Whering Cookies Policy
Last modified: July 7th 2023
Whering Ltd (“Whering”, “us”, “our” or “we”) uses cookies and other similar technologies on its website whering.co (“Website”) to provide you with a user-friendly experience. For the purpose of any Personal Data we collect through cookies or other similar technologies, we are a Data Controller.
1. What are cookies
Cookies are small text files which our Website may put on your device during your first visit. Cookies do a lot of different tasks to ensure you enjoy your visit to our Website, like recognizing your device, letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your user experience.
There are different categories of cookies; first-party cookies, which are served directly by us to your computer or device and third-party cookies, which are served by a third party on our behalf for functionality, performance, analytics, and advertising purposes.
In addition to cookies, we also use similar technologies such as HTML5 local storage and mobile device IDs. They all help us measure and improve our Services and personalise your experience.
2. What types of cookies do we use and for what purpose
Generally, our cookies perform at least one of the following functions:
Necessary for essential services
Necessary cookies are essential to provide you with our Services. It enables basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the Services.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| whering.co | Whering | Allows the website to action your choice with respect to analytics requests | No expiry | HTTP cookie |
| app.whering.co.uk | Whering | Allows the website to action your choice with respect to analytics requests | No expiry | HTTP cookie |
Statistics and performance
Statistic and performance cookies help us understand how you interact with our Website, by collecting and reporting usage information.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GA4 | Internal analytics and tracking site performance. | No expiry | Statistics and performance |
Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track you across our Website. The intention is to target advertising and measure the effectiveness of our campaigns.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ttp | TikTok | These are cookies that record your visit to our Services, 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. | Deleted after 60 days | Third |
Functional
Functional cookies let us provide features you use on our Website, such as our help widget.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zendesk | Zendesk | Powers our help and support widget, recognises your device and keeps your support conversation available as you move between pages | Up to 1 year | Third |
Third-party content
Some pages include embedded content from social media platforms. These platforms may set their own cookies when the content loads.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meta | Set when embedded Instagram posts load on article pages, to recognise you, secure the service and measure how content is used. See Instagram's Cookie Policy | Up to 13 months | Third |
3. Your right to object
When you visit our Website, we will provide you with a cookies notice that explains how to change your cookies preferences.
Please note that some of the cookies we use are essential for the provision of our Website and you cannot turn them off. But there are other “optional cookies” that we will only use with your consent and which you can choose to turn off. Please note that if you choose to turn off some of the optional cookies, you may not be able to use all of our Website properly. For example, you may need to enter information repeatedly, or you might not get personalised content that is meaningful to you as many of our functions are dependent on cookies.
You can change your cookies preferences by following the instruction in our cookies notice or changing the settings in your browser. For more information on how to manage cookies in the most popular browsers, please see below:
- Cookie settings in Chrome for web
- Cookie settings for Android
- Cookie settings in Safari web
- Cookie settings for iOS
- Cookie settings in Edge
- Cookie settings in Firefox
4. More information
If you would like to find out more about cookies and their use on the Internet, you may find the following links useful:
5. Changes to this cookies policy
Any changes we make to our Cookies Policy in the future will be posted on this page, and where appropriate, notified to you by email, via the App, or by any other available means.