Cookie Policy
Hostify (Pty) Ltd (we, our or Hostify) may use cookies and other similar tracking technologies to support the performance and serviceability of our website and related services.
Please read the contents of this policy to appreciate how and why Hostify may use cookies and other tracking technologies and how you manage their use.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files of numbers and letters downloaded to your computer when you visit a website.
Cookies help website visitors to browse a website efficiently and complete many functions.
Types of cookies
First and third-party cookies
First-party cookies are generated by the operator of the website visited by the user.
Third-party cookies are generated by the operators of websites other than those visited by the user.
Session and persistent cookies
Cookies are generally referred to as session or persistent cookies and distinguished by the time they continue to remain active.
Session cookies are temporary and will only be activated when using the Hostify website. They will not stay on your device after you have ended your browser session.
Persistent cookies may remain on your device, following the ending of your browser session, for an explicit period or until dynamically erased.
Why do we use cookies?
Hostify uses cookies to help differentiate website visitors and enables Hostify to enhance your experience by improving our understanding of the website usage.
Cookies enable the Hostify website to remember your activities and preferences (such as language, font size, and other display preferences), meaning you do not need to re-enter them when returning to our website.
Hence, Hostify may use the following cookies at any time:
Strictly necessary cookies are vital for ensuring the Hostify website operates as intended. These cookies enable the assembly of web pages delivered to you, enhance your website navigation, and allow an easy return to previously visited pages.
We may use these cookies to:
- Indicate to us that you have accepted the use of cookies
- Allow Hostify to test alternative designs on our website.
Performance cookies provide Hostify the capability to count the number of site visits and traffic sources. This information provides Hostify with valuable statistics to help improve the performance of the website. Specifically, they allow Hostify to categorise the popularity of pages on our website and understand how visitors navigate the website.
We may use these cookies to:
- Provide statistical evaluation on how the Hostify website is used, for example, the website hosting service that you have shown an interest
- Evaluate the success of our advertising
- Enable Hostify to monitor and improve our website by analysing your usage and activities
- Obtain opinions and feedback on your experience of the Hostify website.
Functional cookies enable Hostify to provide superior functionality and personalisation of our website.
We may use these cookies to:
- Remember any presentational settings you may have applied such as font size, colour, and other such preferences.
- Recall the choices you made when searching for a particular website hosting service and the results
- Allow Hostify to share information with suitable third parties to efficiently deliver our website hosting services.
Marketing cookies are deployed to track the activity of a website user to help particular third-party marketers provide specific advertisements.
We may use these cookies to:
- Adapt your experience of our site by personalised the content
- Provide ads that are built on your interests and appraise their results
- Limit the occurrence of advertisements
- Create a user profile based on interest in Hostify website hosting services.
Tracking technologies
Hostify may use similar tracking technologies to cookies on this website, such as web beacons and tracking pixels, to improve your online experience.
A web beacon or tracking pixel is a snippet of code placed on a website or in an email to track users' actions when they visit a website or send emails.
Links to third-party websites
The Hostify website may include hyperlinks for your convenience. If you click on a hyperlink, you will be sent to a third-party website that may be using cookies.
Please note that Hostify has no control over how third parties use or set their cookies, so we recommend that you check specific third-party websites to understand how they use cookies and how to control their use.
Management of cookies
To help you manage and control cookies, we have provided hyperlinks to some of the most commonly used web browsers.
- Microsoft Edge cookies information
- Internet Explorer cookies information
- Chrome cookies information
- Firefox cookies information
- Safari cookies information
- Opera cookies information
To find more information on the use of cookies and how to manage them, please visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
If you choose to block or disable the cookies that Hostify uses on this website, this may change its operation, which could cause some functions of our website not to run as intended. Hostify recommends that you accept the cookies used on our website.
Changes to this policy
Hostify may make revisions to this policy if there are changes to the cookies we use for legal, regulatory, or other business reasons.
Please review this cookie policy regularly to remain up to date with how we use cookies.
How to contact us
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, you can send an email to hello@hostify.co.za.
