Cookies
Last Updated: January 27, 2025
Planyway uses cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. Below we define the terms "cookies" and "web beacons", explain why we use cookies and web beacons and what types of cookies and web beacons we use as well as what you can do in order to manage and delete cookies and web beacons.
What are cookies and web beacons?
- Cookies are small text files that websites often store on computer hard drives or mobile devices of visitors. A cookie contains a unique number, which is used to recognize your computer or mobile device when you return to our Website. Cookies can remain on your computer or mobile device for different periods of time. Cookies can be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies are stored in a web browser and remain valid until a set expiration date. Session cookies only exist while your internet browser is open and are automatically deleted once you close your browser.
- Web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) are small electronic files contained on pages of websites that permit companies to count users who have visited certain webpages on a website and are used for other related website statistics (e.g., recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
Cookies category:
- Necessary. Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of a website. A website cannot function properly without these cookies.
- Statistics. Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
- Marketing. Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for an individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.
- Unclassified. Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies.
What does Planyway use cookies and web beacons for?
Planyway uses a variety of cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies for different purposes. Specifically, Planyway uses cookies and web beacons to enhance the experience of our visitors to our Website (for example, by remembering your preferences and letting you navigate between pages efficiently) and to better understand how the Website and Product are used. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited the Website before or whether you are a new visitor.
The table below lists the types of cookies and third party service providers currently used by Planyway but may not include all cookies or third party service providers. In addition, the below list of cookies and third party service providers is can be changed at any time.
Cookie category |
Cookie name |
Who serves it |
Cookie purpose description |
Expiry |
| Necessary | AI_buffer | Application insights | Used in context with the "AI_setBuffer" in order to limit the number of data-server-updates (Azure). This synergy also allows the website to detect any duplicate data-server-updates. | Session |
| Necessary | AI_sentBuffer | Application insights | Used in context with the “Al_buffer” in order to limit the number of data-server-updates (Azure). This synergy also allows the website to detect any duplicate data-server-updates. | Session |
| Necessary | ai_session | Application insights | Preserves users states across page requests. | 1 day |
| Statistic | _ga | Google Analytics | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how a visitor uses the website. | 2 years |
| Statistic | _gat | Google Analytics | Used by Google Analytics to control request rate. | 1 day |
| Statistic | _gid | Google Analytics | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how a visitor uses the website. | 1 day |
| Statistic | ai_user | Application insights | Used by Microsoft Application Insights software to collect statistical usage and telemetry information. The cookie stores a unique identifier to recognize users on returning visits over time. | 1 year |
| Marketing | amplitude_cookie_test | Amplitude | Detects whether partner data synchronization is functioning and currently running - This function sends user data between third-party advertisement companies for the purpose of targeted advertisements. | Session |
| Marketing | amplitude_unsent_#GUID# | Amplitude | Used in context with the website’s pop -up questionnaires and notifications. The data is used for statistical purposes. | Persistent |
| Marketing | amplitude_unsent_identify_#GUID# | Amplitude | Used in context with the website’s pop -up questionnaires and notifications. The data is used for statistical purposes. | Persistent |
| Marketing | GPS | Youtube | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location . | 1 day |
| Marketing | IDE | doubleclick.net | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and presenting targeted ads to the user. | 1 year |
| Marketing | test_cookie | doubleclick.net | Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. | 1 day |
| Marketing | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | youtube.com | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | 179 days |
| Marketing | YSC | youtube.com | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session |
| Necessary | billingType | Planyway | To operate the subscription purchase page. | Persistent |
| Necessary | paddlejs_checkout_variant | Paddle | To operate the subscription purchase page. | 3 months |
| Necessary | mf_[session] | Mouseflow | A cookie for identifying the browser session. | Session |
| Necessary | mf_user | Mouseflow | A cookie for checking if the user is new or returning. | Persistent |
- Ways to Block Third Party Cookies
You can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to the usage of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
In addition to the browser plug-in, you can also opt out from being tracked by Google Analytics on this website in the future by clicking on this link. By doing so, an opt-out cookie will be placed on your device. You must click on the link again to delete your cookies.
- Refusal to use cookies on this site?
Additional information about cookies, including information about which cookies were installed on your computer, is also available at https://aboutcookies.org/.
- Cookies, a requirement in the past
If we use deactivation, we can use the information collected before the deactivation function was installed. However, we will not use cookies in order to collect information in the future.