Cookies Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit the website www.madoquaventures.com (our site). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

What Are Cookies?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites our site uses cookies, which are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website to improve your experience. Cookies set by Madoqua Ventures (we or us) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than us are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

Why Do We Use Cookies?

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below, but only collect cookies that are absolutely necessary. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use. We use first party and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our site to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the user experience on our site. Third parties serve cookies through our site for advertising, analytics and other purposes. This is described in more detail below. The specific types of first and third party cookies served through our site and the purposes they perform are described below:

• “Strictly necessary” cookies, which have to be set to allow us to deliver the site to you and to provide specific services that you request from us. The services offered by this site that require cookies to function include: account log-in (if and when available) and comments/blog features.
• “Performance” or “Analytics” cookies, which help us to collect information about how visitors use our site and helps us with site analysis and improvements. Performance or analytics cookies will remain on your computer after you close your browser.
• “Functionality” cookies, which allow our site to remember your choices or preferences, such as information on online forms. These cookies allow us to offer you a personalized experience while using the site. They are not used to track your browsing activity on other websites.
• “Targeting” cookies, which are used to deliver advertising more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization. So, basically, these cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising relevant to you and your interests.

What About Other Tracking Technologies, Like Web Beacons?

Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our site or opened an e-mail that we have sent them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users within our site, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our site from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

How Can You Control Cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of our site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

What Cookies Do We Use On Our Site?

The bottom of this Cookie Policy lists the first-party cookies in use.

How Often Will We Update This Cookie Policy?

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

Where Can I Get Further Information?

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us at info@madoquaventures.com

Cookie name	Description	Expires in
i18n_redirected	Used to detect and store the language settings of browsers.	12 months
stripe_mid	Stripe is used to making credit card payments. Stripe_mid is used to remember who you are and to enable the website to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers.	Immediately
G_AUTHUSER_H	The purpose of G_Authuser_H is to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, protect user data from unauthorized parties, as well as remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language.	6 Months
sf-id	Sf-id is a session cookie to record encrypted authentication information for the duration of a specific session.The cookie does not store other confidential user and session information, but instead implements more advanced security methods based on dynamic data and encoded session IDs.	Immediately
G_ENABLED_IDPS	G_ENABLED_IDPS remembers that you have visited a website and helps to improve the content you see. It also enables sharing content via social networks.	6 Months
_gat_gtag_UA_196388200_1	Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property- id>.	1 minute
_gid	Used to distinguish users.	24 hours
_ga	Used to distinguish users.	2 years