Cookies are small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics.
This site uses cookies (mainly from Google and WordPress) to deliver its services and to analyse traffic. These record information about your use of our website, including:
- Browser and device data
- For example, as IP address, device type, operating system and Internet browser type, screen resolution, operating system name and version, and device manufacturer and model.
- Usage data
- For example: as time spent on the website, pages visited, links clicked, and the pages that led or referred you to our website.
Your IP address and user agent are shared with Google and WordPress, together with performance and security metrics, to ensure quality of service, generate usage statistics and to detect and address abuse.
As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others.
You can disable cookies in your browser.
More information
We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at:
- The About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers
- How Google uses cookies
- Cookies set by WordPress plugin Jetpack
- Cookies set by WordPress plugin Hotjar
- User privacy of data collected by Hotjar
Cookies we use
For each cookie, we list the name, the provider, the type, and the expiry period.
Necessary
Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
__cfduid podbean.com HTTP 1 year
Cookie purpose description: Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic.
Source: https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
AWSELB podbean.com HTTP 1 year
Cookie purpose description: Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times.
Preferences
Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
lang cdn.syndication.twimg.com HTTP Session
Cookie purpose description: Remembers the user’s selected language version of a website
Statistics
@@History/@@scroll|# cherryleaf.com HTML Persistent
First found URL: https://www.cherryleaf.com/
Cookie purpose description: This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on this site. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie.
Source: https://cc.cdn.civiccomputing.com/8.0/cookieControl-8.0.min.js
@@History/@@scroll|# podbean.com HTML Persistent
Cookie purpose description: Used for podcast player history
@@History/@@scroll|# twitter.com HTML Persistent
Cookie purpose description: Unclassified
_at.hist.# podbean.com HTML Persistent
Cookie purpose description: Used by the social sharing platform AddThis to store the user’s usage history of the AddThis sharing widget
_ga, _gat, and _gid cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. Read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data
_ga cherryleaf.com HTTP 2 years
Cookie purpose description: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
Source: https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js
_gat cherryleaf.com HTTP Session
Cookie purpose description: Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate
Source: https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js
_gid cherryleaf.com HTTP Session
Cookie purpose description: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
Source: https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js
Marketing
__atuvc podbean.com HTTP 1 year
Cookie purpose description: Updates the counter of a website’s social sharing features.
Source: https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
__atuvs podbean.com HTTP Session
Cookie purpose description: Ensures that the updated counter is displayed to the user if a page is shared with the social sharing service, AddThis.
Source: https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
di2 addthis.com HTTP 1 year
Cookie purpose description: Social Sharing buttons
Source: https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
i/jot/syndication twitter.com Pixel Session
Source: https://syndication.twitter.com
loc addthis.com HTTP 1 year
Cookie purpose description: Geolocation, which is used to help providers determine how users who share information with each other are geographically located (state level).
Source: https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
NID google.com HTTP 6 months
Cookie purpose description: Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads for Google Plus users.
Source: https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js
ouid addthis.com HTTP 1 year
Cookie purpose description: Social Sharing buttons
Source: https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
r/collect doubleclick.net Pixel Session
Cookie purpose description: Podcast
Source: https://stats.g.doubleclick.net
uid addthis.com HTTP 1 year
Cookie purpose description: Creates a unique, machine-generated user ID. AddThis, which is owned by Clearspring Technologies, uses the user ID to make it possible for the user to share content across social networks and provide detailed statistics to various providers.
Source: https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
uvc addthis.com HTTP 1 year
Cookie purpose description: Detects how often the social sharing service, AddThis, encounters the same user.
Source: https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
xtc addthis.com HTTP 1 year
Cookie purpose description: Registers the user’s sharing of content via social media.
Source: https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
vc addthis.com HTTP 1 year
Cookie purpose description: Used by the social sharing platform AddThis
Source: https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Payment
simpay_wp_session cherryleaf.com HTTP Session
Cookie purpose description: When connecting to the credit card payment processor, it records the description of the item being purchased.
Source: cherryleaf.com