Cookies Policy
Cookies Policy
We (hereinafter - "WhiteBIT", "We") use cookies on this website https://whitebit.uk (the 'website'). This Cookies Policy should be read in conjunction with our User Agreement (https://whitebit.uk/terms) and Privacy Policy (https://whitebit.uk/terms/privacy-policy).
This Cookies Policy is primarily governed by:
- The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (“PECR”), as amended and in force in the United Kingdom;
- The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018, insofar as cookies involve the processing of Personal Data.
The EU ePrivacy Directive and EU GDPR are retained and applied as best-practice standards where relevant, particularly for users located in the European Economic Area (EEA).
This Cookie Policy explains the purpose, manner, types, extent of, and legal basis for using cookies on the Website; and the rights of users to manage and control the use of cookies, while using the Website.
What are Cookies?
"Cookies" are data files, containing a small amount of information, that your device (PC, smartphone, tablet, laptop, etc) downloads when you visit websites, usually through the browser. Software on your device (for example a web browser) can store and send back cookies to the websites the next time you visit them, to ensure that while revisiting websites or visiting websites containing the same cookies, your device will be already recognized.
Cookies will be further referred to as "cookies".
Cookies may be persistent - not deleted after the browser is closed; and remain until a predetermined expiration date and session - deleted after the browser is closed.
The length of time a cookie will stay on your browsing device depends on whether it is a persistent or session cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you close your browser. Persistent cookies are set to automatically expire after a defined duration (for example, a few days, weeks, or months).
Cookies also may be "first party", i.e. set directly by the website the user is visiting, and "third party", which are incorporated within the visited website from the other websites (for example, social media plugins or advertising).
What are Cookies used for?
Cookies are used to collect data from your device for the purposes of security and improvement of the browsing experience.
Cookies are especially necessary for your navigation as technical cookies. Some operations cannot be performed without the use of cookies, as they serve to keep your use of the Website secure, as well as to prevent and/or detect fraudulent, or other illegal activity. This includes such information about your device and browser, as, for example, information about your device type, used browser, operating system, and IP address. Please be aware, that due to the mentioned security reasons, you may not be able to initiate and/or execute particular activities, and/or use particular functionalities on the Website unless such strictly required cookies (as described below) are installed on your device and information received by the website corresponds with WhiteBIT security policies.
Additionally, cookies are used to improve your user experience, for example, to remember preferences, ensure relevance of provided content, and features, enhance website navigation, etc.
We use the cookies on our website for the following purposes:
- To ensure user security and privacy while visiting our site and using its functionality;
- To remember user preferences and enhance the user's browsing experience;
- Other purposes that are necessary for providing our services, as described below.
The cookies on the website may be from any of the following categories:
- Strictly Necessary cookies - these are used for technical reasons and are necessary to enable the website to operate efficiently so that you can navigate the website with ease and use specific features. The data collected by strictly necessary cookies is essential to verify your identity and maintain security, privacy, and sufficient operation of the website. If these cookies are blocked or disabled, some of the website functionality may not operate effectively and not be available due to security reasons;
- Functionality cookies - these are used to improve the functionality of the website and make it easier to use. They help us to identify you as a repeat user of the website and help us remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region);
- Analytical (performance) cookies - these cookies help us to debug any errors. They are used to inform us how the website is used, if any issues and/or errors occurred within the visit, to fix inefficiencies, if any, and to improve your user experience further.
- Targeting cookies - these are used to help us make communication with you more relevant to your interests. In particular, they are used to record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make the Website and the advertising displayed on it (if any) more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
The categories below explain the types of cookies and what they do.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary for the provision of the Website and Services explicitly requested by the user, including security, fraud prevention, authentication, and load balancing.
In accordance with PECR, these cookies do not require user consent and cannot be disabled via our cookie management tool.
