What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by You, asks Your browser to store on Your device, to remember information about You, such as Your language preference or login information. Cookies are often used to provide a personalized experience to You, as well as to provide reporting information regarding Your activity or how You are engaging with the websites.
This Policy sets out in which AppSamurai and its Affiliates (commonly referred to as We or Our or Us) may use cookies to automatically collect certain information about Our/Our Partners’ visitors/users.
Partners as used in this Policy, means, our publishers and other advertising clients.
Cookies – how do we use them?
Would you like to browse our websites thanks to a personalized user experience? The policy below is designed to help you understand how cookies work and make an informed decision. These cookies only work on our website. By clicking on “Accept All”, you agree to the use of the selected cookies. Also, if you click on “Accept all”, you agree to the use of cookies that are essential to the website, analytical cookies, functional and marketing cookies. If you continue browsing our web sites without indicating your preferences or click on “Reject all” and your browser settings accept cookies, only the essential cookies that are essential for browsing the site will remain set. Click here to personalize you cookie settings.
Please note that if You delete/clear cookies or do not accept them, Our services may be disrupted, and We may not be able to serve You with relevant advertising. Further, please note that following Your opt out, You may continue to see non-personalized advertisements provided by Us that may be based on the context of the mobile website or webpage only.
What are cookies and how do they work?
Cookies are files that are sent to and stored in the main folder of your browser by the websites you visit. The next time you visit our websites, your browser reads the cookies and transmits the anonymous information back to our websites, for example the date of your last visit if it was less than 3 months ago. To learn more about these technologies and how they work, please read e.g. allaboutcookies.org
Categories of cookies
We use cookies technology for a variety of purposes, which can be grouped into these four categories:
- Essential
These cookies allow you to move around the website. They do not store personally identifiable information and enable features such as accessing secure areas of the website or remembering the contents of your shopping cart. They are essential to the operation of our website.
- Performance and Analytical
These cookies allow us to collect information about how visitors use our websites. For example, we can see the total number of visits or which pages visitors visit most often. We use this information to make sure our users find the information they are looking for, to monitor the website’s performance indicators and to fix any errors.
| Cookie | Name | Purpose and Retention |
| Google Analytics | _ga | Retention Period: 10 Years Duration of Use: 2 Years To distinguish users and store their analytics. |
| Google Analytics | _gaexp | Retention Period: 10 Years Duration of Use: 90 Days Keeps IDs of experiments and A/B tests |
| Google Analytics | _gid | Retention Period: 10 Years Duration of Use: 24 Hours For user differentiation and usage analytics. |
| ln_or | Retention Period: 1 Year Stores the user’s statistical information on the website |
- Functional and Choice
These cookies are set by third-party tools that extend the functionality of our website and add new features for you to better interact with our website. They do not collect information for additional advertising tracking. For example, it allows us to remember your choice of language on our site or the font size you have selected when reading a text.
| Cookie | Name | Purpose and Retention |
| Security | __Secure-1PSIDCC | Retention Period: 1 Year For security purposes |
| Security | Secure-3PSID | Retention Period: 2 Years For security purposes |
| Security | __Secure-3PAPISID | Retention Period: 2 Years For security purposes |
| Security | __Secure-3PSIDCC | Retention Period: 1 Year For security purposes |
| Security | __Secure-1PAPISID | Retention Period: 2 Years For security purposes |
| Security | __Secure-1PSID | Retention Period: 2 Years For security purposes |
| Security | SIDCC | Retention Period: 6 Months To protect users from unauthorized access |
| Security | HSID | Retention Period: 2 Years To secure the cookie by verifying the authenticity of the visitor, prevent fraudulent use of login data and protect user data against unauthorized access. |
| Security | AEC | Retention Period: 3 Months For security purposes |
| SEARCH_SAMESITE | Retention Period: 6 Months Allows us to specify whether your cookie should be restricted to first-party context or same-site context | |
| Zopim | __zlcmid | Retention Period: 10 Years Enables the application to have a unique user name |
| Cloudflare | cfkmrk_cic | Retention Period: 3 Months For Cloudflare to route user traffic |
- Marketing and Advertising
These cookies are used by social networking services to track usage of their embedded features. They may also be set via our website by our advertising partners. They identify your unique browser and internet device and can be used to provide anonymised demographic data, profile your interests and display advertising relevant to those interests.
