About Cookies

The Accomplished Events website uses cookies. A “cookie” is a piece of information that is saved to the hard drive of your computer and remembers information about the configuration of your computer.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or session cookies.  A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. We may use both session and/ or persistent cookies on this website.   

How we use cookies

We may use the information we obtain from your use of our cookies for the following purposes:

To recognise your computer when you visit our website

To track you as you navigate our website

To improve our website’s usability

To analyse the use of our website In the administration of our website

To personalise our website for you

The cookies we use

_utma - This is for Google Analytics and is stored for 2 years

_utmb - This is for Google Analytics and is deleted on quitting the browser

_utmc - This is for Google Analytics and is deleted on quitting the browser 

_utmz - This is for Google Analytics and is stored for 6 months

CAKEPHP - This relates to the search and is stored for 48 hours

PHPSESSID - This relates to the search and is deleted on quitting the browser

TinyMCE_Widget - This relates to the website text editor and is deleted on quitting the browser

Blocking cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies.

In Internet explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy, and selecting “ Block all cookies”

In Firefox you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and un-checking “Accept cookies from sites” in the “privacy” box.

Blocking cookies will, however, have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies you may or may not be able to use parts of this website.

Deleting cookies.   

You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer.

In Internet Explorer, you must manually delete cookie files.

In Firefox, you can manually delete cookies by , first ensuring that cookies are to be deleted when you “clear private data” (this setting can be changed by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “settings in the “Private Data” box) and then clicking “Clear private data” in the “Tools” menu.

Obviously doing this may have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.