At Stuart Davies Fine Art (Stuart Davies EI), we love cookies…chocolate chip, macadamia nut, ginger snap, oatmeal. Sadly, this has nothing to do with those kinds of cookies. Sorry!
What’s a cookie?
Cookies are teeny text files placed on your machine when you visit this site. Those from this site serve one of three purposes:
- Strictly Necessary – the site won’t work without them
- Performance – helps us understand how visitors use the site and/or helps us improve it
- Functionality- improves how the site works and/or adds personalized glitz for service
- Marketing
What cookies do we use?
This site uses cookies for one of those three reasons…none of them nefarious and creepy…unlike the big boys that surveille and manipulate your every move in the name of advertising.
Type 1
Type 2
PHPSESSID (sessions cookie)
wfwaf-authcookie-(hash) (related to Security)
wfCBLBypass (related to Security)
Type 3
NID (Google recaptcha)
googtrans (for when using the Translator)
GPS (youtube)
PREF (youtube)
VISITOR_INFO1 (youtube)
YSC (youtube)
Certain services like youtube and Google recaptcha employ their own cookies as a result of this site using their services. So when you subscribe to our newsletter or watch any of our videos, you’re accepting those cookies. That seems fair. We don’t have much say in that matter. However, we’ve done away with using Google Analytics as a performance and target cookie. Bad! Bad cookie!
That doesn’t mean that other third parties aren’t planting cookies on your machine. If you click a link on this website that takes you to an outside site, that site may employ 3rd party cookies. This site has no control over another site’s cookie usage.
About 4th Party Cookies
As for type 4 cookies, when it comes to this scale of consumerism, we prefer an actual cookie.
Refusing Cookies
As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better, as things will work as they should. However, you may prefer to disable cookies altogether via your browser options. (I do!) May I suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers? Of course, you can also choose not to use this site, but then you’d miss out on all the cool stuff that’s here.