We Take Your Privacy Seriously
We don’t track or retain any personally identifying data about you via www.osr.com — If you have questions about privacy or data retention, please contact our General Manager Dan Root, via any of the many contact methods provided on this site.
What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for logged-in users and for commenters, and provide anonymized tracking data to applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better.
None of the information we gather via Cookies identifies you as an individual — it is all entirely anonymous.
What We Use Cookies For
Cookie Header — In the header of each web page on this site you will see a message alerting you of our privacy and cookie policy. If you’ve seen this message once, you probably won’t want to see it again. We use a cookie to remember this setting. And this setting is maintained for a period of six months. User data is all anonymous.
Jetpack / WordPress / Automattic — We use a package from Automattic (the people behind WordPress.com) named Jetpack to help us understand the popularity and performance of the various parts of our site. To do this, the site collects IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. Any piece of data explicitly identifying a specific user (IP address, WordPress.com ID, WordPress.com username, etc.) is not visible to the site us here at OSR. For example, we can only see that a specific post has 285 views, but we cannot see which specific users/accounts viewed that post.
Stats logs — containing visitor IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames (if available) — are retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used only for the purpose of powering this feature.
Google Analytics — To understand how people use our site, and to discover areas on our site with issues, we use Google Analytics (GA). Most websites use some sort of analytics program like this. The data it collects helps us see things like how many people visit our site, which country they are from, how many pages they visited, how fast our site loaded, and so on. We have made a good-faith effort to tune the GA settings to comply with EU GDPR requirements. The specific cookies used by GA are listed in the table below.
| Cookie Name | Expiration Time | Description | |
| _ga | 2 years | Used to distinguish users. Stores the ClientID, a unique and randomly generated string, so that the user can be associated on future visits, the date of first visit and version of GA cookie. | |
| _gid | 24 hours | Stores the ClientID | |
| _gat | 1 minute | Throttles the number of requests a user does to Google Analytics’s servers | |
| ga-disable-{YOUR UA CODE} | Never | If a user opts out via MonsterInsights’s opt out system or the official Google do not track methods, this cookie prevents Google Analytics from tracking the user. | |
| AMP_TOKEN | 30 seconds – 1 year (varies) | Identifies a user who was first given a ClientID on an AMP (Accelerated Mobile Page) version of your site. The length of time stored varies, with users who visit the AMP page first, and visit more frequently getting higher durations. | |
| __utmx | 18 months | For users utilizing Google Analytics’s Content Experiments feature, this cookie determines if a user is included in an experiment. | |
| __utmxx | 18 months | For users utilizing Google Analytics’s Content Experiments feature, this cookie determines when a user’s experiment ends. | |
| _gaexp | Typically 90 days (varies) | For users utilizing MonsterInsights’s Google Optimize Integration, used to determine the inclusion and expiration of a user’s participation in a Google Optimize test. Duration varies based on the length of experiment. | |
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