Cookie Policy
How captinvestza.com uses cookies when you read our independent editorial reviews of Capital.com for South African readers.
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When you open a page on captinvestza.com and your browser stores a small text file so that the site remembers your visit, that file is a cookie. It may hold a preference you chose, a session identifier, or a record that a page was already shown to you. It is not a program, it does not run on your device, and it cannot read other files stored there.
From that one example the general rule follows: a cookie is a short piece of data that a website asks your browser to keep and to send back on later requests. Some cookies are deleted the moment you close the browser tab. Others stay for a set period and are read again on your next visit. You can see them, block them or remove them through your browser settings, and doing so will not change the fact that captinvestza.com is a free editorial resource.
We should be clear about what this site is not. captinvestza.com is an independent editorial review site. It is not Capital.com, it is not affiliated with Capital.com, and it does not offer financial services, trading accounts, deposits or advice. The cookies described here relate to reading and navigating this site, not to any trading relationship.
Third-Party Cookies
Not every cookie you encounter on these pages is placed by us. Some are set by services whose tools we use to run and measure the site, and those cookies sit on your browser under another domain. We do not control the content of those files, and their own policies govern how the information in them is handled. What we control is which of these tools we choose to enable and what we ask them to do.
In practice, third-party cookies on captinvestza.com come from analytics providers and from the infrastructure that serves our pages, such as the system that keeps a session stable while you move between articles. We do not use them to build advertising profiles of individual readers, and we do not sell cookie data. Where a tool is not needed for the site to function or for us to understand readership in aggregate, we leave it switched off.
Your browser lets you refuse third-party cookies while still accepting the ones we set directly. That choice may affect how smoothly some pages load, but it will not lock you out of our reviews. If you want to know which third parties are involved at any given time, the most current information is always the list in the next section, kept as close to the live setup as we can manage.
Lifespan of Cookies
Cookies fall into two broad lifetimes. Session cookies last only while your browsing session is open and disappear when you close the tab or the browser. They are typically used to keep a page state consistent as you move around the site. Persistent cookies remain for a defined period, ranging from a few hours to a couple of years, and are read again when you return.
The table below sets out the categories we use and the lifespan attached to each. Lifespans are set by the tool that issues the cookie, so when a provider updates its defaults, the figures here will follow.
Strictly necessary cookies: session only, removed when the browser closes. Preference cookies: up to twelve months, so that choices such as a dismissed notice are not shown again on every visit. Analytics cookies: up to twenty-four months, depending on the provider, because readership trends are easier to see across a longer window. Third-party cookies from infrastructure and analytics tools follow the lifetimes set by those providers, and we keep this description aligned with what they publish.
Analytics and Updates
Measurement cookies help us understand which reviews are read, how readers arrive at the site, and where pages are slow or hard to navigate. They record aggregated information such as page views, referral sources and rough session length. We use that picture to decide what to update and how to present it. We do not use analytics to identify you personally, and we do not combine it with any account information, because this site has no accounts.
This policy is a living document. When we add a tool, retire one, or when a provider changes how long its cookies last, we update the relevant section here and publish the revised text on this page. The date of the latest revision appears at the top of the page, and the current version always replaces earlier ones. We do not send individual notices for routine updates, so if cookie handling matters to you, check this page occasionally.
If you have a question about how cookies are used on captinvestza.com, the contact form on this site is the route to use. Please remember that we are an editorial review site only: we cannot open an account, take a deposit, place a trade or give advice on any broker, including Capital.com.
