SurePay Cookie Statement
1. Introduction
SurePay uses cookies and similar techniques to ensure the correct and secure operation of its website. It also enables us to inform you better about relevant products and services on surepay.wpengine.com.
Cookies are small, simple text files that we place on your computer, tablet or mobile phone when you visit our website. Information about your visit is kept in these cookies. On your next visit with the same device, the information in this text file will be consulted so that we can recognize you.
Did you know that there are different types of cookies? And do you know what they are used for? The following is an overview of the relevant information.
2. Why do we use cookies?
The information stored in cookies is used for our website, but may also be used by other parties to collect personal data. For example, information such as your IP-address, or your click behaviour on surepay.wpengine.com. Of course, this only happens when you have given us your permission for this.
We use the information obtained from cookies for the following purposes:
- to inform you better and in a more personal way of our products and services
- to improve our website for safety purposes
- to manage our relationship with you, our customer.
3. Types of cookies
Functional cookies
Some cookies are needed to use the primary functions of the website. For example, to memorize language settings, but also to prevent the website from being overloaded. We use this information to improve our website, not to create personal profiles. That is why we do not ask you for your permission for it.
Statistic cookies
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors 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 party advertisers.
Analytical cookies
We also use cookies to analyze how often the website is visited and which parts of the website are visited more. We use this information to improve the website. This information will not be used to create personal profiles. That is why we do not ask you for your permission for it.
We use Google Analytics to collect visitor statistics to improve our site. A relevant data processing agreement has been concluded with Google. Data exchange with other Google services is switched off and IP addresses are anonymized. If you prefer blocking the Analytics script completely, you can download an opt-out plugin for Google Analytics here. This plugin will exclude your visit from the statistics of all websites using Google Analytics.
Other tracking technologies
Tags are pieces of code, such as HTML or JavaScript, which are deployed on your website for analytics or marketing purposes, or it could be a social media plugin as well. They are also known by names such as tracking pixel, web beacons, ultrasound beacons and many others depending on their functions.
Google Tag Manager is a tag management service provided by Google Ireland Limited.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy here.
Which personal information?
Personal data means for example your IP address, the content of the cookie and your visited web pages. More information about the processing of personal data can be found in our privacy statement.
4. Allowing cookies
It is up to you which cookies you allow. For instance, you can manage and adjust your settings for the cookies on this page. Do you want to prevent websites from installing cookies on your computer, tablet or mobile telephone? Then delete your cookies by adjusting your browser settings. You have to adjust these cookie settings separately for each browser. If you reject surepay.wpengine.com cookies, you may be asked on each visit if you wish to accept them.
5. Withdraw of cookie consent
You can always withdraw cookies consent by deleting the cookies in your browser.
6. Cookies and other techniques
First Party Cookies
Functional cookies
| Name of the cookie | Purpose | Retention period | Data sent to | Entity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CookieConsent | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain | 1 year | Netherlands | Surepay.nl |
| PHPSESSID | Preserves user session state across page requests | Session time (several hours) | Netherlands | Surepay.nl |
Third Party Cookies
Functional cookies
| Name of the cookie | Purpose | Retention period | Data sent to | Entity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | United States | Google.com |
| rc::c | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots | Session time (several hours) | United States | Google.com |
Statistic cookies
| Name of the cookie | Purpose | Retention period | Data sent to | Entity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | 1 day | United States | Google.com |
| _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 1 day | United States | Google.com |
| _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | a max of 2 years | United States | Google.com |
Marketing cookies
| Name of the cookie | Purpose | Retention period | Data sent to | Entity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IDE | 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. | 1 year | United States | doubleclick.net |
| test_cookie | Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies | 1 day | United States | doubleclick.net |
Tag tracking
Marketing cookies
| Name of the cookie | Purpose | Retention period | Data sent to | Entity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ads/ga-audiences | Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites. | Session time (several hours) | United States | Google.com |
| pagead/1p-user-list/ | Tracks if the user has shown interest in specific products or events across multiple websites and detects how the user navigates between sites. This is used for measurement of advertisement efforts and facilitates payment of referral-fees between websites. | a max of 2 years | United States | Google.com |
7. Local Storage
Sometimes your data is not stored in a cookie, but in the ‘local storage’ of your browser. We use HTML5 Local Storage to store data. This works more or less the same way as cookies. With local storage, you decide how long the browser keeps the data. This depends on your browser settings and/or on how often you delete your browser history.
The following data is stored in your local storage:
| Data | When is the cookie stored? | Purpose of storing |
|---|---|---|
| Usbl | Properly functioning website | We use this for the feedback forms on our website to allow us to inspect the feedback and to improve our website on the basis of this feedback. |
8. Can we change this Cookie Statement?
Yes, our cookie statement may change from time to time. You can always find the most current version of our Cookie Statement at surepay.wpengine.com. If you have any questions about this cookie statement, please contact us at [email protected].
