Cookies Policy

The sstrader.com website (the "Website") uses cookies to deliver a better and more personalised service to users.

This Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how they are used on the Website and how to manage their use.

What is a Cookie?

Cookies are small text files containing small amounts of information which are sent to and stored on your computer, smartphone or other device when you access a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user's device.

Use of Cookies on the Website

Cookies are used on the Website for a number of reasons. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:

(i) to allow users to log on to their account;

(ii) to allow users to choose log-in preferences;

(iii) to monitor and collect information about transactions placed on the Website; and

(iv) for fraud prevention purposes and to generally safeguard privacy.

Cookies are generally used to improve and enhance the user experience. Some of the cookies we use are essential for the Website to operate.

sstrader's use of cookies on the Website falls into the following categories:

Session Management - these cookies are essential to enable use of the Website, they manage session information and enable users to navigate through the Website.

Functionality - these cookies store information which enables us to remember user preferences e.g. preferred language. They are also used to improve user's experience by, for example, stopping users from being shown the same message twice.

Fraud Prevention - these cookies store information which help us stop fraudulent use of the Website.

Tracking - these cookies enable us to store information about how users landed on the Website. We need to record this so that we can appropriately pay our Affiliates.

Analytical/performance cookies - They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our site, how they reached our site, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website.

Social - These cookies are set by the third-party social media sites to which they relate, including:


Where links are provided on the Website to third party websites it is important to remember that those websites will have their own cookies and privacy policies which will govern any information you may submit. If you decide to use any linked third party websites please read their cookies and privacy policies before doing so.

Managing Cookies

If you want to delete any cookies already stored on your computer or stop the cookies that keep track of your browsing patterns on the Website you can do so by deleting your existing cookies and/or altering your browser's privacy settings (the process you follow will differ from browser to browser). Your browser's 'help' function should guide you through this.

Please note that deleting our cookies or disabling our future cookies means that you may not be able to access certain areas or features of the Website. For example, if your browser is set to disable 'session' cookies you won't be able to log on to your account.

Details of how Website protects your privacy is set out in our Privacy Policy.

Last updated 02/02/2022 (Version 1.0)

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