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About this cookie policy
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them. You should read this policy to understand what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used and how to control the cookie preferences. For further information on how we use, store and keep your personal data secure, see our Privacy Policy.
You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.
Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.
Your consent applies to the following domains: thegreymattersnetwork.com
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What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. The cookies are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make the website more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyse what works and where it needs improvement.
How do we use cookies?
As most of the online services, our website uses cookies first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes. The first-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
What types of cookies do we use?
Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account and add products to your basket and checkout securely.
Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit etc. These data help us understand and analyse how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing contents on the website on social media platforms.
Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.
The below list details some of the cookies used in our website.
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| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| APISID | advertising, third party | 2 years | This cookie is set by Google DoubleClick. This cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners such as YouTube, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. |
| CONSENT | advertising, third party, functional | persistent | This cookie is set by Google Ads Optimization, via YouTube. This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | persistent | 1 year | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. It is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary | persistent | 1 year | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. It is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Non-necessary". |
| CookieLawInfoConsent | persistent | 1 year | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. It records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie |
| et-editor-available-post-* | functional | This cookie is set by the Elegant Themes WordPress theme used on this website. It is used to allow the website owners to edit the pages of the website. | |
| GPS | analytics, third party | 30 minutes | This cookie is set by Youtube and registers a unique ID for tracking users based on their geographical location. |
| GPS | analytics, third party | 30 minutes | This cookie is set by Youtube and registers a unique ID for tracking users based on their geographical location. |
| HSID | advertising, third party | 2 years | This cookie is set by Google Ads Optimization, via YouTube. |
| IDE | advertising, third party | 1 year | Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. |
| IDE | advertising, third party | 1 year | This cookie is set by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. |
| LOGIN_INFO | advertising, third party | This cookie is set by YouTube. | |
| PREF | analytics, third party | 1 year | This cookie, which may be set by Google or Doubleclick, may be used by advertising partners to build a profile of interests to show relevant ads on other sites. It works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. |
| SAPISID | advertising, third party | 2 years | This cookie is set by Google DoubleClick. This cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. |
| SID | functional, third party | session | This is a very common cookie name but where it is found as a session cookie it is likely to be used as for session state management. |
| SIDCC | advertising, third party | 1 year | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| SSID | advertising, third party | 2 years | This cookie is set by Google Ads Optimization, via YouTube. This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | persistent | 1 year | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. It is the primary cookie that records the user consent for the usage of the cookies upon ‘accept’ and ‘reject.’ It does not track any personal data and is set only upon user action (accept/reject). |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | advertising, third party | 5 months | This cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | advertising, third party, functional | 6 months | This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites. It can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface, and helps YouTube estimate bandwidth |
| wordpress_logged_in_* | functional | persistent | This cookie is set by WordPress and is used to keep users logged in. |
| wordpress_sec_* | functional | 15 days | This cookie is set by WordPress and is used to provide protection against hackers, store account details. |
| wordpress_test_cookie | functional | 0 minutes | This cookie is set by WordPress to check if cookies can be placed. |
| wp-settings-* | functional | persistent | This cookie is set by WordPress, and is used to store user preferences. |
| wp-settings-time-* | functional | 1 year | This cookie is set by WordPress, and is used to store user preferences. |
| YSC | performance, third party | This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos. | |
| YSC | third party, performance | session | This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. |
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | analytics, third party, anonymous | 2 years | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
| _gat | performance, third party | 1 minute | This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. |
| _gid | analytics, third party | 1 day | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. |
| apbct_cookies_test | functional, third party | session | This cookie is set by the CleanTalk Spam Protect plugin. It is used to check if cookies can be placed. |
| apbct_page_hits | functional, third party | session | This cookie is set by the CleanTalk Spam Protect plugin. Is is used in order to detect spam and improve the website’s security. Does not store visitor specific data. |
| apbct_prev_referer | functional, third party | session | This cookie is set by the CleanTalk Spam Protect plugin. It is used to store referrer ID’s to identify and eliminate spam on the website’s comment section. |
| apbct_site_landing_ts | functional, third party | session | This cookie is set by the CleanTalk Spam Protect plugin. It ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie is essential for the security of the website and visitor. |
| apbct_timestamp | functional, third party | This cookie is set by the CleanTalk Spam Protect plugin. Used to prevent spam on our comments and forms and acts as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for this site. | |
| apbct_visible_fields | functional, third party | session | This cookie is set by the CleanTalk Spam Protect plugin. It is used to prevent spam on our comments and forms and acts as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for this site. |
| apbct_visible_fields_count | functional, third party | session | This cookie is set by the CleanTalk Spam Protect plugin. It is used to prevent spam on our comments and forms and acts as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for this site. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | persistent | 1 year | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. It is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Necessary”. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary | persistent | 1 year | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. It is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Non-necessary”. |
| CookieLawInfoConsent | persistent | 1 year | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. It records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie |
| ct_checkjs | functional, third party | session | This cookie is set by the CleanTalk Spam Protect plugin. It is used to store dynamic variables from the browser. |
| ct_fkp_timestamp | functional, third party | session | This cookie is set by the CleanTalk Spam Protect plugin. It is used to store time of visit. |
| ct_pointer_data | functional, third party | session | This cookie is set by the CleanTalk Spam Protect plugin. It is used to store dynamic variables from the browser. |
| ct_ps_timestamp | functional, third party | session | This cookie is set by the CleanTalk Spam Protect plugin. It is used to store dynamic variables from the browser. |
| ct_sfw_pass_key | functional, third party | 4 weeks | This cookie is set by the CleanTalk Spam Protect plugin. It is used to prevent spam on our comments and forms and acts as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for this site. |
| ct_timezone | functional, third party | session | This cookie is set by the CleanTalk Spam Protect plugin. It is used to store time of visit. |
| et-editor-available-post-* | functional | This cookie is set by the Elegant Themes WordPress theme used on this website. It is used to allow the website owners to edit the pages of the website. | |
| IDE | advertising, third party | 1 year | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads, with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | persistent | 1 year | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. It is the primary cookie that records the user consent for the usage of the cookies upon ‘accept’ and ‘reject.’ It does not track any personal data and is set only upon user action (accept/reject). |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | advertising, third party, functional | 6 months | This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites. It can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface, and helps YouTube estimate bandwidth |
| wordpress_logged_in_* | functional | persistent | This cookie is set by WordPress and is used to keep users logged in. |
| wordpress_sec_* | functional | 15 days | This cookie is set by WordPress and is used to provide protection against hackers, store account details. |
| wordpress_test_cookie | functional | 0 minutes | This cookie is set by WordPress to check if cookies can be placed. |
| wp-settings-* | persistent, functional | persistent | This cookie is set by WordPress, and is used to store user preferences. |
| wp-settings-time-* | functional | 1 year | This cookie is set by WordPress, and is used to store user preferences. |
| wpe-auth | functional, third party | session | This cookie is set by the hosting company WPEngine, to keep users logged in. |
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How can I control the cookie preferences?
Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Privacy & Cookie Policy” tab on the bottom right of your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, or www.allaboutcookies.org.
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