Please be aware that these cookies are not used for any other, including marketing, purposes.
| Name | Purpose | Duration | Provider and host |
|---|---|---|---|
| user | This cookie is written to save user session | 1 year | .whitebit.uk, 1st Party |
| __cf_bm | This cookie is part of Cloudflare’s Bot Management service and helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. | 30 minutes | .whitebit.uk, 1st Party |
| cf_clearance | Clearance Cookie stores the proof of challenge passed. It is used to no longer issue a challenge if present. It is required to reach an origin server. | 1 year | .whitebit.uk, 1st Party |
| _cflb | This cookie is used by Cloudflare for load balancing. | 1 day | .whitebit.uk, 1st Party |
| XSRF-TOKEN | This cookie is written to help with site security in preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. | 1 year 1 month | .whitebit.uk, 1st Party |
| Backend cookies (userVerificationDevice, userDevice ex.) | Cookies that set the backend through HTTP | 3 days | .whitebit.uk, 1st Party |
Functional Cookies
These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization and remember the choices you made. For example, remembering which pages you visited and personalizing your experience for the features of the website, that can be customized. Although these cookies do not affect the possibility of using the core functionality of the website, however without them, we are not able to remember the choices you earlier made, as well as to personalize your experience of using the Website.
| Name | Purpose | Duration | Provider and host |
|---|---|---|---|
| wbLang | This cookie is used to save user language | 1 year | .whitebit.uk, 1st Party |
| isCloseTopper | This cookie is used to ensure 2Fa top notification state (on/off) | Session | .whitebit.uk, 1st Party |
| wbAppTheme | This cookie is used to support color mode feature in mobile application | Session | .whitebit.uk, 1st Party |
| colorMode | This cookie is used to support color mode feature | Session | .whitebit.uk, 1st Party |
| easter | This cookie is used to easter popup image | 1 year | .whitebit.uk, 1st Party |
| HSID | This cookie contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and most recent sign-in time. | 2 years | .google.xxx, 3rd party |
| CONSENT | This cookie is used by Google to store a user’s state regarding their cookie choices. | 2 years | .google.xxx, 3rd party |
| AEC | This cookie is used by Google to ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. | 6 month | .google.xxx, 3rd party |
| SIDCC | This cookie is used by Google to provide the identification of trusted web traffic. | 1 year | .google.xxx, 3rd party |
| SID | This cookie contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and most recent sign-in time. | 2 years | .google.xxx, 3rd party |
| referralCode | This cookie is used to save a referral code for referral program (registration). | 90 days | .whitebit.uk, 1st Party |
| miningPoolReferralCode | This cookie is used to save referral code for mining pool referral program. | 7 days | .whitebit.uk, 1st Party |
| sf_affiliate_sent | This cookie is used to save new affiliator's form submitting state. | 90 days | .whitebit.uk, 1st Party |
| affiliateCode | This cookie is used to save an affiliate code for affiliate program (registration). | 7 days | .whitebit.uk, 1st Party |
| wbSidebarExpanded | This cookie is used to save sidebar settings | 1 year | .whitebit.uk, 1st Party |
Analytical (Performance) Cookies
These cookies are used to collect information anonymously about the Website's use, such as the pages visited by users, time spent, number of clicks, favorite pages, etc. The anonymized information is used to assess the performance of the website, and the activity of the websites and to prepare navigation plans of the users, edit the website, and fix bugs or errors, if any. This data is not used to target you with advertisements, or any other marketing activities.
| Name | Purpose | Duration | Provider and host |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request on a site and used to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data for the site's analytics reports. By default, it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customizable by website owners. | 1 year 1 month | .whitebit.uk, 3rd Party |
| _gid | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to store and count page views. | 1 day | .whitebit.uk, 3rd Party |
| _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist the session state. | 1 year | .whitebit.uk, 3rd Party |
| Ph_phc_xxxxxxxxxx (posthog) | Collects information about how visitors use our sites | 1 day | .whitebit.uk, 3rd Party |
| utm_campaign | The cookie is used to identify the name of a specific product promotion or strategic campaign and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. | 1 month | .whitebit.uk, 1st Party |
| utm_medium | The cookie is used to identify the type of traffic and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. | 1 month | .whitebit.uk, 1st Party |
| utm_source | The cookie is used to identify the source of the traffic and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. | 1 month | .whitebit.uk, 1st Party |
Targeting Cookies
These cookies are used to deliver you personalized services, advertisements, messages, etc. We will use this information to make the Website and the advertising displayed on it (if any) more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. Please be aware that rejecting these cookies will not deprive us of performing our general marketing and advertising activities, however, they could be not relevant to your individual interests and preferences.
Targeting and advertising cookies are non-essential cookies and are set only with your explicit consent.
