Cookie policy

This cookie notice explains how we use cookies on our website, ibdmate.com (‘Website’), and what they do. Cookies help the site function properly, remember your preferences, and improve your experience. Some cookies are essential, while others help us understand how the site is used. For more information about how we protect your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.

The Website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the Website. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. Cookies help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the Website and also allows us to improve the Website.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of the Website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way the Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality cookies. These are used when you sign up for an account with the Website to recognise you when you return to the Website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to the Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make the Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Cookie title / namePurpose
PHPSESSIDThis is a session cookie that helps the website remember who you are while you're using it (for example, keeping you logged in or remembering your progress). It disappears when you close your browser.
cookie_consentThis cookie remembers whether you’ve accepted or declined cookies — so we don’t keep asking you every time you visit.
_ga and _ga_XXXXXXXXThese are Google Analytics cookies. They help us understand how people use our website (like which pages are popular or how long people stay). This information helps us improve the site, but we can’t see who you are — everything is anonymous. Please refer to Google Analytics privacy policy for more information.