Hello! If you are reading this, then you care about privacy – and your privacy is very important to us. Cookies are an important part of almost all online companies these days, and this page describes what they are, how we use them, what data they collect, and most importantly, how you can change your browser settings to turn them off.
A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
We use cookies for a number of different purposes. Some cookies are necessary for technical reasons; some enable a personalized experience for both visitors and registered users; and some allow the display of advertising from selected third party networks. Some of these cookies may be set when a page is loaded, or when a visitor takes a particular action (clicking the “like” or “follow” button on a post, for example).
We use cookies for the following purposes:
_ga: Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users
_gat: Performance Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate
_gid: Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users
_fbp: This cookie will help deliver our advertising to people who have already visited our website when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook Advertising
_stripe_mid: Stripe is used to make credit card payments. Stripe uses a cookie to remember who you are and to enable checkmate.tech to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers.
_stripe_sid: Stripe is used to make credit card payments. Stripe uses a cookie to remember who you are and to enable checkmate.tech to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers.
PHPSESSID: Used to store a generic value to identify your session on our website
Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
We use Stripe to handle Payments on our website. Stripe are a third party payment processor and their privacy policy is available at https://stripe.com/gb/privacy
We use Google Adwords which also owns DoubleClick for marketing and remarketing purposes. Cookies are placed on your PC to help us track our adverts performance, as well as to help tailor our marketing to your needs. You can view Googles Privacy policy here https://policies.google.com/privacy
We use LinkedIn to easily log/register on our website as well as to like and share content. To view LinkedIn’s Privacy Policy click here https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
We use Facebook to easily log/register on our website as well as to like and share content. To view Facebooks Privacy Policy click here https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can, however, obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.