Cookie Policy
This Cookies Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them. The purpose of this policy is to provide you with clear information about:
- What cookies are and how they work
- The types of cookies we use on our websites
- Why we use these cookies and the purposes they serve
- Your rights and choices regarding cookies
We are committed to transparency about how we collect and use data. This policy forms part of our broader commitment to data protection and privacy, working alongside our Privacy Policy to ensure you understand and can control how your information is used when you visit our websites.
By providing this information, we aim to help you make informed decisions about your cookie preferences and ensure compliance with applicable data protection and privacy laws, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).
At any time you can change or withdraw your consent from the cookie declaration on our website. Your consent applies to the following domains: storm3.com
What are cookies?
How do we use cookies?
Our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes.
- First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function correctly, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
- Third-party cookies are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and to provide you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
Types of cookies do we use?
Necessary
Necessary cookies are essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website and do so while keeping you anonymous. Below shows a breakdown of the necessary cookies we use:
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | 1 hour | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
| wt_consent | 1 year | The WebToffee GDPR Cookie Consent plugin sets this cookie to store the user’s consent preferences, allowing the website to recognise those choices on future visits. The cookie does not collect or store any personal or identifiable information about the visitor. |
| _cfuvid | session | Cloudflare sets this cookie to track users across sessions to optimize user experience by maintaining session consistency and providing personalized services |
| rc::a | never | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| wpEmojiSettingsSupports | session | WordPress sets this cookie when a user interacts with emojis on a WordPress site. It helps determine if the user's browser can display emojis properly. |
| rc::c | session | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | 6 months | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. |
| _GRECAPTCHA | 6 months | Google Recaptcha service sets this cookie to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| rc::f | never | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| rc::b | session | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
Functional
Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing content from the website on social media platforms, to collect feedback, and other third-party features.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 6 months | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | never | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | never | The cookie ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY is used by YouTube to store the last search result entry that was clicked by the user. This information is used to improve the user experience by providing more relevant search results in the future. |
| yt-remote-device-id | never | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. |
| yt-remote-session-name | session | The yt-remote-session-name cookie is used by YouTube to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | session | The yt-remote-fast-check-period cookie is used by YouTube to store the user's video player preferences for embedded YouTube videos. |
| yt-remote-session-app | session | The yt-remote-session-app cookie is used by YouTube to store user preferences and information about the interface of the embedded YouTube video player. |
| yt-remote-cast-available | session | The yt-remote-cast-available cookie is used to store the user's preferences regarding whether casting is available on their YouTube video player. |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | session | The yt-remote-cast-installed cookie is used to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
Analytics
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with our website. These cookies help provide information on metrics like the number of visitors, bounce rates, traffic source, etc.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. |
| _gid | 1 day | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
| _gat_UA-* | 1 minute | Google Analytics sets this cookie for user behaviour tracking. |
| _ga_* | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. |
| YSC | session | YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. |
Advertisement
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customised ads.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| yt.innertube::nextId | never | YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| yt.innertube::requests | never | YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
Others
Other uncategorised cookies are those that are being analysed and have not been classified into a category yet.
This Cookie Policy is found on all our websites and provides a detailed inventory of the cookies used on that website.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CDI | 1 year | Description is currently not available. |
| CL | 1 month | Description is currently not available. |
| CPA | 3 hours | Description is currently not available. |
| _zitok | 1 year | Description is currently not available. |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | 6 months | Description is currently not available. |
| __Secure-YEC | past | Description is currently not available. |
Control your cookie preferences
You can manage your cookies preferences by clicking on the “Settings” button on the cookie banner and enabling or disabling the cookie categories on the popup according to your preferences.
Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Manage consent” tab on your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit: www.allaboutcookies.org
