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Cookies Notice
Defiant uses cookies (small, often encrypted, text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device) and similar technologies (“Cookies”) to provide the Services and help collect data. This Cookies Notice explains how we use Cookies to collect information about the way you use our Sites and Services, and how you can control them.
You can always review and adjust your Cookie Settings or your individual browser’s settings.
How We Use Cookies
We use Cookies to track how you use our Sites and Services by providing usage statistics. Cookies are also used to deliver Company information (including updates) and allow product authentication to you based upon your browsing history and previous visits to the Sites. Information supplied to us using cookies helps us to provide a better online experience to our visitors and users and send marketing communications to them, as the case may be. Information supplied to us upon launching of the Services will enable Defiant to manage your permissions, license, license type, and improve the functionality of the Sites or Services.
While this information on its own may not constitute your “personal information”, we may combine the information we collect via Cookies with personal information that we have collected from you to learn more about how you use our Sites and Services to improve them.
Types of Cookies
We use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your device until you delete them). To make it easier for you to understand why we need them, the Cookies we use on our Sites and Services can be grouped into the following categories:
- Strictly Necessary: These Cookies are necessary for the Sites and Services to work properly. They include any essential authentication and authorization cookies for the Services.
- Functional Cookies: These Cookies allow us to remember choices you make, such as your username, language, or region. This helps provide a more personalized and consistent experience by tailoring the Services to your preferences. For example, we can remember your preferred settings or login details, so you don’t have to re-enter them each time you visit. This includes the cookie used to save your cookie preferences.
- Performance/Analytical: These Cookies allow us to collect certain information about how you navigate the Sites or utilize the Services running on your device. They help us understand which areas you use and what we can do to improve them.
- Targeting/Advertising: These Cookies are used to deliver relevant information related to the Services to an identified machine or other device (not a named or otherwise identifiable person) which has previously been used to visit our Sites. Some of these types of Cookies on our Sites are operated by service providers with our permission and are used to identify advertising sources that are effectively driving customers to our Sites.
Here is a representative list of the cookies we use.
Necessary Cookies
| Name and Website | Provided By | Persistent or Session | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| aws-waf-token wordfence.com |
Amazon Web Services | Persistent: 4 days | Used to prevent abuse of our services. |
| PHPSESSID wordfence.com |
WordPress | Session: Expires at end of session | Used by PHP to preserve data across subsequent accesses by the same user. |
| wfcart wordfence.com |
Wordfence | Persistent: 14 yr, 10 mo | Used to store the state of any items added to the cart. |
| wfCBLBypass wordfence.com defiant.com |
Wordfence plugin | Persistent: 1 year | Used when a hidden URL defined by the site admin is visited, this cookie is set to verify the user can access the site from a country restricted through country blocking. This is only set if “Country blocking” is enabled, and the site owner set a path under the “Bypass Cookie option”. |
| wfcentral-token wordfence.com |
Wordfence | Persistent: 1 Day | Used for tracking authentication. |
| wfwaf-authcookie-* wordfence.com defiant.com |
Wordfence plugin | Persistent: 12 hours, and if you’re still logged into WP while it has expired a new one is set for 12 hours on the next pageview | Used to track users’ roles. |
| wf_loginalerted_(hash) wordfence.com defiant.com |
Wordfence plugin | Persistent: 1 year | Used to notify the Wordfence admin when an administrator logs in from a new device or location. This cookie is only set when the administrator enables “Only alert me when that administrator signs in from a new device” or “Only alert me when that user signs in from a new device” |
| wf-plugin-link-token wordfence.com |
Wordfence | Persistent: 24 hours | Used for tracking a free license registration initiated from the user’s Wordfence plugin |
| wordfence_central_api_session wordfence.com |
Wordfence | Session: Expires at end of session | PHP session for the Wordfence Central application |
| wordpress_logged_in_[hash] wordfence.com defiant.com |
WordPress | Persistent: 2 days standard, if “Remember me is clicked”: 14 days. | Used for tracking logged in sessions. |
| wordpress_test_cookie wordfence.com defiant.com |
WordPress | Session: Expires at end of session | Used to test if cookies can be set. |
| wp_lang wordfence.com defiant.com |
WordPress | Session: Expires at end of session | Used to store language settings. |
| wp-settings-[user] wordfence.com defiant.com |
WordPress | Persistent: 1 year | Used to preserve user’s wp-admin settings. |
| wp-settings-time-[user] wordfence.com defiant.com |
WordPress | Persistent: 1 year | Time at which wp-settings-{user} was set |
| XSRF-TOKEN wordfence.com defiant.com |
Wordfence | Persistent: 120 minutes | Used to provide the current XSRF token to the JavaScript environment for AJAX calls. |
| _x_w support.wordfence.com |
Freshdesk | Session: Expires at end of session | Used in accessing customer support activity. |
| * multiple cookies pay.google.com |
Google Pay | Session and Persistent: up to 13 months | Google Pay uses multiple cookies for the purpose of executing and processing payment transactions. |
| * multiple cookies paypal.com braintreepayments.com |
PayPal, Inc. | Session and Persistent: up to 13 months | PayPal uses multiple cookies for the purpose of executing and processing payment transactions. |
| wordfence_cookie_consent wordfence.com |
Wordfence | Persistent: 1 year | Used to store user preferences for nonessential cookies |
Functional
| Name and Website | Provided By | Persistent or Session | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| affiliate_code wordfence.com |
Wordfence | Persistent: 30 days | Used for tracking affiliate commissions from purchases. |
| referralResearcher wordfence.com |
Wordfence | Persistent: 7 days | Used when a researcher referral code is used |
| sponsorCode wordfence.com |
Wordfence | Persistent: 24 hours | Used when a sponsor referral code is used |
Performance/Analytical
| Name and Website | Provided By | Persistent or Session | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga wordfence.com defiant.com |
Google Analytics | Persistent: 2 years | Used by Google Analytics to register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| _gcl_au wordfence.com |
Google Ads | Persistent: 90 days | Used by Google Ads to track and measure the performance of advertising campaigns. |
| _gid wordfence.com defiant.com |
