Cookie Policy

We use cookies to make our websites more user-friendly. Find out about the main types of cookies we use, and what we use them for.

(Updated 16 December 2019)

The data we collect using cookies helps us understand our customers better so that we can provide a more focused user experience. Using the knowledge of your previous visits to our website, Andy Edwards Biz can enhance subsequent visits by tailoring our content to match your requirements.

We use cookies principally because we want to make our websites and mobile applications user-friendly, and we are interested in anonymous user behaviour. Generally our cookies don’t store sensitive or personally identifiable information such as your name and address or credit card details.

In the unlikely event that our websites use cookies to store personal information about you, Andy Edwards Biz encrypts the personal data to prevent unauthorised use by anyone else.

Here’s a list of the main types of cookies we use, and what we use them for. 

(When we mention “cookies”, we also mean web beacons and other technologies that collect information in a similar way to cookies on websites or emails. When we mention “websites”, we also mean mobile applications and emails.)

ESSENTIAL COOKIES

Without these cookies, our site will not function.

NAMEDESCRIPTIONDURATION
WordPress
comment_author_[hash]
comment_author_email_[hash]
comment_author_url_[hash]
The cookie comment_author_[hash] cookies is set to remember the value entered into the comment form’s name field, the cookie comment_author_email_[hash] is set to remember the value entered into the comment form’s email field and comment_author_url_[hash] is set to remember the value entered into the comment form’s URL field.1 year
wordpress_logged_in_[hash]
wordpress_test_cookie wp-settings-{time}-[UID]
wordpress_[hash]
WordPress uses the cookie wordpress_[hash] to store the authentication details on login. The authentication details include the username and double hashed copy of the password.15 Days
woocommerce_cart_hash
woocommerce_items_in_cart
wp_woocommerce_session_
woocommerce_recently_viewed
store_notice[notice id]
WooCommerce uses these cookies to create unique codes for each customer who uses our online shop to update their cart and data.Session
Session
2 Days
Session
Session

NON-ESSENTIAL COOKIES

These cookies can be turned off by refusing to accept them.  You can change your preferences at any time by clicking on our Privacy & Cookies Policy Tab in the left bottom corner.

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Google Analytics__utma
__utmb
__utmc
__utmz
___utmv
_gat
_gid
_ga
Anonymously tracks use of website. These cookies are set or updated on any page visited. Several cookies are set but all serve the same purpose: to see how people reached the site and used it, including search terms used and referring sites.Variable