What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
How do we use cookies?
As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
What type of cookies do we use?
Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They help us to prevent any security threats and make the site work correctly. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to select the language.
Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
| Name | Provider | Type | Category | Expires In | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | greaterwaves.com | First Party | Statistical | 2 years | These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works. |
| _ga_WVPSPBRBXNY | greaterwaves.com | First Party | Statistical | 2 years | These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works. |
| _GRECAPTCHA | www.google.com | Third Party | Essential | 6 months | While Google usually places advertising cookies, this cookie is placed by recaptcha to analyze the visitor’s site usage and prevent bots from using website forms. |
| wp-wpml_current_language | greaterwaves.com | First Party | Essential | Session | Stores the current language. This cookie is enabled by default on sites that use the Language filtering for AJAX operations feature. The cookie is necessary to provide multilanguage capabilities to the site. |
| privacy_embeds | greaterwaves.com | First Party | Essential | 30 days | This cookie is used to manage and store user consent to load the different third party embeds and tracking scripts |
How can I control preferences?
Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you withdraw consent or opt-out to any cookies that are not essential below.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies.