Last Updated: July 9, 2025
What are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login details, language, font size, and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
How We Use Cookies
Our website, dentalfearcentral.org, uses a combination of a content management system (WordPress), forum software (XenForo), a security service (Cloudflare), and analytics (Google Analytics). It uses cookies to ensure our site works correctly, to enhance your user experience, and to understand how visitors interact with our community. We have grouped our cookies into the following categories:
1. Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site and our forum. The website cannot function properly without them. They also include cookies that remember your privacy choices.
CookieLawInfoConsent,cookielawinfo-checkbox-*,viewed_cookie_policy: These cookies remember your consent preferences regarding other types of cookies. For example, they store whether you said “yes” or “no” to analytics cookies.cf_clearance: This is a security cookie from Cloudflare, our site protection service. It helps distinguish between humans and bots to keep our website secure.wordpress_test_cookie: This cookie checks if your browser is set to accept cookies. It does not store any personal data.xf_csrf,xf_session,xf_session_admin: These cookies are from our forum software (XenForo). They manage your Browse session and protect against security risks. They are deleted when you close your browser.
2. Functional Cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make to provide a more personalized and convenient experience.
wordpress_logged_in_*,wp-settings-*,wp-settings-time-*: These are WordPress cookies that keep you logged into the website and remember any personal display settings you have configured.xf_user: This forum cookie remembers your user identity between visits so you don’t have to log in every single time.xf_emoji_usage: To make posting more convenient, this cookie remembers which emojis you have recently used.xf_push_notice_dismiss: If we show a site-wide notice, this cookie remembers if you have dismissed it so we don’t show it to you again.
3. Analytics Cookies
These cookies collect information about how you use our website, such as which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. This information is aggregated and anonymized and helps us improve how our website works.
_ga,_ga_*: These cookies are part of Google Analytics. They help us count how many people visit our website and understand how they navigate through it. They do not store personal information that can directly identify you.
4. Advertisement Cookies
Our website is not placing advertising cookies on your browser.
Managing Your Cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities (like staying logged in) may not work.
You can manage your consent preferences for this site at any time by clicking on the “Cookie Settings” link in the website footer.