Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

Last updated February 28, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Critical Productions Ltd (“Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at https://critical-productions.com/ (“Website”). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them. In some cases, we may use cookies to collect personal information, or information that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Critical Productions Ltd) are called “first-party cookies.” Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third-party cookies.” Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

Why do we use cookies?

We use first- and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Website. Third parties may serve cookies through our Website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.

How can I control cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Settings. The Cookie Settings allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services.

The Cookie Settings be found in a circular button on the bottom right hand side of each page of our Website. If you choose to reject some or all of the cookies, you may still use our Website though some of the functionality of our Website may be limited. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies.

The specific types of first- and third-party cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described in the table below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific web pages you visit):

Essential cookies:

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site may not then work.

Name Domain Expiration Path Description
wpEmojiSettingsSupports .critical-productions.com session / WordPress sets this cookie when a user interacts with emojis on a WordPress site. It helps determine if the user's browser can display emojis properly.
pressidium_cookie_consent .critical-productions.com 6 months / Pressidium Cookie Consent to store cookie consent preferences.
ST-183jmdn .critical-productions.com session Set by the website's security software to authenticate and authorize user access.
AEC .google.com 6 months Used for security purposes to detect and prevent fraudulent use of credentials.
SOCS .google.com 13 months Stores a user’s state regarding their cookie choices for Google services.
_Secure-STRP .google.com session Used by Google for security and integrity verification of user requests.
_Secure-BUCKET .google.com session A security cookie used for protecting user data from unauthorized access.
__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN .google.com 6 months Used by YouTube to measure the effectiveness of video advertisements and user engagement across different sessions.

Performance and Analytics cookies:

These cookies allow us to analyse visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our Website. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the Website.

Name Domain Expiration Path Description
g.gif .pixel.wp.com session https://pixel.wp.com/g.gif g.gif is an invisible image used by Jetpack and WordPress.com for analytics purposes.
_ga_1T63JQZ9RY .critical-productions.com 1 year 1 month This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state.
_ga-pro .criticalductions.com 1 year 1 month This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA .youtube.com 6 months Tracks user privacy and consent settings for embedded YouTube videos.

Advertisement and Targeting cookies:

These cookies may be set through our Website by our social media providers and/or our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other websites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device.

Name Domain Expiration Path Description
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE .youtube.com 5 months 27 days YouTube is a Google-owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. Used by Google in combination with SID to verify Google user account and most recent login time.
YSC .youtube.com session YouTube is a Google-owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. Used by Google in combination with SID to verify Google user account and most recent login time.
NID .google.com 5 months 4 weeks Stores user preferences and information when viewing Google maps or search.
IDE .doubleclick.net 1 year 1 month Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the user's actions after viewing or clicking an ad.
DV .google.com 1 Day Used by Google to provide ad delivery or retargeting based on user interests.
__Secure-YNID .youtube.com 1 year 1 month A security-enhanced version of the NID cookie used by YouTube to track user interests and deliver relevant ads.
__Secure-YEC .youtube.com 1 year 1 month Used by YouTube to measure the effectiveness of video advertisements and user engagement across different sessions.

Preferences and Functional cookies:

These cookies allow our Website to remember the choices you make (such as your user name, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized, and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. They are primarily used to ensure that the website looks and behaves the way you expect, preventing you from having to reset your preferences every time you visit a new page or return to the site.

Name Domain Expiration Path Description
PREF .youtube.com 1 year 1 month YouTube uses the ‘PREF’ cookie to store information such as your preferred page configuration and playback preferences like explicit autoplay choices, shuffle content, and player size.

How can I control cookies on my browser?

As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information. The following is information about how to manage cookies on the most popular browsers:

What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?

Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enables us to recognize when someone has visited our Website or opened an email including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

Do you serve targeted advertising?

Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our Website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. They can accomplish this by using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details, or other details that directly identify you unless you choose to provide these.

How often will you update this Cookie Policy?

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

Where can I get further information?

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us at: contact@critical-productions.com