1. 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, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
Cookies allow websites to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don't have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
2. How We Use Cookies
Matelmyrmi uses cookies for several important reasons:
- To provide a great experience for our visitors and customers
- To identify our registered members (users who have registered on our site)
- To monitor and analyze the performance, operation and effectiveness of our platform
- To ensure our platform is secure and safe to use
3. Types of Cookies We Use
3.1 Essential Cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary for the operation of our website. They enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. Without these cookies, our website cannot function properly.
- Session cookies: Store information during your visit
- Security cookies: Authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use
- Load balancing cookies: Help distribute the workload
3.2 Performance and Analytics Cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and anonymous.
- Google Analytics: Helps us understand user behavior
- Heat mapping: Shows us how users interact with our pages
- A/B testing: Allows us to test different versions of our content
3.3 Functionality Cookies
These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features.
- Preference cookies: Remember your settings and choices
- Language cookies: Remember your language preference
- Accessibility cookies: Remember accessibility options
3.4 Marketing and Targeting Cookies
These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They may also be used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
- Social media cookies: Enable social media features
- Advertising cookies: Deliver relevant advertisements
- Retargeting cookies: Show relevant ads on other websites
4. Third-Party Cookies
We may also use or allow third parties to serve cookies that fall into the categories above. For example, like many websites, we may use Google Analytics to help us monitor our website traffic. We may also use third parties to help us with paid search, social media and display advertising.
4.1 Third-Party Services We Use
- Google Analytics: Web analytics service
- Facebook Pixel: Social media advertising
- YouTube: Video content embedding
- Social Media Platforms: Social sharing buttons
5. Cookie Duration
Cookies may be either "session" cookies or "persistent" cookies:
5.1 Session Cookies
Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site. They are deleted when you close your browser.
5.2 Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie). They help us recognize you as a returning visitor.
6. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have several options for managing cookies:
6.1 Cookie Consent Banner
When you first visit our website, you'll see a cookie consent banner that allows you to:
- Accept all cookies
- Accept only necessary cookies
- Customize your cookie preferences
6.2 Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. You can:
- Block all cookies
- Block third-party cookies
- Delete cookies when you close your browser
- Be notified when a cookie is set
6.3 Opting Out of Analytics
You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on available at:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
7. Impact of Disabling Cookies
Please note that if you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of our website may become inaccessible or not function properly. Specifically:
- You may need to re-enter information more frequently
- Some features may not work correctly
- We may not be able to remember your preferences
- The website experience may be less personalized
8. Cookie Updates
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies.
9. More Information
If you would like to learn more about cookies in general, you can visit:
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us at:
Matelmyrmi
16B Walker Fire Track
Kirlinshire, SA 2873
Australia
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +61301272127