Plancake Cookie Policy

(Last updated February 12, 2013)

In line with the new European e-Privacy Directive that comes into effect on 26 May 2012, we have updated this policy with new information on the cookies this website collects and uses.

Please find our full Privacy Policy at this address: http://www.plancake.com/legal/privacy.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file written to your hard drive that contains information about your account on this Website. Cookies do not contain any personal information about users. During the course of your visit to this Website, the pages you see, along with some cookies, are downloaded to your device. Cookies enable us to collect useful information such as the device a user is using and whether they have visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although doing so may interfere with your use of some of our sites or services.

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.

How does Plancake use cookies?

Information gathered from cookies helps us to analyse the behaviour of our visitors and their online behaviour and patterns. This means we can provide you with a better community and user experience by tailoring our site to your needs. We are constantly looking for ways in improve our online community and information from cookies is critical for this.

Cookies do not give us any personal information about you or your business. They simply allow us to see which areas of the site are working well i.e. visited most and which content is most of interest.

Cookies also allow you to have a more seamless experience of using the site i.e. you remain logged in for entire sessions or multiple user sessions, removing the need to remember usernames and passwords on a regular basis. Our session cookies are therefore essential to the functionality and usability of our site.

Please bear in mind we offer certain features that are available only through the use of cookies.

Third Party Cookies on Plancake pages

During any visit to this Website you may notice some cookies that are not related to Plancake or Danyuki Software Limited. These may include 3rd party advertising cookies.

You may be served a 3rd party cookie directly from one of our advertisers. However, 3rd party cookies only gather anonymous information. The 3rd party cookies that our advertisers serve simply allows ads to be shown that may be relevant to you based on previous pages and content you have viewed.

3rd party cookies will come from Google Adsense.

Any widgets we use like Google+, Twitter, FB, Linkedin may also set their own cookies and set their own Google analytics cookies.

We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.

You should check the third party websites for more information about these.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

How to reject cookies?

If you wish to restrict or block the cookies, you can do this through your browser settings. The Help function within your browser should tell you how. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.
Please be aware that restricting cookies will have an impact on the functionality of this website and the quality of your user experience.

List of cookies used on this website:

This is the list of cookies the Plancake website uses

Cookie name	Purpose
__utma __utmb __utmc __utmz	Cookies from Google Analytics. These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.
__unam	This cookie is used by ShareThis.com to collect anonymous data from the user.
split_test_*	This group of cookies only contain a number and help us understand what content is the most effective to expand our userbase.
feedbackBox	This is just a yes/no value that tells the platform whether you closed a particular element of the user interface.
firstLogin	This is just a yes/no value that tells the platform whether that is the first time you log in.
plancakeBackground	This is just a number that makes the platform remember the background you set last.
todaySortOrder	This is a set of numbers that allow the platform to remember the way you sorted tasks.
panel2Visible	This is just a yes/no value that tells the platform whether the secondary pane should be visible.
splitViewHintShown	This is just a yes/no value that tells the platform whether to show a particular hint to the user.
pcoeirtnte34	This is the session cookie that allows the session to be remembered by the browser.
forum_cookie_995907	This is the session cookie for the forum that allows the session to be remembered by the browser.
rememberme	This is used in the case you use the "Remember me" functionality on login.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all web sites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.