| Cookie | Name | Purpose and Retention |
| Hubspot | hssc | Retention Period: 10 Years Duration of Use: 30 Minutes Keeps the user’s visit sessions information. |
| Hubspot | hssrc | Retention Period: 10 Years Duration of Use: Until the browser close To determine whether the user restarts their browser. |
| Hubspot | hstc | Retention Period: 10 Years Duration of Use: 13 Months Keeps the data of the user’s first visit, the start and end of the momentary visit. |
| Hubspot | hubspotutk | Retention Period: 10 Years Duration of Use: 13 Months Keeps the user’s identity information. It is sent to Hubspot when the form is filled and sent and is used to distinguish communication destinations. |
| _fbp | Retention Period: 10 Years Used by Facebook to show advertising products to the user through 3rd party ad providers. | |
| APISID | Retention Period: 2 Years To retrieve user information on videos served by YouTube. | |
| SAPISID | Retention Period: 2 Years To retrieve user information on videos served by YouTube. | |
| SID | Retention Period: 2 Years For personalization purposes | |
| SSID | Retention Period: 2 Years Google collects visitor information for videos hosted by YouTube on maps integrated with Google Maps. | |
| Chartbeat | cb | Retention Period: 2 Years For Chartbeat to follow users |
| 1P_JAR | Retention Period: 2 Years Based on recent searches and previous interactions, custom ads are shown on Google sites. | |
| Google Ads Optimization | DV | Retention Period: 1 Day For marketing and advertising purposes |
| OTZ | Retention Period: 1 Month To link the activities of website visitors to other devices that have previously logged in through a Google account. In this way, ads are tailored to different devices. | |
| NID | Retention Period: 6 Months Stores visitors’ preferences and personalizes ads on Google websites based on recent searches and interactions. | |
| Google Adsense | _gcl_au | Retention Period: 10 Years To track conversions. |
| _rdt_uuid | Retention Period: 1 Year Stores visitors’ preferences and personalizes ads on Google websites based on recent searches and interactions. | |
| Marketo | _mkto_trk | Retention Period: 2 Years To store user interaction. |
| OptinMonster | _omappvp | Retention Period: 10 Years Duration of Use: 1 Day Keeps track of the number of times the user has visited the site |
| OptinMonster | _omSeen- * | Retention Period: 10 Years Duration of Use: 1 Month To show specific ads on specific pages. |
- How can I manage cookies?
Click here to personalize you cookie settings. Browsers allow you to manage cookies related to basic functionality, website improvement, personalisation and advertising. Different browsers use different methods to disable cookies, but they can usually be found in the Tools or Options menu. You can also consult from “Contact Us”. In addition to cookies management, browsers usually allow you to control files that resemble cookies, such as Local Shared Objects, by enabling the browser’s privacy mode. We use third-party managed advertising cookies to promote our products both on our site and elsewhere on the internet.
The links below provide information on how to manage (and disable) cookies in some common browsers:
| Adobe Analytics | “http://www.adobe.com/uk/privacy/opt-out.html” |
| AOL | https://help.aol.com/articles/restore-security-settings-and-enable-cookie-settings-on -browser |
| Google Adwords | https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en |
| Google Analytics | https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout |
| Google Chrome | http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647 |
| Internet Explorer | https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-m anage-cookies |
| MozillaFirefox | http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Cookies |
| Opera | http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/ |
| Safari: | https://support.apple.com/kb/pstrong9214?locale=tr_TR |
- How long do we keep the information?
That depends on the type of cookies. Session cookies expire when you close the browser. You may find the detailed retention period information fort he types of cookies above. For example Persistent cookies, including Local Shared Objects (“Flash cookies”), typically have expiration dates of two (2) to twenty-four (24) months. If you have any further questions, please write to us at: privacy@appsamurai.com
We commit to process personal information solely for the purposes described in this policy.
Updated on February 1, 2024