Cookie Policy

What are Cookies?

Whenever a user visits a website, the site downloads a small packet of information to the device or computer, called cookies. Websites use various cookies, including necessary, performance, social media or advertising.

Cookies allow websites to store visitor preferences and actions, making the consumer experience better. Users do not need to enter their information on a website on each visit as the cookies remember whether they are a first time visitor to the site or use the site frequently. When the website exchanges a cookie with the user, the server reads the user ID and serves related information.

Do Leaps & Bounds use Cookies?

Like other websites ours use cookies to manage user browsing preferences. The purpose of these cookies can range from creating and order to tracking user activity for analytics data.

We use various cookies to determine performance, advertising, social media, content or necessary cookies to collect general information. The types of cookies used are as follows:

User-centric or necessary cookies: are used to track the visitors behaviour on the website to ensure that they can use the features and access secure areas. For example, so that the customer doesn’t have to fill in the same information again when moving from page to page, or when they revisit the website.

Functional cookies: are used to remember the users choices and the information they provide, such as language and/or region preferences. Functional cookies are used for the duration of the session to allow users to authenticate themselves on subsequent visits to the website or gain them access to authorised content across website pages.

Functional cookies come in various subtypes:

Security cookies: detect unauthorised access during a limited session. They increase the security of a webpage and detect suspicious activity such as multiple failed logins.
Authentication cookies: allow users to set themselves as authentic during the visit to the website. These cookies help users gain access to authorised content on the different pages on the site.
Multimedia cookies: remain in the browser for a short period of time to play audio or video. These cookies also improve the quality of images and the speed which they load.
User interfaces: these are persistent cookies which stores the users preferences.
Load-balancing cookies: identify the server pool which allows a load balancer to redirect users to appropriate pages. These cookies are in action until the session on the website ends.

Analytics cookies: these cookies are used to improve the user experience and collect information about how and when a user interacts with our website. The analytics cookies used are:

First-party analytics cookies: these cookies monitor how many unique visitors we have visit our website. This date is used to make improvements to our website to enhance users browsing experience.
Third-part analytics cookies: used to help measure how users interact with our website. These cookies remember user activity across our website.

Duration of cookies

The time a cookie stays on the device depends on the session nature of the persistence of the cookie. Session cookies expire as soon as the session on our website ends. Persistence cookies last until they are deleted or expire. The expiration of persistence cookies vary between 30 minutes to 2 years from the date of download.

Cookie consent

Consent for cookies is a legal requirement. Data privacy laws such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) state companies need to obtain explicit consent from users before storing any information on them and their activities on their website.

Requirements for cookie consent

Requirements for cookie compliance are as follows:

Provide cookie consent choices which allow the user to explicitly accept or decline cookies.
Clearly state how and why users should provide their consent. Also detail what data is collected and how it is used.
Do not use cookies before consent is given.
Cookies the user does not consent to must be blocked.
Allow users to give consent separately for each cookie category.
Document proof of consent in case of audit or legal action.
Users mist have the option to withdraw their consent at any time.
The process of revoking consent must be as easy as possible.