Overview
Cookies are small files that a website stores in your browser. Websites can also use similar browser storage (“local storage” and “session storage”). This policy lists everything of this kind that our official website, https://irq-gate.iq, uses. The website is operated by Iraq Gate for Internet Services LLC (Iraq Gate).
The website uses essential cookies and storage and, only if you allow it, Google Analytics. It does not use advertising or social-media tracking.
Essential cookies
These cookies are needed for the website and its forms to work and to keep them secure. They do not need your consent, and they are not used to track you.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
iraq-gate-session | Iraq Gate (this website) | Keeps your session: protects forms, shows form messages after you submit, and remembers that this browser may view a support ticket you opened with its private link (only a fingerprint of the link is kept). Not readable by scripts. | 2 hours after your last activity |
XSRF-TOKEN | Iraq Gate (this website) | Security token that protects forms against cross-site request forgery. | 2 hours after your last activity |
ig_consent | Iraq Gate (this website) | Remembers your cookie choices, the version of those choices and the date you made them. Set only after you choose. | 180 days |
__cf_bm, cf_clearance | Cloudflare (our DNS, content delivery and security provider) | Used only if Cloudflare’s protection is triggered, for example to tell people from automated traffic or to remember that you passed a security check. Not observed during normal browsing in our review. | Typically 30 minutes, set by Cloudflare |
Similar browser storage
| Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
ig-animation-paused | Local storage | Remembers that you paused (or resumed) the moving illustrations or the homepage video. Set only when you press the pause or play button. | Until you clear your browser’s site data |
support-open:<page> | Session storage | On a support-ticket page, stops the page from repeatedly trying to open your ticket automatically. Holds only a time value. | Until you close the browser tab |
Animation preferences
If your device is set to reduce motion, the website keeps its illustrations still and does not play the homepage video unless you press play. You can also pause them at any time; that choice is remembered in ig-animation-paused, as listed above.
Analytics cookies (only with your consent)
If you allow the Analytics category, we use Google Analytics, a service provided by Google, to understand how the website is used: which pages are visited, how visitors find us, and whether the contact form and contact links are used. Google Analytics is never loaded before you allow it, and never on admin pages, private support-ticket pages or error pages.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Google (Google Analytics) | Distinguishes visitors with a random identifier, so that visits can be counted. | Up to 6 months from your first visit (later visits do not extend it) |
_ga_X6DJ02LY7Q | Google (Google Analytics) | Keeps the state of your current visit (session) for our Google Analytics property. | Up to 6 months from your most recent activity on the website; may be renewed on later visits |
What Google Analytics receives from our website:
- the address of the page, without anything after a “?”;
- the website you came from, reduced to its main address;
- your country and region, derived from your IP address (not your city or precise location);
- your browser, device type and language;
- how long pages are open and how far they are scrolled;
- whether a contact inquiry was saved, or a phone or email link was clicked.
It never receives what you type into our forms, your name, email address or phone number, or support-ticket references or links. Google Analytics does not store your IP address. We do not use Google Analytics for advertising: Google signals, user-provided data collection and ads personalization are turned off. Google Analytics keeps event data for 14 months and data linked to the random identifier for 14 months after your most recent visit, then Google deletes it.
Marketing: not in use
We do not use marketing or advertising tools, such as the Meta Pixel or Google advertising tags. Choosing “Accept all” therefore does not allow any advertising use. If we add such a tool, it will be loaded only if you allow the Marketing category, and we will update this policy and ask for your choice again. Allowing analytics does not allow marketing.
Your choices
You can accept or reject optional categories, or choose them one by one, using Cookie settings at the bottom of every page. You can change or withdraw your choice there at any time. If you withdraw a category, we remove the cookies it set and stop its scripts. For Google Analytics, this means we delete _ga and _ga_X6DJ02LY7Q and reload the page so that it stops. When we detect on a later visit that your choice has expired, we delete these Google Analytics cookies and ask you again. Your choice is kept for 180 days. After that, or if this policy changes in a way that affects your choice, we will ask you again.
You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. If you block essential cookies, the forms and support-ticket access may not work.
Contact
Iraq Gate for Internet Services LLC (Iraq Gate), Baghdad – Rabee St. 633-29, B29, Second Floor, P.O. Box 88066 IQ – Baghdad, Iraq. Phone: +964 780 929 5546.
Questions about cookies: info@irq-gate.iq. Website: https://irq-gate.iq. See also our Privacy Policy.