Below is our Cookie Policy. We also have Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Our Privacy Policy explains our principles when it comes to the collection, processing, and storage of your information. This policy specifically explains how we, our partners, and users of our services deploy cookies, as well as the options you have to control them.
Below are examples of the cookies set by GGather, with explanations of their purpose. Some of these cookies are set across our whole network, whereas some are specific to individual services (e.g. GGather.com API). Please note that this is not an exhaustive list, but rather aims to be representative. Information about cookies that may be set by third parties, such as our ads partners, is below.
In addition, people and companies that use our services to publish or host their own sites may place additional cookies. We provide more information on these cookies below.
Cookie | Purpose |
ads | Tracks if a visitor has clicked an ad before. |
Please also see the section below on third party advertisements that you may see on our sites or sites that use our services.
Cookie | Purpose |
ab | Used for “AB testing” of new features. |
utma / utmb / utmc / utmt / utmz / ga / gat / gid | Google Analytics. Gathers information that helps us understand how visitors interact with our websites, which allow us to create a better experience for our visitors. Our users may also implement Google Analytics on their own websites or public accounts. |
Cookie | Purpose |
jwttoken | Used to authenticate signed in user. |
paddlejs_checkout / paddlejs_checkout_variant | Paddle.com payment processor cookies used to help in checkout process and checkout analytics. |
Cookie | Purpose |
csrftoken | Security cookie used to make sure some requests can be only performed from our website. |
__cfduid | Cloudflare.com cookie that is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. |
Cookie | Purpose |
ggather_test_cookie | Checks if cookies are enabled to provide appropriate user experience. |
Advertisements from Third Parties Through GGather’s Ads Program
Our mission is to democratize publishing. So that we can offer free access to create a website using GGather.com, we show ads on some of our users’ sites. Our users may also choose to place ads on their site through our ads program. Additionally, we also show ads from our ads program on some of our own websites (e.g. longreads.com), and in emails.
We operate our ads program in partnership with third party vendors. As part of the operation of our ads program, we use cookies to collect certain information. Advertising cookies enable us and our partners to serve ads and to personalize those ads based on information like visits to our sites and other sites on the Internet.
Below is a representative list of our advertising program partners, along with information on the cookies that that each partner sets. The partners we work with change from time to time, and this is not an exhaustive list. Your choices to control cookies related to our ads program are described below.
Partner | Cookie Info |
Amazon | https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=footer_iba?ie=UTF8&nodeId=201909150 |
https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ | |
Google (AdSense, DoubleClick Ad Exchange “AdX”) | https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads |
Please note that this section is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather aims to be representative and there may be other additional cookies set.
In order to better understand how our services are used, we monitor certain user activities that take place within our products, including page views and clicks on any links used when managing a site via our dashboards.
We call each one of these actions an “event.” Analytics events are attached to your GGather account and are handled via a first party system that GGather owns and maintains. In general, we record the following data for each event: IP address, GGather user ID and username, GGather-connected site ID (for sites not hosted on GGather), user agent, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, and country code.
We use this information to improve our products, make our marketing to you more relevant, personalize your experience, and for the other purposes described in our Privacy Policy.
This document was last updated on 1st January 2019.
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