Cookie Policy

A cookie is a piece of information that most websites set on devices’ browsers to remember something about their visitors at a later date.

There are two main types of cookies: Session Cookies and Persistent Cookies. A Session Cookie disappears after you close your browser. A Persistent Cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the website. We may use both types of cookies.

The cookies on our website are either set by us or by third-party partners and fall into the following categories:

Cookie name	Description	Duration
GCLB	Used to ensure website stability	Session
PHPSESSID	Used to remember your settings between pages.	Session

Performance

We want to ensure we provide a good experience on Top10VPN. These cookies allow us to monitor how visitors use our website. This information provides us with anonymous statistics on how many people visit the website, where they have come from and the pages they visit so that we can continue to develop and improve the website and our services.

Third Party	Description
Google Analytics	Collects statistical information about how you use the site so that we can improve the site https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Hotjar	Helps monitor website use so that we can improve the site https://docs.hotjar.com/docs/hotjar-cookies

Functionality

These cookies allow you to share content from the Top10VPN website on popular social media platforms.

Third Party	Description
Facebook	Social media integration https://facebook.com/policy.php
Twitter	Social media integration https://dev.twitter.com/web/overview/privacy

Advertising

Some of these cookies allow us to track the performance of our online advertising campaigns. Others allow third parties to identify what you show an interest in, allowing a more personalised and relevant selection of advertisements to be displayed when you browse the internet.

Third Party	Description
Google AdWords	Tracks performance of advertising campaigns https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ads/
Facebook Ads	Tracks performance of advertising campaigns. https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
Bing	Tracks performance of advertising campaigns. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/default.aspx

Special offers

These cookies allow us to provide you with special offers across the site without becoming annoying by showing you too many pop-up messages.

Third Party	Description
Optinmonster	Provides special offers to specific customers. https://optinmonster.com/docs/how-optin-cookies-and-the-global-cookie-work-in-optinmonster/

Affiliate Links

When you visit one of the VPN providers from our website, it’s likely that you’ll do so via an affiliate link. When you click on these links a cookie is set and, if you sign up for a VPN subscription, the provider is able to identify that you have come from our website and we may earn a commission as a result.

These commissions allow us to continue providing a free service to you.

The Affiliate Marketing Council, part of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) a trade association for online and mobile advertising, has created a website dedicated to helping you understand how affiliate marketing works.

Here is a list of the main cookies set by the third-party services we use to improve your experience on our website and a brief description of what they do.

Cookie	Description	Duration
_ga	Google Analytics cookie used to identify unique users.	2 years
_gat	Google Analytics cookie that limits the number of requests made to their servers.	10 minutes
_omappvs	Optinmonster cookie that helps prevent excessive display of overlay messages	Session
_omappvp	Optinmonster cookie that identifies first-time visitors to the site	10 years, 11 months
_om-success-cookie	Optinmonster cookie that lets us know that you have used a special offer	24 hours

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

Here are some relevant cookie information and opt out options. You can use these resources or other plugins to opt out of cookies through your browser:

Your Online Choices
The Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising
Network Advertising Initiative Consumer Opt-Out