Somatic Tao’s Cookie Policy
Your privacy is important to us, and we want to communicate with our website users in a way which has their consent, and which is in line with UK law on data protection including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This legislation comes into effect on 25th May 2018 and will replace previous data privacy law, giving more rights to you as an individual and more obligations to organisations holding your personal data.
One of the rights is a right to be informed, which means we have to give you even more information than we did before about the way in which we use, share and store your personal information, including the data of cookies used on Somatic Tao’s website.
This means that we are publishing a new privacy notice so you can access this information, along with information about the increased rights you have in relation to the information we hold on you and the legal basis on which we are using it. We have also added a cookie consent box to the footer of our website pages.
The following section explains what cookies are, which ones are collected by Parmar Staffing and how they are used on Somatic Tao’s website.
How We Collect Information
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by the websites that you visit. They are commonly used in order to make websites work by tracking goods that you have placed in a basket, or work more efficiently by remembering your login details, as well as to provide information about the sites usage to the owners of the site.
Types of Cookies
There are three types of cookies dropped and collected by websites. With some exceptions (i.e. websites that fundamentally require cookies in order for website functionality – see below) from 26th May 2012, all cookies must be consented to by a site’s users.
| Cookie Type | Description |
| Moderately intrusive | Embedded third-party content and social
media-plugins Advertising campaign optimisation |
| Minimally intrusive | Web analytics / metrics
Personalised content / interface |
| Necessary for Website Functionality
(Exempt from changes to privacy regulations) |
Stop multiple form submissions
Load balancing Transaction specific |
Somatic Tao collects the following anonymous cookies for tracking purposes.
| Name | Description | Expiration |
| __utma | This cookie is typically written to the browser upon the first visit to your site from that web browser. If the cookie has been deleted by the browser operator, and the browser subsequently visits your site, a new __utma cookie is written with a different unique ID. This cookie is used to determine unique visitors to your site and it is updated with each page view. Additionally, this cookie is provided with a unique ID that Google Analytics uses to ensure both the validity and accessibility of the cookie as an extra security measure. | 2 years from set/update. |
| __utmb | This cookie is used to establish and continue a user session with your site. When a user views a page on your site, the Google Analytics code attempts to update this cookie. If it does not find the cookie, a new one is written and a new session is established. Each time a user visits a different page on your site, this cookie is updated to expire in 30 minutes, thus continuing a single session for as long as user activity continues within 30-minute intervals. This cookie expires when a user pauses on a page on your site for longer than 30 minutes. You can modify the default length of a user session with the _setSessionCookieTimeout() method. | 30 minutes from set/update. |
| __utmc | This cookie is no longer used by the ga.js tracking code to determine session status.Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether or not to establish a new session for the user. For backwards compatibility purposes with sites still using the urchin.js tracking code, this cookie will continue to be written and will expire when the user exits the browser. However, if you are debugging your site tracking and you use the ga.js tracking code, you should not interpret the existence of this cookie in relation to a new or expired session. | Not set. |
| __utmz | This cookie stores the type of referral used by the visitor to reach your site, whether via a direct method, a referring link, a website search, or a campaign such as an ad or an email link. It is used to calculate search engine traffic, ad campaigns and page navigation within your own site. The cookie is updated with each page view to your site. | 6 months from set/update. |
WordPress Cookies
WordPress websites also collect cookies for commenters. As the Somatic Tao website is built using WordPress, these cookies apply to our users.
When visitors comment on the Somatic Tao blog, they will have cookies stored on their computer. This is purely for convenience, so that the visitor will not be required to re-type all their information again when they want to leave another comment in the future.
Three cookies are set for commenters:
comment_author
comment_author_email
comment_author_url
The commenter cookies are set to expire a little less than one year from the time they’re set.
Third Party Cookies
Users of the site who wish to share Somatic Tao’s content socially using Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin or Google+ (the platforms which may currently be enabled on the website to allow this function) may have cookies stored on their computers from these third party websites.
Cookies are collected from third party sites so that you can be logged in to your account on their site and share our content simply and easily.
For more information on the cookie policies of these third party sites, please visit their websites. You will be able to control the way cookies are used when you are signed into your accounts on these sites through the privacy settings they have made available to you.
Facebook Privacy Policy https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/other
Twitter Privacy Policy https://twitter.com/privacy
Google+ Privacy Policy http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Linkedin Privacy Policy http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=privacy_policy
Prohibiting the Collection of Cookies
If you would like to prevent Somatic Tao from collecting cookies when you visit our site, you will need to update your privacy settings in your browser. You can control the kinds of cookies you accept there.
http://www.google.co.uk/goodtoknow/manage-data/
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/
http://privacy.microsoft.com/en-gb/default.mspx
http://www.apple.com/uk/privacy/use-of-cookies
Opting out of cookie usage
If you want to control which cookies you accept. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies or to alert you every time a cookie is offered by a website’s server. Most browsers automatically accept cookies. You can set your browser option so that you will not receive cookies and you can also delete existing cookies from your browser. You may find that some parts of the site will not function properly if you have refused cookies. 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.allaboutcookies.org.