Breastfeeding Support places small files (cookies) onto your computer to improve your site experience. Cookies are used to measure how you use the website, and to keep track of your interactions as you use different website functionality. Cookies aren’t used to identify you personally.
Strictly necessary cookies
We set specific cookies for each user to identify session data. Such cookies are essential to the operation of our website. Other cookies are stored to keep track of whether you’ve seen one of our notification messages, so we know not to show it to you again. The following cookies are set for all users:
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | This cookie is used by PHP to uniquely identify the user’s session on the website and relates the visitor’s unique session to server side data. It is essential to the operation of our website and is classed as non-intrusive ‘Level 0’ | when you close your browser |
| cookiesandterms_consent_status | Saves a message to let us know that you’ve agreed to our cookies and terms consent message | 1 year |
Analytical/performance cookies
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure it’s meeting its users’ needs and to understand how we can further improve your experience on our site.
Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. We do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.
The following cookies are set by Google Analytics:
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Used to distinguish users | 2 years |
| _gat | Used to throttle request rate | 10 minutes |
You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies by changing your Google browser settings.
Functionality cookies
Registered members
We also set cookies for registered members. This allows users to stay logged into our website over multiple browser sessions, in addition to keeping track of personalised settings. The following cookies are set for registered users:
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| wordpress_ | WordPress cookie for a logged in user | when you close your browser |
| wordpress_logged_in_ | WordPress cookie for a logged in user | when you close your browser |
| wp-settings- | WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies for logged in users. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface | 1 year |
| wp-settings-time- | WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies for logged in users. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface | 1 year |
Embedded videos
YouTube
We embed videos from YouTube within our articles using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode via the youtube-nocookie.com domain. YouTube won’t store information about visitors on Breastfeeding Support unless they play the video. Read more about embedded videos on YouTube’s website.
Vimeo
We embed videos from Vimeo within our articles. To find out more about the cookies used for embedded videos, see Vimeo’s cookie policy.
Advertising cookies
We use Google AdSense to display adverts on our website. These adverts help us financially to keep the site running. Adverts use cookies and these differ depending on your location. To find out more about how Google AdSense uses cookies, see How AdSense uses cookies.
European Economic Area (EEA)
From 25th May 2018, we will only show non-personalised ads to users in the EEA. Non-personalised ads are targeted using contextual information rather than the past behavior of a user. Although these ads don’t use cookies for ads personalisation, they do use cookies to allow for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting, and to combat fraud and abuse.
Non-EEA Locations
In locations outside the EEA, we use cookies to personalise ads. We also share information about your use of our site with our advertising partners. You can opt out of personalised Google Adsense ads by changing your Ads Settings.
Further information
For further information see our Privacy Policy.
