What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of data (a text file) that a website, when visited by You, asks Your browser to store on Your device in order to remember information about You, such as Your language preference or login information. Cookies are often used to provide a personalized experience to You, and to provide reporting information about Your activity or how You are engaging with the websites.
This Policy sets out how AppSamurai and its Affiliates (commonly referred to as We, Our, or Us) may use cookies to automatically collect certain information about Our and Our Partners' visitors and 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 with 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 "Accept All", you agree to the use of the selected cookies. If you click "Accept All", you also agree to the use of cookies that are essential to the website, as well as analytical, functional, and marketing cookies. If you continue browsing our websites without indicating your preferences, or if you click "Reject All" and your browser settings accept cookies, only the essential cookies required for browsing the site will remain set. You can personalize your cookie settings at any time.
Please note that if You delete or clear cookies, or do not accept them, Our services may be disrupted, and We may not be able to serve You with relevant advertising. 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, for example, allaboutcookies.org.
Categories of Cookies
We use cookie 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, they allow 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 a 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 is closed. 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, and 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 out 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?
You can personalize your cookie settings at any time. 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 reach us through "Contact Us". In addition to cookie 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:
How Long Do We Keep the Information?
That depends on the type of cookies. Session cookies expire when you close the browser. You can find the detailed retention period information for the 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.