What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade certain elements of the sites functionality.
How does this website use Cookies
User Login
This website runs on WordPress and automatically creates cookies to authenticate your login username and password, determine your logged in or out status, and set editing permissions.
Cookies may also be created to save your preferences. For example, when you select the box for the login page to remember your username.
- On login, wordpress uses the wordpress_[hash] cookie to store your authentication details. Its use is limited to the admin console area, /wp-admin/
- After login, wordpress sets the wordpress_logged_in_[hash] cookie, which indicates when you’re logged in, and who you are, for most interface use.
- WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.
More info on WordPress cookies
Comment Form
The comments form is powered by wpDiscuz and may set cookies to remember your user information across devices.
wpDiscuz uses cookies to provide functionality and to recognize website commenters across different devices. These cookies are currently set to be deleted when the browser is closed.
When visitors comment on the blog, they too get cookies stored on their computer. This is purely a convenience, so that the visitor won’t need to re-type all their information again when they want to leave another comment. Three cookies are set for commenters:
- comment_author_{HASH}
- comment_author_email_{HASH}
- comment_author_url_{HASH}
The commenter cookies are set to expire a little under one year from the time they’re set.
More info on WordPress cookies
Social Media
Some of the social media sharing features on this website may generate cookies to track who started following Independent Comic Database pages on Facebook and Twitter. There may also be cookies used for signing into the website though a social media network.
Analytics and Research
To help improve and understand how people use the website we collect data with Google Analytics.
- _utma collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as the dates for the first and most recent visit.
- _utmb registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit.
- _utmc registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit.
- _utmz collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used.
- _ga registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
- _gat used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.
- _gid registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
More info on Google Analytics cookies
Advertising
These cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. The cookies also help measure ad performance.
DoubleClick in partnership with Google Adsense is used to generate most advertisements.
- DSID Used by Google DoubleClick for re-targeting, optimization , reporting and attribution of online adverts.
- IDE used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.
- test_cookie used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies.
More info on DoubleClick cookies
ProjectWonderful, a smaller advertising service, is also used. This service does not create cookies for visiting users of this website.
More info on ProjectWonderful privacy policy
Disabling Cookies
It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them and in case they are used to provide a service that you use. Disabling cookies on this website may decrease your user experience.
You can manually prevent the setting of any of these cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this).
You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing Google’s opt-out browser add-on to your browser.
To opt out of DoubleClick (also Google Adsense) and other interest-based advertising from certain third-party advertising partners, you can visit optout.aboutads.info and www.networkadvertising.org/choices.
You can also opt out of interest-based Google Ads using Google’s Ads Settings.
More Information
If you are still looking for more information then you can contact Tiina Vilu at indiecomicdatabase@gmail.com
Last Updated: May 29, 2018