Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

Cookies, also known as browser cookies and tracking cookies, are small text files sent to your web browser by a website you visit. Cookies are created when your browser loads a website with cookies, and those cookies are then stored in your web browser. Cookies allow us and our third-party partners to recognize you and to make the Service more useful to you. Cookies are not harmful to your computer. To learn more about cookies in general, visit:

AllAboutCookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/

Use of cookies on this website

When you use and access the Service, we and our third-party partners may place cookie files in your web browser. The goal of our use of cookies is to improve your experience while using the Service. The cookies associated with the Service fall into three categories:

Strictly Necessary

Strictly necessary cookies are required to provide you with services available through our website. Without the strictly necessary cookies, we cannot provide some functionality necessary to using our service. For example, an essential cookie is used to keep track of your authentication to the website.

You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. To learn how to block or delete cookies, check out the “How to disable or update cookies” section of our Cookie Policy.

NOTE: These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

Performance Cookie

Performance cookies help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site, etc. These cookies are non-essential to the user of our platform. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

NOTE: All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies help us to customize our website to improve your experience on our website through enhanced functionality and personalization. The cookies may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we use. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.

According to the EU Cookie Law and the GDPR, we can store cookies on your device that are essential to the operation of the Service. For all other, non-essential types of cookies, we need your permission.

Cookies In Use

Strictly Necessary

Name: CookieScriptConsent

Domain: shortstack.com

Expiration: Session

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Name: _vwo_uuid_v2

Domain: .shortstack.com

Expiration: Session

Description: This cookie name is associated with the product Visual Website Optimiser, by USA based Wingify. The tool helps site owners measure the performance of different versions of web pages. This cookie ensures a visitor always sees the same version of a page and is used to track behaviour to measure the performance of different page versions.

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Name: __cfruid

Domain: .shortstack.zendesk.com

Expiration: Session

Description: Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to identify trusted web traffic.

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Name: AWSALB

Domain: widget-mediator.zopim.com

Expiration: Session

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Name: AWSALBCORS

Domain: widget-mediator.zopim.com

Expiration: Session

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Name: __zlcmid

Domain: .shortstack.com

Expiration: Session

Description: Live chat widget sets the cookies to store the Zopim Live Chat ID used to identify a device across visits.

Performance

Name: _ga

Domain: .shortstack.com

Expiration: Session

Description: This cookie name is asssociated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.

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Name: _gid

Domain: .shortstack.com

Expiration: Session

Description: This cookie name is asssociated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.

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Name: _dc_gtm_UA-65120905-7

Domain: .shortstack.com

Expiration: Session

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Name: _fbp

Domain: .shortstack.com

Expiration: Session

Description: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers

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Name: fr

Domain: .facebook.com

Expiration: Session

Description: Contains browser and user unique ID combinaton, used for targeted advertising.

Functional

Name: _server_session

Domain: .shortstack.com

Expiration: Session

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Name: _server_session

Domain: .pgtb.me

Expiration: Session

Social media sharing

When you share content from www.shortstack.com via social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, those websites might place cookies on your browser. We do not have control over these third-party cookies. Instead, you will need to visit those websites to learn more about those cookies and how you can manage them.

How to disable or update cookies

Your web browser can be used to delete or refuse cookies. Private browsing can also be used to prevent cookies from being set when you visit a website. Below is a list of browsers, with links to instructions on how to manage your cookie settings and how to implement private browsing:

Google Chrome: Learn about managing cookies and Incognito Browsing

Mozilla Firefox: Learn about managing cookies and Private Browsing

Internet Explorer: Learn about managing cookies and InPrivate Browsing

Safari: Learn about managing cookies and Private Browsing

Opera: Learn about managing cookies and Private Browsing

IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting cookies, refusing to accept and blocking cookies while using our Service may result in your not being able to take full advantage of our Service.