Lotro-Wiki.com:Cookie Statement

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Cookies

The site sets a temporary session cookie on a visitor's computer whenever a page is visited. Readers who do not intend to log in or edit may deny this cookie; it will be deleted at the end of the browser's session. More cookies may be set when one logs in to maintain logged-in status. If one saves a user name or password in one's browser, that information will be saved for up to 30 days or 180 days if selecting the keep me logged in option, and this information will be resent to the server on every visit. Contributors using a public machine who do not wish to show their username to future users of the machine should clear these cookies after use.

(The following applies only when using the default Vector skin.)

  • Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to any website to serve ads on this website.
  • Google's use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to this website on other websites.
  • Users may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the ads preference manager and aboutads.info site.

To avoid these third-party cookies on this site select the MonoBook skin within the appearance tab for your account preferences. Other options like disabling third-party cookies within your browser settings, enabling ad-blockers or private-mode browsing might also be suitable, but advertisers are a crafty bunch (i.e. geotagging).

List of Cookies

Registered Users

When logged in the following cookies are required.

Cookie Name Expires Category Description
lotro-wiki_session When user exits browser Functionality Manage sessions and provides functionality such as authentication
lotro-wikiUserID
lotro-wikiUserName
lotro-wikiUserToken
365 days, if the user chooses 'Keep me logged in'. Otherwise 30 days. Authentication Helps identify you to the wiki, and keeps you logged in.
cpPosTime
UseCDNCache
UseDC
When user exits browser Functionality Manages session cache while editing a page
Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics to monitor traffic for server health. You can opt-out of analytics by installing a browser extension or use the monobook skin.

Cookie Name Expires Category Description
_ga 2 years Analytics Used to distinguish users.
_gid 24 hours Analytics Used to distinguish users.
__utma 2 years Analytics Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
__utmz 6 months Analytics Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.