Cookie Policy

First-party cookies

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

Third-party services

Performance

We want to ensure we provide a good experience on WhatMattress. 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 WhatMattress 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
Trustpilot User reviews integration
https://legal.trustpilot.com/for-everyone/cookie-policy

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 personalized 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 mattress 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 purchase a mattress or other bedding product, 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.

Third-party cookies

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 anonymous visitors. 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

How to control cookies

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

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