Google Analytics | Persistent: 1 Day | Used by Google Analytics to register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
Marketing and Targeting
| Name and Website | Provided By | Persistent or Session | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| _hstc wordfence.com defiant.com |
HubSpot Marketing | Persistent: 13 months | The main cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, utk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). |
| Hubspotutk wordfence.com defiant.com |
HubSpot Marketing | Persistent: 13 months | This cookie keeps track of a visitor’s identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. It contains an opaque GUID to represent the current visitor. |
| __hssc wordfence.com defiant.com |
HubSpot Marketing | Persistent: 30 minutes. | This cookie keeps track of sessions. This is used to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It contains the domain, viewCount (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp. |
| __hssrc wordfence.com defiant.com |
HubSpot Marketing | Session: Expires at the end of the session. | Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. If this cookie does not exist when HubSpot manages cookies, it is considered a new session. It contains the value “1” when present. |
Cookies Set by Third Party Sites
To enhance our content and to deliver a better online experience for our users, we sometimes embed images and videos from other websites on the Sites. We currently use, and may in future use content from Sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube and X. You may be presented with Cookies from these third-party websites. Please note that we do not control these Cookies. The privacy practices of these third parties will be governed by the parties’ own privacy statements or policies. We are not responsible for the security or privacy of any information collected by these third parties, using cookies or other means. You should consult and review the relevant third-party privacy statement or policy for information on how these cookies are used and how you can control them.
We also use Google, a third-party analytics provider, to collect information about Services usage and the users of the Services, including demographic and interest-level information. Google uses cookies in order to collect demographic and interest-level information and usage information from users that visit the Services, including information about the pages where users enter and exit the Services and what pages users view on the Services, time spent, browser, operating system, and IP address. Cookies allow Google to recognize a user when a user visits the Services and when the user visits other websites. Google uses the information it collects from the Services and other websites to share with us and other website operators’ information about users including age range, gender, geographic regions, general interests, and details about devices used to visit websites and purchase items. We do not link information we receive from Google with any of your personally identifiable information. For more information regarding Google’s use of cookies, and collection and use of information, see the Google Privacy Policy (available at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en). If you would like to opt out of Google Analytics tracking, please visit the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on (available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).
Social Sharing
We also embed social sharing icons throughout our Sites. These sharing options are designed to enable users to easily share content from our Sites with their friends using a variety of different social networks. If you choose to connect using a social networking or similar service, we may receive and store authentication information from that service to enable you to log in and other information that you may choose to share when you connect with these services. These services may collect information such as the web pages you visited and IP addresses, and may set cookies to enable features to function properly. We are not responsible for the security or privacy of any information collected by these third parties. You should review the privacy statements or policies applicable to the third-party services you connect to, use, or access. If you do not want personal information about you shared with your social media account provider or other users of the social media service, please do not connect your social media account with your account for the Services and do not participate in social sharing on the Services.
Other Similar Technologies
Defiant web pages may use other technologies such as web beacons to help deliver cookies on our Sites and count users who have visited those Sites. We also may include web beacons in our promotional email messages or newsletters to determine whether you open and act on them as well as for statistical purposes.
In addition to standard cookies and web beacons, our services can also use other similar technologies to store and read data files on your computer. This is typically done to maintain your preferences or to improve speed and performance by storing certain files locally.
Retargeting and Remarketing
Defiant may use a third-party vendor retargeting tracking cookies, pixels, and other technologies to collect data about your activities that does not personally or directly identify you when you visit our website, the website of entities for which we serve advertisements (our “Advertisers”), or the websites and online services where we display advertisements (“Publishers”). This information may include the content you view, the date and time that you view this content, the products you purchase, or your location information associated with your IP address. We use the information we collect to serve you more relevant advertisements (referred to as “Retargeting”). We collect information about where you saw the ads we serve you and what ads you clicked on to measure the success of our advertising campaigns.
How to Control and Delete Cookies
Cookies can be controlled, blocked or restricted through your web browser settings or clicking Cookie Settings. Information on how to do this can be found within the Help section of your browser. All Cookies are browser specific. Therefore, if you use multiple browsers or devices to access websites, you will need to manage your cookie preferences across these environments.
If you are using a mobile device to access the Sites, you will need to refer to your instruction manual or other help/settings resource to find out how you can control cookies on your device.
Please note: If you restrict, disable or block any or all Cookies from your web browser or mobile or other device, the Sites may not operate properly, and you may not have access to the Services available through the Sites. Defiant shall not be liable for any impossibility to use the Sites and Services or degraded functioning thereof, where such are caused by your settings and choices regarding cookies.
If you have disabled one or more cookies, we may still use information collected from cookies prior to your disabled preference being set, however, we will stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information.
To learn more about cookies and web beacons, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.