Cookies Policy
Last updated on 21.12.2022
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. You may opt-in to these cookies using your browser settings.
- Marketing cookies: These cookies are used to track visitors across websites and display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
| Cookie Subgroup | Cookies | Purpose | Lifespan |
| youtube.com | CONSENT | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookies banner. | 2 years |
| bitcoinwide.com | cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | Used to detect is the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. | 1 years |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | Used to detect is the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. | 1 years | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | Determines whether the user has accepted the cookie consent box. | 1 years | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | Determines whether the user has accepted the cookie consent box. | 1 years | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. | 1 years | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. | 1 years | |
| trx_addons_is_retina | Determines which device is used by the visitor – This allows the website to adjust to the optimal resolution for that specific device. | 1 years | |
| cookielawinfo-consent | Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie.. | 1 years | |
| google.com | rc::a | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | Persistent |
| rc::c | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. | Session |
Functionality/Analytical or Performance Cookies
These cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
| Cookie Subgroup | Cookies | Purpose | Lifespan |
| bitcoinwide.com | _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitors uses the website. | 2 years |
| _ga_# | Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. | 2 years | |
| _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. | 1 day | |
| _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 1 day | |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | This cookie is used to count how many times a website has been visited by different visitors – this is done by assigning the visitor an ID, so the visitor does not get registered twice. | 1 day | |
| _hjFirstSeen | This cookie is used to determine if the visitor has visited the website before, or if it a new visitor on the website. | 1 day | |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Used to detect whether the user navigation and interaction are included in the website’s data analytics. | 1 day | |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | Registers data on visitor’s website-behavior. This is used for internal analysis and website optimization. | 1 day | |
| _hjRecordingLastActvitiy | Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behavior for statistical purposes. | Session | |
| _hjSession_# | Collects statistics on the visitor’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the websites and what pages you have been read. | 1 day | |
| _hjSessionUser_# | Collects statistics on the visitor’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the websites and what pages you have been read. | 1 year | |
| hjViewportId | Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behavior for statistical purposes. | Session | |
| cookie-usage-agreement | Used to determine acceptance of conditions in the banner cookie Used to determine acceptance of conditions in the banner cookie (Blog) | 1 year | |
| viewed_cookie_policy | Used to determine acceptance of conditions in the banner cookie Used to determine acceptance of conditions in the banner cookie (Blog) | 1 day | |
| wfwaf-Authcookie* | to read to determine if the user is logged in. | 12 hours | |
| wf_loginalerted_* | to provide protection against hackers. | 1 year | |
| wordpress_logged_in_* | to Store logged in users. | Session | |
| wordpress_test_cookie | to read if cookies can be placed. | Session | |
| wp-settings-* | to store user preferences. | 1 year | |
| wp-settings-time-* | to store user preferences. | 1 year | |
| wp_lang | to store language settings. | Session | |
| hotjar.com | _BEAMER_FIRST_VISIT_# | Stores the date of this user’s first visit to the site | 300 days |
| _BEAMER_LAST_UPDATE_# | Stores the timestamp for the last time the number of unread posts was updated for this user | 300 days | |
| _BEAMER_USER_ID_# | Stores an internal ID for this user | 300 days |
Targeting/Marketing Cookies
These cookies are used to track users across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third part advertisers.
| Cookie Subgroup | Cookies | Purpose | Lifespan |
| bitcoinwide.com | _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | 3 months |
| _hfRecordingEnabled | This cookie is used to identify the visitor and optimize ad-relevance by collecting visitor data from the multiple websites – this exchange of visitor data is normally provided by third-party data-center or ad-exchange. | Session | |
| google.com | ads/ga-audiences | Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behavior across websites | Session |
| 1P_JAR | to provide ad delivery or retargeting. | 1 month | |
| NID | to provide ad delivery or retargeting, store user preferences. | 6 month | |
| __Secure-3PAPISID | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. | 2 years | |
| __Secure-3PSID | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. | 2 years | |
| __Secure-3PSIDCC | Targeting cookie. Used to create a user profile and display relevant and personalised Google Ads to the user. | 2 years | |
| youtube.com | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the user’s bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | 179 days |
| YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session | |
| doubleclick.net | DSID | to store user preferences. | 2 weeks |
| IDE | to provide ad delivery or retargeting. | 2 years | |
| youtube.com | LOGIN_INFO | user login information | 1 year 1 months |
| __Secure-3PAPISID | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. | 2 years | |
| __Secure-3PSID | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. | 2 years | |
| __Secure-3PSIDCC | Targeting cookie. Used to create a user profile and display relevant and personalised Google Ads to the user. | 2 years |
Unclassified Cookies
| Cookie Subgroup | Cookies | Purpose | Lifespan |
| bitcoinwide.com | showIrrelevantResults | This cookie is used - | Session |
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookiesare likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, an Irish entity with registered address at 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland (Ireland). To know more about Facebook’s cookies, please visit its cookies and privacy policies, as available here. Please note that the processing of data by Facebook may entail the international transfer of data outside the European Union, as further described in the link above.
Google Analytics
Google Ireland Limited, an Irish entity with registered address at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4 (Ireland). To know more about Google’s cookies, please visit its cookies and privacy policies, as available here. Please note that the processing of data by Google may entail the international transfer of data outside the European Union, as further described in the link above.
You can choose which analytical, functionality and targeting cookies we can set by clicking on the button(s):
Strictly essential cookies OFF
Analytical or performance cookies OFF
Functionality cookies OFF
Targeting cookies OFF
However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.