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 more efficiently and provide information to the website owners. Cookies enhance user experience by remembering your preferences and enabling certain website features.
For instance, cookies might remember your login details for a website, so you don't have to enter them every time you visit, or they might track which pages you visit on a site to help the site owner understand how people use the site.
2. How We Use Cookies
At Hypotmelog, we use cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons for our website to function. Other cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance their experience on our site.
We use the following types of cookies:
2.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you've been on the internet. We use strictly necessary cookies to:
- Remember which pages you've visited within a single session
- Identify you as being logged in to our website
- Ensure that information you enter in a form is saved and processed securely
You cannot opt out of strictly necessary cookies as the website cannot function properly without them.
2.2 Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don't collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. We use performance cookies to:
- Analyze how visitors use our website
- Monitor website performance
- Improve website functionality
2.3 Functionality Cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. We use functionality cookies to:
- Remember settings you've applied, such as language or text size
- Remember if we've already asked you a question, such as whether you want to fill in a survey
- Show you when you're logged in to the website
2.4 Targeting Cookies
These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are 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 an advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator's permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. We use targeting cookies to:
- Connect with social networks, who may use information about your visit to target advertising to you elsewhere
- Provide advertising networks with information about your visit so that they can present you with advertisements in which you may be interested
- Deliver content and marketing communications tailored to your interests based on information from your visit
3. Third-Party Cookies
In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
- This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
- Third-party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.
- We use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, social media sites including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
4. 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 and some services and functionalities may not work.
You can set your cookie preferences when you first visit our website using our cookie consent banner. You can also change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the "Cookie Settings" link in the footer of our website.
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
5. Cookies We Use
Here is a list of the main cookies we use and what we use them for:
Cookie Name |
Type |
Duration |
Purpose |
sessionID |
Strictly Necessary |
Session |
Used to maintain your session on the website |
cookieConsent |
Strictly Necessary |
1 year |
Stores your cookie consent preferences |
_ga |
Performance |
2 years |
Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users |
_gid |
Performance |
24 hours |
Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users |
_gat |
Performance |
1 minute |
Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate |
language |
Functionality |
1 year |
Remembers your language preference |
theme |
Functionality |
1 year |
Remembers your theme preference (light/dark) |
fbp |
Targeting |
3 months |
Used by Facebook to track visitors across websites |
_gcl_au |
Targeting |
3 months |
Used by Google AdSense to experiment with advertisement efficiency |
6. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page.
You are advised to review this Cookie Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Cookie Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Cookie Policy, please contact us:
Hypotmelog Pte. Ltd.
11 Kallang Avenue
#08-20 The Gravity Building
Singapore 339508
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +65 6287 5438