Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to control the cookie preferences. For further information on how we use, store, and keep your personal data secure, see our Privacy Policy.

You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.

Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us, and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.
Your consent applies to the following domains: www.thegreymattersnetwork.com

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.

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, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account and add products to your basket, and checkout securely.

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.

Marketing: Our website displays advertisements. These cookies are used to personalize the advertisements that we show to you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns.
The information stored in these cookies may also be used by the third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser as well.

Functional: TThese are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms.

Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.

The below list details the cookies used in our website.

Cookie	Type	Duration	Description
__stripe_mid		1 year	Stripe sets this cookie cookie to process payments.
__stripe_sid		30 minutes	Stripe sets this cookie cookie to process payments.
_ga	analytics, third party, anonymous	2 years	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
_ga_YW84YNX2G5		2 years	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics.
_gat	performance, third party	1 minute	This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the collection of data on high traffic sites.
_gat_gtag_UA_130476842_1		1 minute	Set by Google to distinguish users.
_gcl_au		3 months	Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services.
_gid	analytics, third party	1 day	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form.
_GRECAPTCHA		5 months 27 days	This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks.
CONSENT		2 years	YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement		6 months	Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the "Advertisement" category .
cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics		6 months	Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the "Analytics" category .
cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional		6 months	The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary		6 months	Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the "Necessary" category .
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary	persistent	1 year	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. It is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary	persistent	1 year	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. It is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Non-necessary".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary		6 months	Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the "Non-necessary" category .
cookielawinfo-checkbox-others		6 months	Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to store the user consent for cookies in the category "Others".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance		6 months	Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to store the user consent for cookies in the category "Performance".
CookieLawInfoConsent	persistent	1 year	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. It records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie
et-editor-available-post-*	functional		This cookie is set by the Elegant Themes WordPress theme used on this website. It is used to allow the website owners to edit the pages of the website.
IDE	advertising, third party	1 year	Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads, with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.
m		2 years	No description available.
test_cookie		15 minutes	The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user's browser supports cookies.
viewed_cookie_policy	persistent	1 year	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. It is the primary cookie that records the user consent for the usage of the cookies upon ‘accept’ and ‘reject.’ It does not track any personal data and is set only upon user action (accept/reject).
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	advertising, third party, functional	6 months	This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites. It can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface, and helps YouTube estimate bandwidth
wordpress_logged_in_*	functional	persistent	This cookie is set by WordPress and is used to keep users logged in.
wordpress_sec_*	functional	15 days	This cookie is set by WordPress and is used to provide protection against hackers, store account details.
wordpress_test_cookie	functional	0 minutes	This cookie is set by WordPress to check if cookies can be placed.
wp-settings-*	persistent, functional	persistent	This cookie is set by WordPress, and is used to store user preferences.
wp-settings-time-*	functional	1 year	This cookie is set by WordPress, and is used to store user preferences.
wpe-auth	functional, third party	session	This cookie is set by the hosting company WPEngine, to keep users logged in.
YSC		session	YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages.
yt-remote-connected-devices		never	YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video.
yt-remote-device-id		never	YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video.
yt.innertube::nextId		never	This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
yt.innertube::requests		never	This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Privacy & Cookie Policy” tab on your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.

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. To find out more about how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.