Refusing Targeting cookies will not affect access to the Website or its core functionality.
| Name | Purpose | Duration | Provider and host |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Secure-1PSIDCC | This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant and personalized Google advertising. | 1 year | .google.xxx, 3rd Party |
| __Secure-1PAPISID | This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalized Google advertising. | 2 years | .google.xxx, 3rd Party |
| SAPISID | This cookie is used by Google to display personalized advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. | 2 years | .google.xxx, 3rd Party |
| __Secure-3PSID | This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant and personalized Google advertising. | 2 years | .google.xxx, 3rd Party |
| NID | This cookie is used to show Google Ads in Google services for signed-out users. | 6 months | .google.xxx, 3rd Party |
| APISID | This cookie is used by Google to display personalized advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. | 2 years | .google.xxx, 3rd Party |
| __Secure-3PAPISID | This cookie is used by Google to store a user’s state regarding their cookie choices. | 2 years | .google.xxx, 3rd Party |
| __Secure-3PSIDCC | This cookie is used by Google to build a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. | 1 year | .google.xxx, 3rd Party |
| __Secure-1PSID | This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant and personalized Google advertising. | 2 years | .google.xxx, 3rd Party |
| SOCS | This cookie is used by Google to store a user’s state regarding their cookie choices. | 13 months | .google.xxx, 3rd Party |
| IDE | This cookie is set by DoubleClick and carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | 1 month | .doubleclick.net, 3rd Party |
| test_cookie | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies. | 15 min | .doubleclick.net, 3rd Party |
| _fbp | Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third-party advertisers | 3 months | .whitebit.uk, 1st Party |
| personalization_id | This cookie is used to track user marketing activities from X (Twitter.com) for signed-out users. | 1-year 1-month | .twitter.com, 3rd Party |
| guest_id | This cookie is set by X (Twitter.com) to identify and track the website visitor. | 1-year 1-month | .twitter.com, 3rd Party |
| guest_id_ads | This cookie is set by X (Twitter.com) to identify and track the website visitor. | 2 years | .twitter.com, 3rd Party |
| guest_id_marketing | This cookie is set by X (Twitter.com) to identify and track the website visitor. | 2 years | .twitter.com, 3rd Party |
| _gcl_au | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services | 3 months | .whitebit.uk, 3rd Party |
| muc_ads | Collects data on user behavior and interaction to optimize the website and make advertisements on the website more relevant. | 1 year | .t.co, 3rd Party |
Setting your cookies preferences
You can choose to permit us to install cookies in your device and collect the mentioned information, or to reject all or any of the Cookies (apart from strictly necessary) using the Cookies preferences page.
Through this page, you can also control, manage, and change your preferences at any time. If you initially consented to use any category of non-essential cookies, but further changed your preferences and disabled us from using any of them, we will update the system as soon as reasonably possible in order to stop using them. However, data collected within the period of the validity of your consent will be deemed as legally collected and used subject to the conditions of our Privacy Policy.
It is also possible to disable, delete or block cookies by configuring the browser settings.
Please be aware that rejection of cookies will not preclude you from using the Website (apart from strictly necessary cookies). However, disabling or limiting cookies may prevent our website from personalizing your experience. Additionally, it may prevent you from saving customized settings, e.g. login information.
You may withdraw or change your cookie consent at any time and such withdrawal will take effect without undue delay.
Cookie Preferences and Controls
When you first visit our Website, you are presented with a cookie notice that allows you to:
- accept all cookies;
- reject all non-essential cookies; or
- manage your preferences by category.
There are no pre-ticked boxes for non-essential cookies, and consent is not implied by continued browsing.
Where cookies result in the transfer of Personal Data outside the United Kingdom, such transfers are safeguarded using:
- UK adequacy regulations; or
- the UK International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA) or the UK Addendum to EU Standard Contractual Clauses, together with additional technical and organisational measures where required.
Updates to this Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy is effective as of the date of publishing on this Website and will remain in effect except concerning any changes in its provisions in the future, that come into force and will be applied immediately after they are published on the Website.
We may update and/or change the terms of this Cookie Policy, and We will inform you about such changes via Cookies preferences page while asking to decide if you accept and/or reject such changes.
Contact information
If you have any questions or concerns about this Cookie Policy, as well as any other relevant questions, please, contact us at support@whitebit.uk.
Where cookies involve the processing of Personal Data, the competent supervisory authority in the United Kingdom is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). You have the right to raise concerns with the ICO if you believe cookies are being used in breach of UK legislation.