Cookie policy
Effective as of February 1, 2021
Whatagraph.com, like many other sites, uses small files called cookies to help us customise your experience. Find out more about cookies and how you can control them.
This page contains information on what 'cookies' are, the cookies used by Whatagraph's website and how to switch cookies off in your browser. If it does not provide the information you were looking for, or you have any further questions about the use of cookies on whatagraph.com, please email hi@whatagraph.com.
What are 'cookies'?
'Cookies' are small text files that are stored by the browser (for example, Internet Explorer or Safari) on your computer or mobile phone. They allow websites to store things like user preferences. You can think of cookies as providing a 'memory' for the website, so that it can recognise you when you come back and respond appropriately.
Cookies set by the website owner or service provider (in this case, Whatagraph) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website or service you are using (such as advertising, interactive content and analytics). The third parties that set these third party cookies can recognise your computer both when it visits the website or service in question and also when it visits certain other websites or services.
How does Whatagraph use cookies?
A visit to a page on Whatagraph website may generate the following types of cookie:
Necessary
Functional
Analytics
Performance
Advertisement
Necessary
Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.
Functional
Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.
Analytics
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Performance
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyse the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
Advertisement
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customised advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyse the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.
Cookies served throughout our Websites
The specific types of cookies served through our Websites and the purposes they perform are described in further detail below:
Necessary Website Cookies
| Name & Description | Duration |
|---|---|
| Intercom Intercom sets this cookie that allows visitors to see any conversations they've had on Intercom websites. | 7 days, 8 months 26 days 1 hour |
| Cloudflare Cloudflare sets this cookie for website protection. | 1 hour |
| CookieYes CookieYes sets this cookie to remember users' consent preferences so that their preferences are respected on subsequent visits to this site. It does not collect or store any personal information about the site visitors. | 6 months |
Functional Website Cookies
| Name & Description | Duration |
|---|---|
| LinkedIn LinkedIn sets this cookie to remember a user's language setting, facilitate data center selection, store visitor's consent regarding using cookies for non-essential purposes. | Session, 1 day, 6 months |
| YouTube YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video player preferences. | Session, never expires |
Analytics Website Cookies
| Name & Description | Duration |
|---|---|
| Google Tag Manager Google Tag Manager sets the cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | 3 months |
| Microsoft Clarity Microsoft Clarity sets the cookie to store information about how visitors interact with the website. The cookie helps to provide an analysis report. | Session, 1 year |
| Google Analytics Google Analytics sets the cookie to store, calculate, and analyze visitor, session and campaign data. | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
| Pardot The pardot cookie is set while the visitor is logged in as a Pardot user. The cookie indicates an active session and is not used for tracking. | 1 year |
| Dreamdata Dreamdata sets the cookie to track the user across multiple visits. | 1 year |
Performance Website Cookies
| Name & Description | Duration |
|---|---|
| Bing Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website and to store its unique ID. | 1 day, 1 year 24 days |
Advertisement Website Cookies
| Name & Description | Duration |
|---|---|
| Bing Bing sets the cookie for ad targeting, measurement, optimization, and content customization. | 1 year 24 days |
| Google These cookies are used to gather website statistics, and track conversion rates. Google advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes. Google uses these cookies, based on recent searches and interactions, to customise ads on Google websites and to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across websites. | 90 days |
| Facebook Facebook sets the cookie for ad targeting, measurement, optimization, and content customization. | 1 year |
| LinkedIn LinkedIn sets the cookie for ad targeting, measurement, optimization, and content customization. | 1 year |
How do I turn cookies off?
Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website. Please be aware that such action could affect the availability and functionality of the Site. All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, or you can use the 'Help' option in your browser for more details.
Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
Cookie settings in Firefox
Cookie settings in Chrome
Cookie settings in Safari web and iOS
If you are primarily concerned about third party cookies generated by advertisers, you can turn these off by going to the Your Online Choices site
You can also visit the trade body representing these advertising platforms for more information: Network Advertising Initative. They have provided a site where you can control all third-party online advertising. Please note that there are many more networks listed on this site than those that we use at Whatagraph.
Other tracking technologies
In addition to cookies, we may use web beacons, pixel tags, and other tracking technologies on the Site to help customise the Site and improve your experience. A “web beacon” or “pixel tag” is tiny object or image embedded in a web page or email. They are used to track the number of users who have visited particular pages and viewed emails , and acquire other statistical data. They collect only a limited set of data, such as a cookie number, time and date of page or email view, and a description of the page or email on which they reside. Web beacons and pixel tags cannot be declined. However, you can limit their use by controlling the cookies that interact with them.