We use cookies and similar technologies (web beacons, local storage, and session storage) to collect information as you navigate our websites, use our services or interact with emails we send you. These technologies help us provide you with a better experience and to enable us to operate and support our services.

Cookies are small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. We use these to distinguish you from other visitors to our website, to enable you to move around our website and use their features, to understand how our website is used by visitors.

Web beacons (also known as pixel tags/pixels) are small images or text (usually invisible) on a web page or an email. We use these to collect information such as your IP address, the time and date when content was viewed, the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the page where the web beacon is located, and details about the browser and device used.

Local storage allows us to store data on your computer or mobile device indefinitely until you manually delete it or your browser clears it through settings or storage limits. We use data from local storage to manage user preferences or settings, login credentials (often in a hashed or encrypted form), user-specific configurations for a personalized experience, user-generated form data, and analytics and performance data.

Session storage is used to store data only for the duration of the session and they expire when the session ends. We use these to manage temporary data needed within the same session, such as temporary session identifiers, data necessary to maintain the state of a user's interaction within a single session (such as form inputs or navigation history), and information related to session-specific features or actions.

Cookies, web beacons, local storage and session storage are used across the following categories:

Strictly necessary: These are required for the operation of our website and they are always enabled because our website will not work properly without them. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to interact with our platform, access wallets, bridges, block explorers, dashboards, and analytics, interact with developer resources, SDKs, transaction tools, navigate through education resources, and utilize any related services, sales, marketing or events across our websites including irys.xyz and related sites.

Analytical or performance: These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that visitors to our website are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality: These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

Targeting: These record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

The following are the most commonly used cookies on our website:

Name: _ga
Category: Analytics/Performance
Controller: Google
Purpose: To distinguish one visitor from another.
Duration: 2 years

Name: _gat_gtgag_UA
Category: Analytics/Performance
Controller: Google
Purpose: To store unique user ID for statistics.
Duration: 1 minute

Name: _gid
Category: Analytics/Performance
Controller: Google
Purpose: To store and count pageviews for statistics.
Duration: 24 hours

We work with Google Analytics to distinguish visitors and for site usage statistics. See Google Analytics for more information here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies.

Please note that where our website integrates social media features, any resulting cookies are controlled by those social media platforms, not by us. Therefore, we have no control over these cookies. These social media platforms may have their own cookie policies on their websites which you should carefully review.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. However, if you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please send us an email at compliance@irys.xyz.