Cookie Management

Types of cookies

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.

Acceptance rates

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.

Cookie management

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.

Essential cookies

Wavecast maintains a list of essential cookies that ensure the functionality of each hub.

Classification	Name	Provider	Purpose	Expiry	Type
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	jplayer.org	Estimates user bandwidth to provide most appropriate video stream quality to the live player	Session	HTTP Cookie
Necessary	jwplayer.mute	jplayer.org	Tracks mute/ unmute state of live video player	Session	HTTP Cookie
Necessary	jwplayer.qualityLabel	jplayer.org	Allows user to manually select live player video quality	Session	HTTP Cookie
Necessary	jwplayer.volume	jplayer.org	Allows user to chose volume level	Session	HTTP Cookie
Necessary	jwplayerLocalId	jplayer.org	Jplayer video player local daemon.	Session	HTTP Cookie
Necessary	on_auth_redirect_to_492	wavecast.io	Used to redirect the user to the approriate page after sign up/sign in.	1 day	HTTP Cookie
Necessary	pap_session	wavecast.io	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	wavecast.io	Critical for site functioning and engagement reporting -These cookies are used for user tracking.	5 days	HTTP Cookie
Necessary	pusherTransportEncrypted	wavecast.io	Websockets connection. Required for real time updates (e.g. live feed comments)	Persistent	HTML Local Storage
Necessary	src_492_referer_host	wavecast.io	Critical for site functioning and engagement reporting. These cookies are used for user tracking.	6 days	HTTP Cookie
Necessary	src_492_referer_path	wavecast.io	Critical for site functioning and engagement reporting. These cookies are used for user tracking.	6 days	HTTP Cookie
Necessary	undefined	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	wavecast.io	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	Google	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.	2 years	HTTP Cookie
Analytical	_ga_#	Google	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.

How to install

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.