Last updated: 11 August 2026.
This page lists the cookies iconicriviera.com actually sets, and why. It sits alongside our Privacy Policy, which covers personal information more broadly.
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file a site asks your browser to keep, so that something can be remembered between one page and the next: which language you are reading in, what is in your basket, whether you are signed in. Cookies cannot run programs or carry viruses.
What we do not use
We do not run advertising cookies, retargeting pixels or cross-site trackers, and nothing on this site is used to build an advertising profile of you or to follow you around the web. The one piece of third-party measurement we do use is Google Analytics, which is listed below with everything else.
The cookies this site does set
- trp_language — remembers which language you chose, so you are not sent back to English on the next page. Set by TranslatePress, on our own server.
- PHPSESSID and session_… — keep your shopping basket and checkout together across pages. Set by WordPress and SureCart, and discarded when you close the browser or when the session expires.
- iconic_popup_scroll and iconic_popup_exit — remember that you have already been shown the newsletter invitation, so that it does not appear again. Ours, and they hold nothing but a flag.
- __stripe_mid — set by Stripe on the checkout only, to tell a genuine customer from a fraudulent one.
- wordpress_logged_in_… and wp-settings-… — only ever set if you sign in, and only used to keep you signed in and to remember your own screen preferences.
- Security and delivery cookies — our host, Rocket.net, may set a cookie to protect the site from automated attack and to route your request to the nearest server.
- _ga and _ga_0PSK38ZVCD — Google Analytics. They tell one visit apart from another so we can count readers and see which guides are read, and they expire two years after your last visit. They are not used for advertising: Google Signals and ads personalisation are switched off on our property. Block them in your browser, or install Google’s opt-out add-on, and the site behaves in exactly the same way.
Cookies set by things we embed
Some guides embed a video, a map or a newsletter form from another service, YouTube and Vimeo and Substack among them. When one of those loads, the provider can set its own cookies, exactly as if you had visited its site directly. We choose the more privacy-friendly embed option wherever a service offers one, but those cookies are the provider’s and are governed by the provider’s policy.
How to control them
Every browser lets you see the cookies a site has set, delete them, and block them in future. Look for Privacy or Cookies in your browser’s settings. Blocking cookies from this site is entirely your right, but do bear in mind that the basket, the checkout, staying signed in and remembering your language all depend on them, so those things will stop working.
Questions
Write to hello@iconicriviera.com.
