What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are created and stored on your device (such as a computer or a smartphone) when you visit websites. These files contain data that websites use to remember certain information about you and your browsing activities. Cookies are widely used by websites to enhance user experiences, provide personalized content, and gather data for analytics purposes.

When you visit a website, the website sends a cookie to your device and stores it in your web browser. The next time you visit the same website, your browser sends the cookie back to the website, allowing it to recognize you and remember information about your previous visits. This information can include preferences, login credentials, items in your shopping cart, or other data relevant to your interaction with the website.

Cookies can be categorized into different types based on their lifespan and purpose:

• Session cookies: These cookies are temporary and are stored on your device only during your browsing session. They are deleted when you close your browser.
• Persistent cookies: Unlike session cookies, persistent cookies remain on your device even after you close your browser. They have an expiration date and are used to remember information across multiple sessions.
• First-party cookies: First-party cookies are set by the website you are currently visiting. They are used to remember your preferences and provide a personalized experience.

• Third-party cookies: Third-party cookies are set by websites other than the one you are currently visiting. They are often used for advertising and tracking purposes by third-party services or advertisers.

How do we use Cookies?

At Clapup we use cookies are for variety of purpose it can be categorized into following categories. 

Essential Cookies: These type of cookies are essential for the proper functioning and access management to our services. If you disable essential cookies, our services may not work properly. These Cookies do not store information about you that will be used for other purposes.

Functional Cookies: These Cookies enable the Services to provide enhanced functionality personalization and also some of them are used for securing our services. such cookies can be set by Firs party (Clapup) or any Third-party that work with us to enhance our services (eg: Cloudflare).

Performance & Analytics Cookies: These Cookies are for internal use only. They help us to secure and maintain our Services, and to remember your preferences for tools found on the Services. They are also used for gathering analytics data on how you interact with our Services and the improvement performance of the site accordingly.

Targeting & Advertising Cookies: As of now we don’t use any advertising cookie. We will inform our users if we change this policy in future.

How long does a Cookie last?

It depends on the purpose of the cookie. Some may be for a short period of time and some may be for weeks or months.

Reject or Remove Cookies?

You have choice of accepting or rejecting cookies from cookie preferences. Or you can delete the cookies stored in your browser using your browser’s privacy settings. 
You can visit this link to know how to manage cookies in Google Chrome or all chrome based browsers.

You can visit this link to know how to manage cookies in Mozilla Firefox browser.

For Safari browser, you can visit this link to learn about managing cookies.

For Opera users, please follow this link.

Useful links

For further reading you can visit below websites.

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