This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how WealthWise ("we", "us" or "our") uses them on our website. We encourage you to read this policy in order to understand what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to manage the cookie preferences.
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.
1. 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.
2. 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, providing educational information that's 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.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
Essential Cookies
These cookies are essential for the proper functioning of our website. Without these cookies, the website would not work properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation, access to secure areas, and form submission. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
Session Cookies: These temporary cookies are erased when you close your browser. They enable the website to remember what you've done during your visit.
Security Cookies: These cookies help detect and prevent security risks and ensure the safety of our users.
Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it.
Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use our website, like which pages you visited and which links you clicked on.
Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features.
Marketing Cookies
These cookies track your online activity to help us deliver more relevant educational content based on your interests. They can also limit the number of times you see the same content and help us measure the effectiveness of our educational campaigns.
Targeting Cookies: These cookies may be set through our site by our educational partners to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant educational content.
Social Media Cookies: These cookies are set by social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your networks and friends.
4. Specific Cookies We Use
Necessary Cookies
Name
Provider
Purpose
Expiry
ww_session
wealthwise.co.za
Preserves user session state across page requests
Session
ww_csrf
wealthwise.co.za
Helps prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks
Session
ww_cookie_consent
wealthwise.co.za
Stores your cookie consent preferences
1 year
Analytics Cookies
Name
Provider
Purpose
Expiry
_ga
Google
Registers a unique ID used to generate statistical data on how you use the website
2 years
_gid
Google
Registers a unique ID used to generate statistical data on how you use the website
24 hours
_gat
Google
Used to throttle request rate
1 minute
Marketing Cookies
Name
Provider
Purpose
Expiry
_fbp
Facebook
Used by Facebook to deliver educational content based on user behavior
3 months
_gcl_au
Google
Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency
3 months
5. How Can You Manage Cookies?
You can manage your cookies preferences at any time by clicking on the "Cookie Settings" button at the bottom of any page. This will allow you to:
Accept all cookies
Reject all cookies except for essential cookies
Customize your preferences for different types of cookies
Additionally, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
How to manage cookies in different web browsers
Find out how to manage cookies on the most popular browsers:
Please note that restricting cookies may impact the functionality of our website. For example, you might not be able to save certain preferences or you might need to log in each time you visit.
6. Third-Party Cookies
In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimizations our users appreciate the most.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, social media sites including Facebook, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
7. More Information
Hopefully, this policy has clarified things for you. As was previously mentioned, if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not, it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.
However, if you are still looking for more information, you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.
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