Cookie Policy
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit our website. They help enable website features and functionality, such as recognizing your device, securing access, saving your preferences, and analyzing your usage patterns.
2. Why We Use Cookies
We use cookies in order to:
- Ensure efficient and secure functioning of our website, including support for security features and detection of malicious activity.
- Understand, improve, and study our services, including usage from different devices.
- Recognize returning visitors and personalize your experience, such as preventing repeated logins or re-entry of information.
- Analyze navigation habits to make the website more intuitive and efficient.
- Measure traffic flow and user behavior to collect statistical data.
- Deliver targeted advertising, showing more relevant ads and assessing their performance.
- Link cookie-derived data with other information (where permitted by applicable laws), such as service usage or loyalty programs.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
We use both session (deleted after closing your browser) and persistent cookies (remain until expiry or deletion by you).
Cookies fall into these categories:
- Strictly necessary cookies – Required for website functionality, including storing session data and enabling secure logins. Without these, certain features may not work properly.
- Preferences / Functional cookies – Store your settings such as language and timezone. They enhance usability but do not track you across other websites.
- Analytics / Statistical cookies – Help us recognize repeat visitors, track how users navigate, and identify areas for improvement.
- Marketing / Advertising cookies – Record your visit and browsing behavior to deliver relevant advertising and measure its effectiveness.
4. Third-Party Cookies
- Advertising cookies: Ads displayed on our site may come from third parties who set their own cookies. We don’t control those cookies, and we recommend reviewing their privacy or cookie policies.
- Other third-party cookies: Our site may embed content (like social media plugins), which may also set cookies. These cookies and the data they collect are not accessible to us, and vice versa.
- We use Google Analytics to understand traffic and user behavior. This sends data to and stores it with Google, subject to Google’s policies.
5. Managing Cookies
Most browsers allow you to refuse or delete cookies via browser settings. However, disabling strictly necessary cookies may impair the functionality of the website.
6. Cookie Details
| Cookie Name | Provider | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
PHPSESSID |
ahosting.net | Strictly Necessary | Session | Maintains user session across page requests (e.g., login, cart, preferences). |
_ga |
Google Analytics | Analytics | 2 years | Distinguishes users for website analytics and performance tracking. |
_gid |
Google Analytics | Analytics | 24 hours | Tracks user behavior across pages for statistical purposes. |
_gat |
Google Analytics | Performance | 1 minute | Throttles request rate to limit data collection on high-traffic websites. |
__cf_bm |
Cloudflare | Security | 30 minutes | Protects the website from bots and malicious traffic. |
cookieConsent |
ahosting.net | Preferences | 1 year | Stores the user’s cookie consent preferences (Accept/Reject). |
fr |
Facebook Pixel | Marketing | 3 months | Provides ad delivery and retargeting across Facebook platforms. |
NID |
Marketing | 6 months | Stores user preferences and helps personalize ads in Google services. | |
lang |
ahosting.net | Preferences | Session | Remembers the user’s selected language settings. |
| *The cookies listed above are examples. Names, durations, and purposes may vary depending on your actual integrations. | ||||
7. Deleting Data Collected via Cookies
For more information on how to manage or delete cookies, and to learn more about their use, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org or consult your browser’s help section. Additionally, you may contact us [cookies @ ahosting . net] if you have any questions regarding our cookie usage.
8. Updates to This Policy
We may amend this Cookie Policy periodically. Changes will be posted here along with an updated “Last revised” date : 2025-09-15
9. Contact Us
For any questions or inquiries about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at [cookies @ ahosting . net]
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