Cookies and privacy

Cookies and privacy

At CompareDial, we use cookies to provide you with the best possible experience.

We use cookies across our website. Without cookies, our website may not work as expected, and may even break some webpages.

By continuing to use CompareDial, you agree to our cookie policy. If you do not agree with our cookie policy, you should disable cookies for our domain (comparedial.com) in your browser or exit our website.

Cookies at CompareDial

A cookie is a value that is stored in your web browser. Cookies are commonly used to identify who you are and to resume your previous browsing sessions.

Most cookies have an expiration date, however some may persist indefinitely. A session cookie will only persist until you close your browser, after which it will be deleted.

Cookies can be first party (set by the website you are visiting) or third party (set by an external source).

At CompareDial, we use cookies for functionality, marketing and analytics. We use first party cookies, as well as third party cookies.

Marketing and analytics cookies

  • Google Analytics - we use Google Analytics to track page views on our website. Google Analytics can set cookies to give you a unique identity and to track which actions and events you perform on our website. For more information, please read Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites

  • Google Ads - If you visit our website by clicking a link from a Google product or Google affiliated product, such as Google Search, you may have cookies set from Google Ads. When you click a deal on our website, we can use the data set by Google Ads and our affiliate partners to track when you make a purchase. For more information, please read Cookie information for Google's ad products

  • Bing Ads - If you visit our website by clicking a link from a Microsoft product or Microsoft affiliated product, such as Bing Search, you may have cookies set from Bing Ads. When you click a deal on our website, we can use the data set by Bing Ads and our affiliate partners to track when you make a purchase. For more information, please see Microsoft Advertising privacy policy

Cookies we use

Name Type Provider Functionality Expires
_ga_* Analytics Google Analytics To store and count pageviews 1 year
_ga Analytics Google Analytics To store and count pageviews 2 years
test_cookie Functionality Google Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. 1 day
_uetsid Marketing Bing Ads To store and track visits across websites 1 day
_uetsid_exp Marketing Bing Ads To store and track visits across websites Persistent
_uetvid Marketing Bing Ads To store and track visits across websites 16 days
_uetvid_exp Marketing Bing Ads To store and track visits across websites Persistent
NID Marketing Google Ads Optimization To provide ad delivery or retargeting, store user preferences. 6 months
_gcl_au Marketing Google AdSen se To provide ad delivery or retargeting. Persistent
_gcl_au Marketing Google AdSense To store and track conversions. Persistent
IDE Marketing Google DoubleClick to provide ad delivery or retargeting. 2 years
MUID Marketing Microsoft To store and track visits across websites. 1 year

Managing cookies

You can manage and disable cookies in your browser’s settings.

You should be able to choose from one of the following options for cookie usage in your browser.

  1. Allow all cookies
  2. Block third party cookies
  3. Block all cookies

You should also have the option to choose which specific cookies you want to allow or disallow, and set rules for individual websites.

For the best possible experience on CompareDial, we recommend setting ‘allow all cookies’. By blocking cookies, our website may not work as intended, and some webpages may stop working altogether.