It’s our Cookie Policy
Please read our full cookie policy below.
Introduction
The following details the PG Bison (Pty) Limited cookie policy. This policy needs to be viewed in conjunction with the PG Bison privacy policy, which can be accessed here. The purpose of this policy is to describe what cookies are, what we use them for, and how you can manage them during your visit to or use of our website.
What are cookies?
We may place small text files called ‘cookies’ on your device when you visit our website. These files do not contain personal information, but they do contain a personal identifier allowing us to associate your personal information with a certain device. Many websites use cookies and you can find out more about them at www.allaboutcookies.org.
Why do we use cookies?
- Tailoring our website’s functionality to you personally by letting us remember your preferences, location or device type;
- Improving how our website performs;
- Understanding who our audience is so that we can provide content most relevant to you;
- Allowing third parties to provide services to our website; and
- Helping us deliver interest-based advertising where appropriate in compliance with applicable laws.
The types of cookies we use
We use different types of cookies on our website. Some of these cookies are placed by us, while others are placed by our third-party plug-ins. These cookies may be deleted from your device at different times, such as at the end of your browsing session (when you leave the website) or after a pre-set amount of time, or they may persist on your device until you delete them.
We use the following types of cookies on our website -
- Essential cookies – these are cookies that allow our website to perform its essential functions and without these cookies some parts of our website would stop working.
- Site analytics cookies – these are cookies that monitor how our website is performing, and how you interact with it. We use these cookies to know how best to improve our website or services.
- Functional cookies – these are cookies that remember who you are as a user of our website, and we use them to remember any preferences you may have selected on our website, like saving your username and password, or settings.
- Advertising cookies – these are cookies that matches your interests or web searches with applicable advertising campaigns on our website. We use these cookies to provide you with advertising that we think you might find useful.
- Social media cookies – these are cookies that integrate with social media platforms and we use them to help you share content from our website to your chosen social media platform.
- Third party cookies – these are cookies that some of our service providers (eg Google) use on our website and we have no access to or control over them. Information collected by any of these cookies or widgets is governed by the privacy policy of the entity that created it.
Our cookies
The following types of cookies are used on this website -
| Cookie name | Cookie type | Cookie function | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gid, _gid, _ga | Site Analytics Third Party |
Monitor website performance to improve performance | 2 years |
| ANID | Advertising Third Party |
The "ANID" cookie is used for advertising served across the web and stored in google.com | 2 years |
| Facebook Pixel | Advertising Third Party |
Provide you with advertising you might find useful | 180 days |
| PHPSESSID | Functional | Used for managing user session on the website | At the end of the session |
| SAPISID, SSID, NID, APISID | Advertising Functional Third Party |
These cookies are used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website | 2 years |
| HSID | Functional Third Party |
The "HSID" cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to build a profile of the website visitors’ interests and show relevant ads on other sites | 2 years |
| __Secure-3PSID, __Secure-3PSIDCC |
Advertising Third Party |
Builds a profile of website visitors’ interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting | 2 years |
| SIDCC | Essential Third Party |
Protects users’ data from unauthorized access | At the end of the session |
| 1P_JAR, CONSENT | Analytics Third Party |
This group sets a unique ID to remember your preferences and other information such as website statistics and track conversion rates | 2 years |
| _wpss_h_, JCS_INENREF. JCS_INENTIM |
Essential Third Party |
Monitors user engagement to prevent spam on the website | At the end of the session |
| sb | Social Media Analytics Third Party |
To store browser details | 23 months |
| fr | Social Media Advertising Third Party |
To enable ad delivery or retargeting | 3 months |
| OTZ Essential | Third Party | “OTZ” is a cookie used by Google Analytics that provides an aggregate analysis of website visitors. | 2 years |
| _gcl_au | Functional Third Party |
To store and track conversions | 45 days |
| C_user, xs | Analytics Social Media Third Party |
To store a unique user ID | 90 days |
| Datr | Advertising Social Media Third Party |
To provide fraud prevention | 2 years |
| wd | Functional Social Media Third Party |
To determine screen resolution | 1 week |
Deleting cookies
Your internet browser generally accepts cookies automatically, but you can often change this setting to stop accepting them. You can also delete cookies manually. You can read how to do this at:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-delete-cookies/.
Deleting or no longer accepting cookies may prevent you from accessing certain aspects of our website where cookies are necessary, or cause the website to forget your preferences