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Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Depending on your access level and actions on the site, various preference based cookies may be set to enrich your experience. These cookies are used to remember your theme, language and item marking preferences, etc.

Essential Cookies

These cookies are required to enable core functionality and can't be rejected.
Essential Cookies
ips4_oauth_authorize
This cookie temporarily stores session data if you use a third party login processor.

ips4_member_id
This cookie stores the member id of the currently logged in member

ips4_login_key
This cookie is used to save the session identifier.

ips4_clearAutosave
This cookie stores the editor identifiers to truncate the automatically saved content.

ips4_lastSearch
This cookie stores the last search timestamp.

ips4_device_key
This cookie stores the device identifier.

ips4_IPSSessionFront
This cookie contains the ID of your current session.

ips4_loggedIn
This cookie is set after login, it is used by caching mechanisms to identify if you are logged in.

ips4_noCache
This cookie is set when a guest members session requires that the output is not cached / coming from the cache.

ips4_hasJS
This cookie is used to identify if Javascript is enabled in the browser.

ips4_cookie_consent
This cookie stores the cookie consent preferences.

ips4_cookie_consent_optional
This cookie stores the cookie consent opt-in status for guests.

ips4_forumpass_*
These cookies are used to track authentication for password protected forums. There may be multiple cookies with similar names where * is replaced with the forum ID.

ips4_cm_reg
This cookie stores an invoice ID if a purchase is being made during registration

ips4_location
This cookie stores an estimated location of the member, it is used to calculate taxes according to the members region.

ips4_currency
This cookie stores the currency that the member has selected to view the site in.

ips4_guestTransactionKey
This cookie stores a transaction key for a guest member, it is used to identify the guest when viewing a pending transaction.


Third Party Cookies

 

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies. 

 

The Cookies We Set

  • Account related cookies

    If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

  • Login related cookies

    We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

  • Email newsletters related cookies

    This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

  • Orders processing related cookies

    This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.

  • Forms related cookies

    When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

  • Site preferences cookies

    In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

 

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

  • This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

    For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

  • The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.

    For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.

For more general information on cookies, please read the Cookies Policy article.

However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:

  • Email: owtb@hotmail.co.uk

How do I change my cookie settings?

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
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