Cookie policy
As standard on the Internet, we use different types of cookies, pixels, and other similar technologies (collectively referred to as “cookies”), including third-party cookies on our Website. Cookies are small blocks of data placed on your device when you visit our Website. They help us collect non-personally identifiable information about the use of our Website and provide you with basic functionality.
The cookies we use fall into the following categories:
Necessary (functional) cookies. Necessary (functional) cookies help ensure the proper functioning of the Website. They allow the Website to remember your preferences (e.g., payment currency) so you do not have to set them again.
Analytics cookies. These types of cookies help us analyze aggregated user data to improve our Website.
Marketing. We use marketing cookies to deliver relevant ads and improve their relevancy and performance.
Affiliate. Affiliate cookies help us identify users referred to our Website by partners so we can pay them a commission.
You can check what cookies we use and how we use them in the table below. Please note that this list of cookies is not exhaustive. The duration of third-party cookies is determined by the third parties.
| Cookie name | Provenance | Cookie expiry | Purpose | Cookie Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| __cfruid | Third-party (CloudFlare) | Session | Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to identify trusted web traffic. | Necessary (functional) |
| __cf_bm | Third-party (Cloudflare) | 30 minutes | 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. | Necessary (functional) |
| _hjFirstSeen | Third-party (Cloudflare) | 30 minutes | The cookie is set so Cloudflare can track the beginning of the user's journey for a total session count. It does not contain any identifiable information. | Necessary (functional) |
| atlas_coupon | Atlas VPN | 1 month | This cookie stores the coupon which will be used at the checkout. | Necessary (functional) |
| atlas_currency | Atlas VPN | 1 month | This cookie stores the coupon which will be used at the checkout. | Necessary (functional) |
| _zendesk_session | Third-party (Zendesk) | Session | Stores account ID, route for internal service calls and the cross-site request forgery token. | Necessary (functional) |
| _zendesk_shared_session | Third-party (Zendesk) | Session | Authentication cookie — set to be anonymous. | Necessary (functional) |
| _hjSession_2040600 | Third-party (Hotjar) | 30 min | A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensures that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. | Necessary (functional) |
| _gat_UA-148236428-1 | Third-party (Google) | 1 minute | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It is a variation of the _gat cookie, which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high-traffic volume websites. | Analytics |
| _gid | Third-party (Google) | 1 day | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and updates a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews. | Analytics |
| _gat | Third-party (Google) | 1 minute | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. According to documentation. it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high-traffic sites. | Analytics |
| _ga | Third-party (Google) | 2 years | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request on a site and used to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data for the site's analytics reports. | Analytics |
| _gat_gtag_UA_148236428_1 | Third-party (Google) | 1 minute | This cookie is part of Google Analytics and is used to limit requests (throttle request rate). | Analytics |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | Third-party (Hotjar) | 2 minutes | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit | Analytics |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Third-party (Hotjar) | 2 minutes | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit. | Analytics |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Third-party (Hotjar) | 30 minutes | The cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user's journey for a total session count. It does not contain any identifiable information | Analytics |
| _hjSessionUser_2040600 | Third-party (Hotjar) | 1 year | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | Analytics |
| IDE | Third-party (Google) | 1 year | This cookie is set by DoubleClick and carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | Marketing |
| _gcl_au | Third-party (Google) | 3 months | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | Marketing |
| dpr | Third-party (Facebook) | Session | These cookies are used to measure how users move between Facebook pages and our website. | Marketing |
| wd | Third-party (Facebook) | 1 week | These cookies are used to measure how users move between Facebook pages and our website. | Marketing |
| sb | Third-party (Facebook) | 2 years | These cookies are used to measure how users move between Facebook pages and our website. | Marketing |
| datr | Third-party (Facebook) | 2 years | These cookies are used to measure how users move between Facebook pages and our website. | Marketing |
| fr | Third-party (Facebook) | 3 months | These cookies are used to measure how users move between Facebook pages and our website. | Marketing |
| _uetvid | Third-party (Bing) | 16 days | This cookie stores and tracks visits across websites. | Marketing |
| _uetvid_exp | Third-party (Bing) | Persistent | This cookie stores and tracks visits across websites | Marketing |
| test_cookie | Third-party (Google) | 15 minutes | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies. | Marketing |
| offer_id | Atlas VPN | 1 month | This cookie helps to track which user comes from which affiliate. | Affiliate |
| transaction_id | Atlas VPN | 1 month | This cookie helps to track affiliate conversions. | Affiliate |
How to manage your cookie settings
You can choose whether to accept or block cookies through your browser settings. You can decide to delete cookies as well. All major browsers allow users to choose their cookie settings. Please be aware that if you choose to reject cookies, the Website might not work as intended, and you might lose access to some of its features.
The following links provide information on how to modify the cookies’ settings on some popular browsers: Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera.