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Cookies & your choices
Last reviewed and scanned: 28 October 2026. This page explains the cookie notice on ippts.com, the cookies observed during our public-page scan, and how you can control cookies in your browser.
Who is responsible for this website?
This website is published by Steve Last under the IPPTS name. For questions about cookies or personal information, email steve@ippts.com. Read our Privacy & website information for wider information about personal data and enquiries.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information a website stores in your browser. A first-party cookie belongs to the website you are visiting. A third-party cookie belongs to another domain whose services or resources are used. Session cookies normally expire when the browser session ends; persistent cookies remain until their expiry or until you delete them.
What the current cookie notice does
The site uses Jetpack’s cookie notice. Selecting Accept dismisses the notice and stores the eucookielaw preference cookie for 365 days. This records the notice’s dismissal; it is not a category-by-category consent manager.
You can read this policy without accepting the notice. Continuing to browse does not, by itself, constitute valid consent to technologies that require consent. Where consent is legally required, the relevant technology must not be used before consent is obtained. The notice and this policy should not be understood as a guarantee that every third-party service is automatically blocked.
Cookie reference table: this website and its resources
The following entries were observed during the scan. The first belongs to ippts.com; the second belongs to an external Hostinger service. Cookie values and personal identifiers are not published.
| Cookie | Domain / scope | Provider | Purpose / category | Retention / expiry | Observed behaviour |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
eucookielaw | ippts.comFirst party; path / | Jetpack / IPPTS | Remembers that the visitor dismissed the cookie notice by selecting Accept. Preference / notice acknowledgement. | 365 days, as configured in the live Jetpack block. Persistent cookie; observed expiry 28 October 2027. | Absent before acceptance; observed after clicking Accept. JavaScript-accessible; not HttpOnly. |
__cf_bm | .hostinger.comThird party; path / | Cloudflare, protecting a Hostinger resource | Bot detection and protection of the external service. Security cookie. | Cloudflare documents expiry after 30 minutes of continuous inactivity. Observed expiry: 28 October 2026, 01:13 UTC. | Visible for a Hostinger resource during the scan. Its original creation by ippts.com was not established. Secure; HttpOnly; SameSite=None. |
Across the 13 public pages tested, no first-party ippts.com cookies were found before interacting with the notice. After selecting Accept, eucookielaw was present. No first-party Google Analytics or advertising cookie was detected on ippts.com in this scan. These are observations from the test session, not a promise that every visitor will receive identical results.
Other-domain cookies visible during the scan
The entries below belong to ipptsassociates.co.uk, not ippts.com. They were present in the test browser and visible when inspecting resources associated with that domain; the scan did not establish when they were first created. Their expiry times are consistent with settings made before this scan. Their presence is not evidence that ippts.com created them, and they are not included as first-party cookies of this website. They are listed separately so the scan record is transparent.
| Cookie | Cookie domain | Provider / identification | Purpose / category | Expiry observed in test browser |
|---|---|---|---|---|
cookielawinfo- | ipptsassociates.co.uk | CookieYes / Cookie Law Info | Remembers the necessary-cookie category setting on that website. Preference. | 27 October 2027, 00:05 UTC |
cookielawinfo- | ipptsassociates.co.uk | CookieYes / Cookie Law Info | Remembers the functional-cookie category setting on that website. Preference. | 27 October 2027, 00:05 UTC |
cookielawinfo- | ipptsassociates.co.uk | CookieYes / Cookie Law Info | Remembers the performance-cookie category setting on that website. Preference. | 27 October 2027, 00:05 UTC |
cookielawinfo- | ipptsassociates.co.uk | CookieYes / Cookie Law Info | Remembers the analytics-cookie category setting on that website. Preference; this is not itself a Google Analytics cookie. | 27 October 2027, 00:05 UTC |
cookielawinfo- | ipptsassociates.co.uk | CookieYes / Cookie Law Info | Remembers the advertising-cookie category setting on that website. Preference; its presence alone does not show permission was granted. | 27 October 2027, 00:05 UTC |
cookielawinfo- | ipptsassociates.co.uk | CookieYes / Cookie Law Info | Remembers the other-cookie category setting on that website. Preference. | 27 October 2027, 00:05 UTC |
_lscache_vary | ipptsassociates.co.uk | LiteSpeed Cache | Helps that website select the appropriate cached page version. Technical functionality. | 29 October 2026, 00:05 UTC |
_ga | .ipptsassociates.co.uk | Google Analytics | Distinguishes users for analytics on that website. Analytics. | 1 December 2027, 00:05 UTC |
_ga_R545WYLF8C | .ipptsassociates.co.uk | Google Analytics | Persists session state for that website’s analytics property. Analytics. | 1 December 2027, 00:05 UTC |
_ga_YRM7K6CXL0 | .ipptsassociates.co.uk | Google Analytics | Persists session state for that website’s analytics property. Analytics. | 1 December 2027, 00:05 UTC |
All of the other-domain entries above used path / and were persistent cookies. The dates are the recorded expiry dates in the test browser, rather than a verified statement of the other website’s configured lifetime. Google documents a default two-year lifetime for its analytics cookies, subject to site configuration and browser limits.
External resources and website previews
Our website previews fetch article information on the server and display thumbnail images from the original websites. Your browser may therefore contact those image-hosting domains. The site also loaded resources from CookieYes, Hostinger Reach and Jetpack/WordPress.com during the scan. A request to an external service may disclose technical information such as your IP address and browser details even when no cookie is detected.
CookieYes was installed and its script was present at the time of the scan, but no CookieYes consent cookie was detected for ippts.com. A script being present does not, by itself, establish that a particular cookie was set. When you follow a link to another website, its own privacy and cookie information applies.
How to manage or remove cookies
Use your browser’s privacy or site-data settings to view, block or delete cookies. You can remove the eucookielaw cookie for ippts.com and reload the site to see the Jetpack notice again. Clearing all site data may also remove other preferences. Blocking cookies may affect website functions.
For help, see the browser’s own support pages: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Apple Safari.
About this scan
The scan covered the homepage, contact and privacy pages, and all ten website showcase pages on 28 October 2026. It compared an ordinary visitor session before and after selecting Accept and checked browser cookie metadata, including HttpOnly cookies where access was available. It did not involve signing into WordPress, submitting personal information, or following external article links.
The scan did not inspect every externally linked website. Some external-domain inspection was unavailable, so it is not an exhaustive third-party audit. Browser settings, existing cookies, location, caching and later service changes can affect the results. No cookie values were retained in the scan report. We will need to review this table when the site’s services or cookie settings change.
Further information
See Jetpack’s cookie information, Cloudflare’s cookie documentation, Google’s analytics cookie documentation, and the ICO’s UK guidance on cookies and similar technologies.
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