Cookies

When You Wish Upon A Star is is committed to safeguarding the security of its website users and sets out below how cookies are used.

What Is A Website Cookie?

Website cookies are small text files that can be placed on your computer by the websites you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work as intended, provide the user with a more efficient experience and facilitate remarketing activities. For more information on cookies please visit here.

How We Use Cookies

We use session cookies (which expire when you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your device for a set period of time or until you delete them). These cookies may contain information (such as a unique user ID) that is used to store your preferences.

We use the following types of cookies for the purposes explained:

Cookie Type	Purpose
PHPSESSIONID	This cookie is used to enable essential operational features of the website, allowing us to operate web services as you request. This cookie does not contain any personal or identifiable information and is automatically deleted when you close your browser.
wish_cookie_policy	This records that a visitor to the website has accepted the use of cookies. This cookie will expire if a visitor does not return to the site within 1 Year. This cookie can be deleted at any time.
PERFORMANCE AND ANALYTICS	Youtube analytics is used to monitor the engagement with embedded video content. Youtube privacy guidelines are here.

Manage Your Cookie Usage

Web browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences. You can configure your browser to accept, reject or alert you every time a cookie is offered by a website.

If you choose to refuse cookies, doing so may impair your user experience by preventing certain elements of the website from functioning properly.

Information on opting out is provided below.

Cookie Type	Option to Opt Out
PHPSESSIONID	To opt out of cookie gathering on our favourite browser (Chrome) Settings / Privacy and Security / Site settings / Cookies and site data For other browsers check the help and settings for information on that particular browser
PERFORMANCE AND ANALYTICS	To manage how your data is used on Google services such as Youtube access via “My Account” settings on your Google Account.