Cookie Policy

Last updated: January 2024

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to the owners of the site.

Cookies allow a website to recognize your device and remember information about your visit, like your preferences and settings. This helps improve your experience and makes the website more useful to you.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and hold certain information. The cookies we use can be categorized as follows:

Types of Cookies We Use

1. Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

2. Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This helps us improve the website's structure and content.

  • Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to track website usage and behavior. This helps us understand how users navigate our site and which content is most popular.

3. Advertising Cookies

These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

  • Google AdSense: We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google AdSense uses cookies to personalize ads and measure ad performance.
  • DoubleClick: Google's DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to our site and other sites on the Internet.

4. Preference Cookies

These cookies enable the website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region you are in.

Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics, deliver advertisements, and so on. These third-party services may include:

  • Google Analytics (analytics)
  • Google AdSense (advertising)
  • Google Tag Manager (tag management)
  • Facebook Pixel (if social sharing is enabled)

How to Control Cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. However, if you do this, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site.

Browser Settings

Most web browsers allow you to manage cookies through their settings preferences. Here's how to manage cookies in common browsers:

  • Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies and other site data
  • Mozilla Firefox: Options > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data
  • Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Cookies and website data
  • Microsoft Edge: Settings > Site permissions > Cookies and site data

Google Ads Opt-Out

You can opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting the Google Advertising opt-out page at www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/. You can also opt out of third-party vendor cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page at www.networkadvertising.org/choices/.

Cookie Duration

Cookies can be either "session" or "persistent" cookies:

  • Session cookies: These are temporary and are deleted when you close your browser.
  • Persistent cookies: These remain on your device until they expire or you delete them. They may last for a few hours, days, months, or even years.

Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

Contact Us

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

SASSA Status Check

Email: cookies@sasa-status-check.co.za

Website: sasa-status-check.co.za