Cookie Policy

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, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. They allow a website to recognize a user's device and remember preferences or actions over time.

2. How We Use Cookies

At HYRme, we use cookies for various purposes to enhance your experience on our platform:

• Essential Cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our platform and to use some of its features. For example, they allow you to log in to secure areas of our platform.
• Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our platform to remember choices you make when you use it, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience.
• Analytics and Performance Cookies: These cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our platform and how users use it. The gathered information does not identify any individual visitor. It includes the number of visitors, the websites that referred them, the pages visited, and other similar information.

3. Third-Party Cookies

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. For example:

• Stripe: We use Stripe for payment processing. Stripe sets cookies to ensure secure and efficient payment transactions. These cookies are essential for processing your payments securely.
• Cookie Consent: We use a cookie consent tool to remember your cookie preferences and ensure we comply with legal obligations regarding cookie usage.

4. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent banner when you first visit our site.

Additionally, you can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.

5. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

6. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at support@hyrme.co.uk.