Cookie Policy

About our Writing Ninja cookie policy.

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them on Writing Ninja. You should read this policy to understand what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used and how to control the cookie preferences. For further information on how we use, store and keep your personal data secure, see our Privacy Policy.

You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.

Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.

Your consent applies to the following domains: www.writing.ninja

Your current state: No consent given. Manage your consent.

What are cookies ?

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. The cookies are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make the website more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.

How do we use cookies ?

As most of the online services, our website uses cookies first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes. The first-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

What types of cookies do we use ?

The cookies used on our website are grouped into the following categories.

Essential Website Cookies

Essential Website Cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Writing Ninja Sites and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. This category only includes cookies that ensure the website's basic functionalities and security features and do not store any personal information. You cannot refuse them without impacting how Writing Ninja and Bloggin' Ninja Sites function.

Display Video

We use third-party services such as Vimeo and/or YouTube to embed our our video in an embeddable video player on our site. Disabling this cookie category will result in missing content (you'll see a puzzle piece graphic and or a message instead of our awesome content!). We never store any user sensitive data - we just want you to be able to see the video 😉

Analytics and Customization

These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Writing Ninja Sites are being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Sites and application for you. These cookies may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. While these cookies help us make improvements to our sites and are important to us, they are non-essential to the use of the Writing Ninja Sites. However, without these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable.

The below list details the cookies used in our website.

Cookie	Description
Essential Website Cookies
PHPSESSID	This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users' unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed.
JSESSIONID	Used by sites written in JSP. General purpose platform session cookies that are used to maintain users' state across page requests.
__cfduid	The cookie is set by CloudFare. The cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address d apply security settings on a per-client basis. It doesnot correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information.
pmpro_visit	The cookie is set our Membership service. The cookie is used to manage user memberships. You can not use any Writing Ninja or Bloggin' Ninja service without this enabled.
viewed_cookie_policy	The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Non Necessary".
Display Video
vuid	We use Vimeo for video display. We do not store any personal information. For more information, please read the Vimeo Privacy Statement.
Analytics and Customization
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wassup	We use this analytics cookie for website statistics. It helps us see Wassup with our site. This data is not shared with third parties.
_ga	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, camapign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randoly generated number to identify unique visitors.
_gid	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form.
_gat	This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites.
wassup_screen	We use this analytics cookie for website statistics. It helps us see Wassup with our site. This data is not shared with third parties.
_gat_gtag_UA_72764074_4	Google uses this cookie to distinguish users.
_pin_unauth	We use this Google Tag Manager cookie for website statistics. This data is not shared with third parties.
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How can I control the cookie preferences ?

You can manage your cookies preferences by clicking on the “Settings” button and enabling or disabling the cookie categories on the popup according to your preferences.

Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Privacy & Cookie Policy” tab on your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.

In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.