Cookies policy

A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information.

Why do we need to use cookies?

Without a cookie, every time you open a new web page the server where that page is stored would treat you like a completely new visitor. This could get pretty annoying for you as a user and would make our sites completely unusable. A cookie works like a key to this effect, it helps us to give you a swift user experience, remembers the choices you make around your account settings, preferences and ensures we don’t display the same messages to you repeatedly.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These are cookies that are necessary for the Platform to function as well as to operate our business. These are used to let you login, stay logged in, measure our traffic (anonymously) and to ensure site security. Without this type of technology, our Services won't work properly or we won't be able to provide certain features and functionalities.

cookie_policy_agreement	This shows that the user accepted our cookie policy and we don’t need to ask them again to review it.
dont-track	If this cookie is set, we are anonymizing the actions from the user - any events related to the user will be stored with a “0” in our tracking, rather than the user ID.
dmsg	This cookie helps our service to remember that a user dismissed a site notification or message
cfo	This shows that the user found our site organically. It enables us to show this organic user how to find the content they actually came looking for.
f_v	This cookie shows us that a user is a first time visitor.
isy	If a user dismisses a survey, this cookie helps our service to remember that they dismissed it (so they don’t keep seeing it).
bpn_device_subscribed browser_push_permission_requested fbpns guest_push_enabled guest_user_visit	These cookies are used to know if and how we should be sending browser push notifications to the user. They allow us to know the number of times a guest user requested a new page, which is used for showing the browser push notification modal. They indicate if the user recently subscribed to browser notifications and if we already served the browser push notification opt-in to the user so that we don’t need to keep showing it. They are also used to store info if we should enable/disable guest user’s browser push notifications.
lcl	This cookie allows us to track click outs correctly
mascot mascot_reserved mascot_check	These cookies are used to run our Flamedeer game. They allow us to ensure that when a user catches a flamedeer, the mascot or flamedeer that was caught is kept, and that the users would be able to claim the card should they need to log in first. They also allow us to know whether or not the flamedeer is shown when a user logs in, should they decide to opt-out from the game.
pepper	This cookie is used for redirection so you land on the correct Pepper local site (and so your preference is saved)
pepper_session	This is a session cookie, used to remember short term information, such as the fact that a user is logged in (so they aren’t asked for login credentials on every page load)
remember_<some hexadecimal digits>	The "remember me" cookie helps users to keep logged into our site, so they’re still logged in next time they visit - this is useful if they’re on a trusted device. Secondly
xsrf_t	This cookie allows us to prevent cross-site request forgery attacks.
DI	This delayed intent cookie stores the actions users take when logged out, so we can apply them once the users log back in and ensure they land on the intended page
show_voucher	This cookie helps us to display our voucher content (which is fetched from a partner provider)
ur_mod	This cookie is used to enforce the login when sending the email to users that were inactive for more than 3 years.
f_c	This cookie helps our service to remember that a user is opted out of functionality cookies
u_l	This cookie allows us to identify if user is logged out for caching purposes on content delivery network services.

Additionally we’re using third party cookies from:

• Google Analytics - Read more about their cookies and their Privacy Policy.
• Cloudflare - Read more about their cookies and their Privacy Policy.
• Facebook Sign-in - Read more about their cookies and their Privacy Policy.

Functionality Cookies

These are cookies that are necessary for the performance of our Services (i.e. to store some information such as your language preferences, to remember your set preferences, etc.).

g_p	If guest users personalise their browsing experience, this cookie ensures we can deliver their preferences.
discussions_widget_selected_option	This cookie stores whether to show recent or popular discussions to logged out users.
hds	This cookie defines the time range which is shown by the hottest deals widget.
hidden_banners	This cookie is used to store which banners the user decided to hide.
hide_discussion_header_widget	This cookie defines whether discussion groups header is shown in the related section.
hide_expired	This cookie remembers user preference; "Hide expired deals" state in the view filter.
hide_homepage_banner	This cookie remembers user preference; whether or not the homepage banner should be shown.
hide_local	This cookie remembers user preference; keeps track of the "Hide local deals" state in the view filter.
hide_merchants_widget	This cookie remembers user preference; whether or not the merchant widget should be shown.
hide_nsfw	This cookie remembers user preference; if user selects to hide “NSFW” content, it ensures a mask is applied to such images.
hide_price_comparison	This cookie remembers user preference; whether or not Price Comparison results should be shown on search page.
hide_recent_discussion_widget	This cookie remembers user preference; whether or not the recent discussion widget should be shown.
location	This cookie remembers user preference; keeps track of the selected location in the view filter settings.
pin_search_filter	This cookie keeps track of the position of the filter widget on event pages.
show_my_tab	This cookie remembers user preference; info about show/hide my tab.
Show_user_tour user_tour_status	These cookies store the visibility of the user tour and when a user takes a welcome tour, they keep track of how far into the tour the user has gone.
sort_by	This cookie remembers user preference; keeps track of the selected "Sort By" option in search filter options.
sufnews optedOutOfNewsletter tg keywords	These cookies track if the user signed up or opted out of the newsletter and if the user decided to hide the widget promoting alerts or one of our social media channels so that we don’t show these widgets again.
time_frame	This cookie remembers user preference; keeps track of the selected "From" option in the search filter options.
view_layout_horizontal	This cookie remembers user preference; keeps track of the selected view option in the view filter settings.
hide_discussions_widget	This cookie remembers user preference; whether or not the discussions widget should be shown.
merchant_search_results	This cookie remembers user preference; whether or not the merchant search widget should be shown.
event_top_merchants	This cookie remembers user preference; whether or not the top merchants in an event widget should be shown.
related_merchants	This cookie remembers user preference; whether or not the related merchants widget should be shown.
related_groups	This cookie remembers user preference; whether or not the related groups widget should be shown.
top_groups	This cookie remembers user preference; whether or not the top groups widget should be shown.
navi	This cookie remembers user preference; whether to show the hottest deals widget on the top or side, with images or without and in a short or long list