Cookie Policy

  1. COOKIES POLICY

Last updated: 24 November 2018

The Musikholics website (the “Website”) uses cookies to deliver a better and more personalised service to users. This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how they are used on the Website and how to manage their use.

WHAT IS A COOKIE?

Cookies are small text files containing small amounts of information which are sent to and stored on your computer, smartphone or other device when you access a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device as well as remembering your actions and preferences, helping you browse the website more efficiently and helping improve your experience while using the website.

USE OF COOKIES ON THE WEBSITE

Cookies are used on the Website for a number of reasons. This includes the following:

  1. allowing users to log on to their account;

  2. allowing users to choose log-in preferences;

  3. to monitor and collect information about transactions placed on the Website; and

  4. for fraud prevention purposes and generally to safeguard privacy.

Cookies are generally used to improve and enhance the user experience. Some of the cookies we use are essential for the Website to operate.

 Musikholics use of cookies on the Website falls into the following categories:

Session Management – these cookies are essential to enable use of the Website, they manage session information and enable users to navigate through the Website.

Functionality – these cookies store information which enables us to remember user preferences e.g. preferred language, sort types, media settings. They are also used to improve users’ experience by, for example, stopping users from being shown the same message twice.

Fraud Prevention – these cookies store information which helps us stop fraudulent use of the Website.

Tracking these cookies enable us to store information about how users landed on the Website. We need to record this so that we can appropriately remunerate our affiliates.

Analysis – these cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of users and to see how users move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way the Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily and to deliver adverts and information which are more relevant to each user and their interests and to monitor the effectiveness of such adverts and information.

Where links are provided on the Website to third party websites it is important to remember that those websites will have their own cookies and privacy policies which will govern any information you may submit. If you decide to use any linked third party websites please read their cookies and privacy policies before doing so.

WHAT COOKIES WE USE?

We can classify cookies into two separate categories, being those which are necessary for the functionality of the website, and those which we collect to analyse your activity to improve how the website works.

The table below gives you a brief explanation of what types of cookies we collect, what the source of the cookies is, why we use the cookie, how long we retain the cookie, and whether the cookie is necessary for the website’s functionality or not:

Cookie

Source

Retention

Purpose

Required

__cfduid

CloudFlare

1 year

Used to provide security

Yes

_ga

Google Analytics

2 years

Used to collect stats

No

_gat

Google Analytics

1 year

Used to collect stats

No

_gid

Google Analytics

24 Hours

Used to collect stats

No

PHPSESSID

Musikholics

Session

Session Token

Yes

_ym_d Yandex Metrika 1 year Used to collect stats  No
_ym_isad Yandex Metrika 24 Hours Used to collect stats No
_ym_uid Yandex Metrika 1 Year Used to collect stats No
_ym_visorc_ Yandex Metrika 1 Hour Used to collect stats No
rml_1_lastquery Musikholics 1 Year Used to collect content usage No
wfwaf-authcookie- Musikholics 24 Hours Used to provide security Yes
wordpress_gdpr_allowed_services Musikholics 6 Months Used to ensure our compliance with the GDPR Yes
wordpress_gdpr_cookies_allowed Musikholics 6 Months Used to ensure our compliance with the GDPR Yes
wordpress_gdpr_cookies_declined Musikholics 6 Months Used to ensure our compliance with the GDPR Yes
wordpress_gdpr_terms_conditions_accepted Musikholics 6 Months Used to ensure our compliance with the GDPR Yes
wordpress_logged_in_ Musikholics Session

Used to distinguish users

Yes
wordpress_sec_ Musikholics Session

Used for security reasons

Yes
wordpress_test_cookie Musikholics Session

Used to check website functionality

No
wp-settings Musikholics Session

Used to check website functionality

No
wp-settings-time Musikholics 1 Year

Used to check website functionality

No

We only use cookies in the manner as explained in this Cookie Policy. Where the cookies used could identify a natural person, then these are treated in the manner as described in our Privacy Policy.

If you want to delete any cookies already stored on your computer or stop the cookies that keep track of your browsing patterns on the Website, you can do so by deleting your existing cookies and/or altering your browser’s privacy settings (the process you follow will differ from browser to browser). If you would like more information on cookies and on how to disable them or change your privacy settings, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Your browser’s ‘Help’ function should also tell you how to do this.

Please note that deleting our cookies or disabling our future cookies means that you may not be able to access certain areas or features of the Website. For example, if your browser is set to disable ‘session’ cookies, you won’t be able to log on to your Musikholics account..

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