Platinum Weekly Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies...?

Cookies don't harm your computer. Platinum Weekly don't store personally identifiable information such as credit card details in cookies we create.

For best user experience, it is recommended that you allow cookies for our website in order to get the most out of it. If you prefer to keep the cookies turned off for whatever reason, you will still be able to use our website. However, certain essential functions and capabilities such as adding listings, may not be available in full. This is why we do recommend that you turn on the cookies.

Cookies can be defined as text files that browsers create on your computer to uniquely identify you or store certain information about you. Cookies are stored as text files on your computer. Various websites use cookies for a number of purposes. We also use cookies to store settings and options you chose and to positively identify you when you come back.

You can learn more about cookies in the Wikipedia article.

The Cookies the Platinum Weekly Website Creates

  • PHPSESSID: Used track keep track of Login Sessions for Platinum Weekly staff when they update the website.
  • _ga: Google Universal Analytics - This cookie is used to distinguishes unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier.
  • _gat: Google Universal Analytics - This cookie is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes.
  • CPSESSION - Control Panel sessions tracking for updates and changes to the website by Platinum Weekly Staff.
  • TIMEZONE - Sets the local time to Johannesburg/Africa.

Standard Third-Party Cookies

Like other online companies, the Platinum Weekly uses third-party cookies to provide you with the features related to external service — like the Facebook Group Widget & Google Analytics to help us track what content our community loves to read, helping you explore the website better and easier.

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