What are Cookies?
A cookie is a small piece of data that websites store on your device when you visit them. It's like leaving a note on your fridge to remind yourself about something, but with the difference being it gets stored locally on your computer or mobile device.
Why do We Use Cookies?
We use cookies for various reasons:
Essential Cookies
Our website relies on essential cookies to provide the basic functionality of our service. These are called "essential" because without them, our website wouldn't work properly.
Some examples include:
Session Cookies
These cookies only exist during the time when you visit our site. They disappear as soon as you close or restart your browser.
We use session cookies to:
Persistent Cookies
Unlike session cookies, these ones stay with us for a bit longer - even after you close your browser. They can survive multiple visits to our site.
We use persistent cookies to:
Functional Cookies
These are the kinds that help improve how we deliver content and functionality to users. Think along the lines of remembering your specific user experience on a particular day, so you don't have to redo everything.
Some examples include:
Analytics and Performance Cookies
We use analytics tools like Google Analytics to help us understand how users engage with our site. These cookies store anonymous usage metrics (like page views) without collecting any personal details.
Other performance-related uses of cookies:
Preference and Language Settings
We allow users to adjust their experience based on the data stored by our system. This includes language selection, font size adjustment, or adjusting preferences around color schemes among other things.
Cookies help us keep these settings up-to-date for future visits without needing to force re-entries of info each time you return to a specific site section
Login/Session Continuity
To allow continued browsing and session continuity between different instances of the platform we save certain cookie data:
We aim at preserving as much user experience continuity while also making sure they can be terminated by individual action.
Device Recognition
Cookies may track various system specific parameters that help adapt an app's or website’s functionality based on its environment, browser support and even the specifics about device. For example:
By enabling more context-dependent adaptation of user interface the overall experience quality is enhanced.
Security-Related Cookies
We implement security-related cookies to secure browsing session for each of our users by authenticating access control in such a way that each new browser instance is uniquely associated with previously saved authentication key stored securely. They can only be accessed once correct log-in was performed and verified against current database records at given time frame.
Browser Storage Technologies
In addition to using traditional cookies, we may employ other storage techniques offered by browsers (like local storage or session storage) for a variety of purposes including analytics collection.
Some features utilize these:
While more user-friendly because it provides automatic retrieval in one spot there are limitations on what type content could be saved without further processing.
