party cookies are cookies that are being set on the same domain you’re visiting. This means that these cookies can be found and identified under digitalastronaut.be. Currently this website only uses Google Analytics for anonymous statistics: knowing how many people visit this website, what pages are most popular, etc. This allows us to measure the performance of our website and possibly make future improvements. We do not use this data to identify specific people. These are optional and you can always opt to disable these cookies.
Third-party analytical and advertisement (optional) cookies
Third-party cookies are cookies that are being set by third parties on a different domain than the one you’re visiting. This means that these cookies cannot be found and identified under digitalastronaut.be. An example of these cookies are video embedding services like YouTube and social sharing buttons, which track page visits while also knowing who you are if you’re currently logged on to your social platforms. These are optional and you can always opt to disable these cookies, which might cause this website to lose some minor functionality.
List of cookies used on this website
Below you’ll find a list of cookies we’re using on this website as well as their type, purpose and expiration periods.
| Name | Type | Purpose | Expiration |
|---|---|---|---|
| wp-settings-{uid} | Functional | List of settings and user preferences for the WordPress admin content management system, once logged in. | 1 year |
| wp-settings-time-{uid} | Functional | An ID corresponding to the user in the database that allows for custom WordPress admin settings and prefernces , once logged in. | 1 year |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Functional | A simple check to see if cookies are enabled. | session |
| wordpress_sec_{hash} | Functional | This cookie is used to store your authentication details. Its use is limited to the admin console area. | session |
| wordpress_logged_in_{hash} | Functional | This cookie indicates when you’re logged in, and who you are, for most interface use. | session |
| cerber_groove | Functional | Cookie used by Security Plugin for protection against hackers, cyber criminals, spammers and bots. | 1 year |
| cerber_groove_x_{uid} | Functional | Cookie used by Security Plugin for protection against hackers, cyber criminals, spammers and bots. | 2 weeks |
| {uid} | Functional | Cookie used by Security Plugin for protection against hackers, cyber criminals, spammers and bots. | 1 month |
| _ga | First-party analytical | This cookie allows Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user. To do this, a unique identifier, associated with that particular user, must be sent with each hit. | 2 years |
| _gid | First-party analytical | Using cookies allows analytics.js to identify unique users across browsing sessions (=website visits), but it cannot identify unique users across different browsers or devices. | 24 hours |
| _gat | First-party analytical | Used to throttle request rate. This cookie might be named _dc_gtm_{property-id} if GA is deployed with Google Tag Manager. | 1 minute |
| AMP_TOKEN | First-party analytical | Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. | 30 seconds to 1 year |
Other and unexpected cookies
We do our very best to keep you informed as accurately as possible as to which cookies are being used on this website, but due to the way websites on the internet work, it might be possible that some cookies are being set by third-parties without our knowledge. This might sometimes be the case due to content being loaded from third-party website like video embeds, iframes, etc.
If this should be the case and cookies that are not listed above are discovered, we urge you to contact us at privacy@digitalastronaut.be so we can take immediate action to add either add those cookies to the list above or remove the embedded content entirely.
Set your cookie preferences
You can set your own Cookie Preferences for this website by clicking the button below.
cookie preferencesHow to view cookies installed on your computer (and remove them)
Viewing which cookies are installed on your computer (and also how to remove these) depends on which browser you are currently using. We’ve provided links on how to do this for the four most common browsers below.
We respect your privacy
We really do try to respect your privacy as best we can. For more information on how we do this, apart from our cookie policy, you can take a look at our privacy policy.
Changes to this policy and contacting us
We may update this policy from time to time for various reasons. Mostly this might occur to reflect any changes to the cookies being used on this website, or for legal/regulatory reasons. When we do, we will always update the date at the top of this document. We therefore advise you to regularly revisit this page to stay informed.
If you have any questions left on how we use cookies on this website, please contact us at privacy@digitalastronaut.be.