This page explains everything you need to know about “Cookies” and how Cookies are used on Imagine Forest. On this page, “you” or “your” refers to the user and “we” or “us” refers to Imagine Forest.
All websites use Cookies. Cookies are small files put onto your computer that contain certain information about you. They do not contain any sensitive information about you, like name or address.
But can allow us to distinguish you from other users on the site. Cookies cannot harm your computer in any way.
Imagine Forest uses Cookies to improve its websites features and services, so you can enjoy the site more. One way we use Cookies is to remember useful stuff about your member’s profile, such as to obtain certain badges. We use different types of Cookies on our site. These are described below.
“Analytical” Cookies: These help us to count the number of visitors on our site and how they move around the website. And which pages or actions are used the most.
“Session” Cookies: These Cookies help us to see when you are logged into your account and what activities you are completing on the website.
“Persistent” Cookies: These Cookies are stored between your visits to our site. These allow us to remember your preferences or actions when you log back into the site.
“Targeting” Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to your and your interests. They collect information about your browsing habits and the websites you visit.
If you want to block Cookies, you can check the settings in your browser. And this will let you block either all or certain types of Cookies. Please, ask your parent or guardian if you need any more help. It is very important to note, that if you do block Cookies this will mean that you might not be able to access all areas of our site and all features.
Below is a list of Cookies we use:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These Cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features.
| Cookie Name | Cookie Overview |
|---|---|
| martys_vault XSRF-TOKEN |
These are a unique security token, used to prevent and block unknown user requests to the site. Also used to validate the current user once logged in. |
| marty_seen | This cookie is used to track if a member has logged into the site. |
| cookie_policy_new_feature_popup cookie_policy_sigup_popup |
This cookie is used to track if user had seen the popup and have hidden it. |
| cookie_policy cookie_policy_setting |
This cookie are used to track if a user has agreed with our cookie policy and stores user's cookie settings. |
| remember_web_* | This cookie is used to keep the member logged in. |
| tz | This cookie stores your local timezone. |
| disable_ads | This cookie toggles whether to show ads or not |
Performance Cookies
These Cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site.
They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular, see how visitors move around the site and provide a better user experience in the future.
All information these Cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
If you do not allow these Cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.
| Cookie Name | Cookie Overview |
|---|---|
| _ga _gid |
Google Analytics cookie is used to distinguish users when collecting information about page visits. This cookie helps us to identify website areas to be improved and these cookies d not allow Imagine Forest to identify a user personally as no personal information or data is tracked. |
| _gat | Google Analytics cookie is used by Google to monitor request rate toward their servers. |
| __gads | This cookie is set by Google and stored under the name doubleclick.net and under imagineforest.com. This cookie is used to track how many times users see a particular advert which helps in measuring the success of the campaign and calculate the revenue generated by the campaign. These cookies can only be read from the domain that it is set on so it will not track any data while browsing through another sites. |
| fr sb datr reg_fb_ref reg_ext_ref reg_fb_gate |
This Cookie is placed by Facebook. It enables us to measure, optimize and build audiences for advertising campaigns served on Facebook |
User Engagement Cookies
These Cookies are used to engage users with third party services like AddThis and Disqus
| Cookie Name | Cookie Overview |
|---|---|
| __atuvc __atuvs uid uvc mus cw_id |
These Cookies are created and used by AddThis social sharing addon, in order to make sure users see the updated count if the user shares a page. |
| disqus_unique __jid __utmb __utmc __utma __utmz __utmt |
These Cookies are created and used by Disqus social commenting system. |