Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters that can be placed on your computer or mobile device that uniquely identify your browser or device.
What are cookies used for?
Cookies allow a site or services to know if your computer or device has visited that site or service before. Cookies can then be used to help understand how the site or service is being used, help you navigate between pages efficiently, help remember your preferences, and generally improve your browsing experience. Cookies can also help ensure marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests.
What types of cookies do we use?
There are generally four categories of cookies: “Strictly Necessary,” “Performance,” “Functionality,” and “Targeting.” We routinely use two of these categories of cookies on the Service. You can find out more about each cookie category below.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential, as they enable you to move around the Service and use its features, such as accessing logged in or secure areas. Because these cookies are essential, they cannot be disabled. For both visitors to the CloseFactor website (losefactor.com) and logged-in users of the CloseFactor web app (ai.closefactor.com):
| Cookie name | Domain | Description | Furthur information |
|---|---|---|---|
| crumb | closefactor.com | Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF) |
Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how you have used the Service, for example, information related to the unique username you have provided, so that less strain is placed on our backend infrastructure. These cookies may also be used to allow us to know that you have logged in so that we can serve you fresher content than a user who has never logged in. We also use cookies to track aggregate Service usage in an anonymized fashion and experiment with new features and changes on the Service. The information collected is used to improve how the Service works.For both visitors to the CloseFactor website and logged-in users of the CloseFactor web app:
| Cookie name | Domain | Description | Furthur information |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gat; _ga; _gid | google.com | These cookies are used by Google Analytics for session tracking for analytics purposes. These cookies are typically written to the browser upon the first visit. If the cookies have been deleted by the browser operator, and the browser subsequently visits closefactor.com, new cookies are written with a different unique ID. In most cases, these cookies are used to determine unique visitors to closefactor.com and are updated with each page view. | |
| ss_cid | closefactor.com | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site | |
| ss_cpvisit | closefactor.com | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site | |
| ss_cvisit | closefactor.com | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site | |
| ss_cvr | closefactor.com | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site | |
| ss_cvt | closefactor.com | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site |
Functionality Cookies
These cookies allow us to tailor certain features and content of the Service to you, and to remember how you’ve customized the Service in other ways.
We currently do not use targeting cookies for either the CloseFactor website or the CloseFactor web app. If we do start using targeting cookies, we will add more information here.
Targeting Cookies
WE, our advertising partners or other third party partners may use these types of cookies to deliver advertising that is relevant to your interests. These cookies can remember that your device has visited a site or service, and may also be able to track your device’s browsing activity on other sites or services other than ours. This information may be shared with organizations outside of ours, such as advertisers and/or advertising networks to deliver the advertising, and to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign, or other business partners for the purpose of providing aggregate Service usage statistics and aggregate Service testing.
We currently do not use targeting cookies for either the CloseFactor website or the CloseFactor web app. If we do start using targeting cookies, we will add more information here.
How long will cookies stay on my device?
The length of time a cookie will stay on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your computer or mobile device until they expire or are deleted.
How to control and review cookies.
All modern browsers allow you to adjust your cookie settings. Should you need more information to understand these settings, please use your browser’s ‘Help’ option.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains detailed information about how to adjust settings on a wide variety of browsers. Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of our website.