Cookie Management
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Cookie management is an integral part of privacy compliance. It gives individual website users control over what level of tracking they are comfortable to enable during their time on your site.
Consent is collected using a pop-up box or banner that alerts the website visitor the first time they visit the site.
The types of cookies are categorised as:
Necessary and essential are functional cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation, access to secure areas of the website and enabling the use of a service you have explicitly requested. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
Analytical cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously. Those cookies are used exclusively for statistical purposes.
Web analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, may only collect behavioural data from visitors that have given permission for analytical cookies to be stored during their visit.
This acceptance rate varies by industry and jurisdiction, but can dramatically affect website analytics.
In the case that the user only accepts necessary/essential cookies, their activity will be omitted.
Note that the hub dashboard provides some information about page views and overall hub activity.
This is GDPR compliant, as rather than tracking the user, we are analysing the pages themselves instead and, where applicable, have anonymised the data.
Wavecast's recommended cookie management solution is provided by Openli.
Once installed, the solution helps clients remain compliant with GDPR and ePrivacy Directive, even as privacy regulations continue to evolve.
Some of the other reasons Openli is recommended:
Localisation as standard. Cookie laws can vary from country to country. Openli adapts the consent widget to ensure compliance with the legal framework of where the user is accessing the site.
Automatic updates for new cookies. Rather than having to maintain a static document, Openli auto-updates when new cookies are added to your website. It's especially important for us as a publishing platform because it can be a nightmare to keep track of cookies manually. Any time you embed a third party widget or iframe, a whole load of new cookies can be added onto your site. That's why automated updates are best.
Compliance with the latest laws. Put simply, when the law changes so does the policy meaning you are always compliant.
No shady UX tactics. Your users have an easy way to toggle cookies on and off, providing them with the option to accept or reject cookies by purpose.
It makes consent audits a breeze. Openli also makes sure you can prove you have collected the right consent, a requirement of GDPR, ePrivacy directive and local interpretations of the law. It means that if you ever need to provide an audit of individual consent, we have it covered.
Wavecast maintains a list of essential cookies that ensure the functionality of each hub.
Necessary
CookieConsent
Openli
Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain
1 year
HTTP Cookie
Necessary
debug
Amazon
Required as part of Amazon web services. Allows correct delivery of content.
Persistent
HTML Local Storage
Necessary
jwplayer.bandwidthEstimate
Estimates user bandwidth to provide most appropriate video stream quality to the live player
Session
HTTP Cookie
Necessary
jwplayer.mute
Tracks mute/ unmute state of live video player
Session
HTTP Cookie
Necessary
jwplayer.qualityLabel
Allows user to manually select live player video quality
Session
HTTP Cookie
Necessary
jwplayer.volume
Allows user to chose volume level
Session
HTTP Cookie
Necessary
jwplayerLocalId
Jplayer video player local daemon.
Session
HTTP Cookie
Necessary
on_auth_redirect_to_492
Used to redirect the user to the approriate page after sign up/sign in.
1 day
HTTP Cookie
Necessary
pap_session
Authentication - We need to set cookies for the session to allow users to access the content and any other account based functions. Content cannot be protected without these cookies and it is critical for site functioning.
1 day
HTTP Cookie
Necessary
pap_wcaid_492
Critical for site functioning and engagement reporting -These cookies are used for user tracking.
5 days
HTTP Cookie
Necessary
pusherTransportEncrypted
Websockets connection. Required for real time updates (e.g. live feed comments)
Persistent
HTML Local Storage
Necessary
src_492_referer_host
Critical for site functioning and engagement reporting. These cookies are used for user tracking.
6 days
HTTP Cookie
Necessary
src_492_referer_path
Critical for site functioning and engagement reporting. These cookies are used for user tracking.
6 days
HTTP Cookie
Necessary
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Wistia
Wistia is a video hosting platform and is used to deliver video content. Collects data on visitor interaction with the website's video-content.
Persistent
HTML Local Storage
Necessary
XSRF-TOKEN
Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie is essential for the security of the website and visitor.
1 day
HTTP Cookie
Analytical
_ga
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
2 years
HTTP Cookie
Analytical
_ga_#
Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit.
2 years
HTTP Cookie
This list may vary once integrations, embed codes and plugins are added.
Request cookie management is installed on your hub through Wavecast technical support. Our install service includes:
Openli setup and configuration under our Wavecast Partner license.
The software scans your website regularly to identify and classify cookies.
Customise the pop-up box to feature your primary hub colour.
Maintain user consents should you ever require them for data protection audits.
We're on hand with standard Wavecast technical support.
