Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy sets out how and why we handle your personal data through the use of cookies.
This Cookie Policy should be read alongside Pyypal’s Privacy Policy.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small files of letters and digits downloaded and saved on your computer or another device (for instance, a mobile phone, a tablet) and saved in your browser while you visit a website. They can be used to track the pages you visit on the website, save the information you enter, or remember your preferences such as language settings as long as you’re browsing the website.

2. Why are cookies used?

Cookies are needed to enable us to make our digital services easier for you to use, to get informationon how visitors use our website and to improve the service to visitors and enhance  the user experience. Cookies are also used for our marketing or analytics purposes.

3. What categories of cookies may we use?

There are different categories of cookies we use or may use from time-to-time. We use both first-party cookies and third-party cookies on our website. You can accept all cookies or certain categories. When you accept a category, you accept all cookies in that category (please see detailed "List of cookies" below). You can always change your preferences and decline cookies.
 
Strictly necessary cookies – these allow you to access various parts of our website and are saved on your device while you visit the site. These cookies are crucial to the functioning of the website and cannot be switched off. Essential cookies are installed depending on your activities on the website. We process personal data using necessary cookies based on our justified interest.

Functional - these cookies allow a website to remember your site preferences and choices you make on the site including user name, region, and language. This allows the website to provide personalized features like local news stories and weather if you share your location and boost your overall user experience on our website. The data collected via these cookies is anonymous and these cookies do not track browsing activity across other websites. Similarly, to strictly necessary cookies, we do not need to ask for your consent to use these cookies.

Performance – these are used specifically for gathering data on how visitors use our website, which pages of our website are visited most often and whether the users get error messages on web pages. These cookies monitor only the performance of the website as the user interacts with it. These cookies do not collect identifiable information on visitors, which means all the data collected is anonymous and only used to improve the functionality of our website. We also use these cookies to gather statistical data on how our website is performing in order to make improvements. Despite the anonymity of the data collected, we will seek your consent to the use of these cookies.

Persistent - these are stored on your device to help our website remember information, settings, preferences, or sign-on credentials that you have previously saved. This helps us to create a convenient and faster website experience for you. These cookies have an expiration date issued to it by the web server so, when you close your browser and start it up again, the cookie is still there. Once the expiration date is reached, the cookie is destroyed. Persistent cookies track visitors as they move around our website to figure out what users like about the website to help improve the user experience. We will seek your consent to the use of these cookies.

Session - this is a server-specific cookie that cannot be passed to any machine other than the one that generated the cookie. The session cookie allows the browser to re-identify itself to the single, unique server to which you had previously authenticated. The session key stored in the session cookie contains only a random number identifier that is used to index the server's session cache. There is no other information exposed in the session cookie. We will seek your consent to the use of these cookies.

4. What types of cookies do we use?

The types of cookies we use fall into one of the categories listed above. Please refer to the table below for the list of cookies we currently use and which appear on our website.