Cookies

Cookie name

Expires

Information

sfhpt_173

End of session

These are temporary session cookie set by Joomla to keep a track of each individual visitor. It allows Joomla to send the correct information to each website visitor without getting each one mixed up. They are essential for the smooth operation of the website.

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d1e2d0ff8d473023d728724f07d0857b

SID

End of session

These are cookies set by the Google Maps component within Joomla. Google Maps is used on direction pages to provide detailed information on how to locate the office.  Google Maps stores up to 7 cookies: SID, HSID, SSID, APISID NID and PREF. Google's interactive maps are used because they provide a helpful way for visitors to identify how best to travel to the office.

HSID

SSID

APISID

SAPISID

PREF

NID

aab101036e5b12b102545b5374a6ff99

12 months

This Joomla cookie saves the username and password details so that the visitor doesn’t need to type in the username and password again to login on their next visit.

Cookie

Expires

Purpose

reg_fb_gate

End of session

The Like button lets a user share content with friends on Facebook. When the user clicks the Like button on your site, a story appears in the user's friends' News Feed with a link back to your website.

reg_fb_ref

_e_00bL_0

_utma

2 years

Used by Google Analytics. Each unique browser that visits a page on the site is provided with a unique ID via the __utma cookie. In this way, subsequent visits to the website via the same browser are recorded as belonging to the same (unique) visitor. Thus, if a person interacted with the website using different browsers, the Analytics reports would track this activity under two unique visitors. Similarly if the same browser were used by two different visitors, but with a separate computer account for each, the activity would be recorded under two unique visitor IDs. On the other hand, if the browser happens to be used by two different people sharing the same computer account, one unique visitor ID is recorded, even though two unique individuals accessed the site.

_utmb

30 min

Google Analytics uses these two cookies to establish a session. If either of these two cookies is absent, further activity by the user initiates the start of a new session.

_utmc

End of session

_utmz

6 months

When visitors reach the site via a search engine result, a direct link, or an ad that links to the page, Google Analytics stores the type of referral information in a cookie. The parameters in the cookie value string are parsed and sent in the GIF Request (in the utmcc variable). The expiration date for the cookie is set as 6 months into the future. This cookie gets updated with each subsequent page view to the site; thus it is used to determine visitor navigation within the site.