Cookie Policy

How we use cookies and similar technologies on our website

Last Updated: March 12, 2025

This Cookie Policy explains how SiteReady24 ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at siteready24.com and related domains (collectively, the "Sites"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, SiteReady24) are called "first-party cookies." Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies." Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

2. Why Do We Use Cookies?

We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Sites to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Sites. Third parties serve cookies through our Sites for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

The specific types of first and third-party cookies served through our Sites and the purposes they perform are described below:

3.1 Essential Cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Sites and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like shopping carts or e-billing, cannot be provided.

  • Session Cookies: We use session cookies to operate our Service, including to authenticate you and process payment information. These cookies are temporary and are deleted when you close your browser.
  • Security Cookies: We use security cookies to protect our Sites and Services from malicious activity and to verify your account and remember your preferences.

3.2 Performance and Functionality Cookies

These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Sites but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable.

  • Preference Cookies: We use preference cookies to remember information that changes the way the Sites behave or look, like your preferred language or the region you are in.
  • Authentication Cookies: We use authentication cookies to identify you when you visit our Sites and as you navigate our Sites, and to help us determine if you are logged into our Services.

3.3 Analytics and Customization Cookies

These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Sites are being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Sites for you.

  • Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our Sites. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our Sites is used to create reports about the use of our Sites.
  • HotJar: We use HotJar to understand how users interact with our Sites by recording user sessions and creating heatmaps of user activity.

3.4 Marketing Cookies

These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.

  • Facebook Pixel: We use Facebook Pixel to deliver targeted advertisements to users who have visited our Sites.
  • Google Ads: We use Google Ads cookies to track conversions from Google Ads campaigns.

3.5 Social Media Cookies

These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our Sites through third-party social networking and other websites. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes.

  • Facebook: We use Facebook cookies to enable Facebook features on our Sites, such as the "Like" button.
  • Twitter: We use Twitter cookies to enable Twitter features on our Sites, such as the "Tweet" button.

4. Cookies Used on Websites We Create

When we create websites for our clients, we may implement cookies and similar technologies on those websites as requested by our clients or as necessary for the functionality of those websites. The cookies implemented on client websites are subject to each client's own cookie policy and privacy policy. We are not responsible for cookies or similar technologies used on websites we create for clients.

5. How Can You Control Cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by following the mechanisms described below:

5.1 Browser Controls

You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Sites though your access to some functionality and areas of our Sites may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.

5.2 Cookie Banner

We provide you with a cookie banner when you first visit our Sites, giving you the opportunity to accept or decline non-essential cookies.

5.3 Third-Party Opt-Out

Some third parties provide ways to opt out of advertising cookies across multiple sites. For more information, please visit:

  • Network Advertising Initiative
  • Digital Advertising Alliance
  • European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance

Please note that opting out of advertising cookies does not mean you will not see advertisements, but those advertisements will no longer be tailored to your interests.

6. Specific Information About the Cookies We Use

The table below provides more specific information about the particular cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them:

Name Provider Purpose Expiration
_ga Google Analytics Used to distinguish users. 2 years
_gid Google Analytics Used to distinguish users. 24 hours
_gat Google Analytics Used to throttle request rate. 1 minute
_hjid Hotjar Sets a unique ID for the session to allow Hotjar to determine if this is a new or returning user. 1 year
_fbp Facebook Used by Facebook to deliver advertisements to users who have visited our Sites. 3 months
_gcl_au Google Ads Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency. 3 months
auth_token SiteReady24 Used to keep users logged in. 2 weeks
csrf_token SiteReady24 Used to help protect against Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. Session
session_id SiteReady24 Used to maintain user sessions. Session

7. Changes to This Cookie Policy

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.

8. Questions and Contact Information

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us at:

Email: privacy@siteready24.com
Address: SCO 123, Sector 17, Chandigarh 160017, India

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