Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how SapphireDomains.com (“Sapphire Domains”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) uses cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, conversion tracking, and similar technologies on our website.

We are based in the European Union and operate a premium digital asset brokerage serving users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the United States, Canada, and other international markets.

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and any cookie consent banner or consent preference tool displayed on our website.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. Similar technologies may include pixels, scripts, tags, local storage, session storage, device identifiers, browser identifiers, and conversion tracking events.

In this Cookie Policy, we refer to all of these technologies collectively as “cookies” or “tracking technologies.”

2. How We Use Cookies

SapphireDomains.com uses cookies and similar technologies to:

• operate and secure the website;
• maintain session integrity during inquiry, offer, and acquisition workflows;
• protect forms from spam, fraud, and abusive submissions;
• remember consent choices;
• measure website traffic and advertising performance;
• track conversion events such as private offer submissions or acquisition inquiries;
• understand which domain assets attract buyer interest;
• improve landing pages, campaigns, and user experience;
• show remarketing ads to previous visitors where legally permitted and where consent has been provided.

We do not store payment card data on SapphireDomains.com. Payment, escrow, registrar, and marketplace activity may be handled by third-party providers.

3. Categories of Cookies We Use

A. Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for the website to function properly. They may be used for security, fraud prevention, consent preference storage, form submission workflows, session integrity, checkout routing, and protection against abusive requests.

Strictly necessary cookies cannot usually be disabled through our consent banner because the website may not function correctly without them.

B. Functional Cookies

Functional cookies help improve the website experience, such as remembering preferences, improving navigation, and supporting form usability.

C. Analytics and Performance Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use SapphireDomains.com. These cookies may collect information such as pages visited, time spent on pages, referral source, browser type, device type, approximate region, interaction events, and performance signals.

Where required by law, analytics cookies are used only after consent.

D. Advertising, Conversion, and Remarketing Cookies

Advertising cookies help us measure and improve advertising campaigns. These cookies may be used to measure Google Ads performance, track conversion events, attribute form submissions to advertising campaigns, create remarketing audiences, manage ad frequency, and understand which campaigns or keywords generate qualified inquiries.

Advertising cookies and remarketing technologies are non-essential. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and other jurisdictions requiring consent, these technologies are used only after you give consent.

4. Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, and Consent Mode

SapphireDomains.com may use Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, Google conversion tracking, Google remarketing technologies, and Google Consent Mode to measure advertising performance and track conversion events such as private offer submissions, acquisition inquiries, contact form submissions, and paid landing page interactions.

Depending on your consent choices, Google may process cookie identifiers, pseudonymous online identifiers, browser and device information, page URL, referrer information, approximate location, ad interaction data, conversion event data, and consent status signals.

For users in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland, we use or may use Google Consent Mode to communicate your consent choices to Google services.

Consent signals may include:

• ad_storage
• analytics_storage
• ad_user_data
• ad_personalization

If you reject advertising or analytics cookies, Google tags may operate in a limited or cookieless mode, depending on technical configuration and applicable law.

5. Legal Basis for Cookies

For users in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland, strictly necessary cookies are used because they are required to provide the website and requested services.

Analytics, advertising, and remarketing cookies are used only with your consent where required by law. You may withdraw consent at any time through our cookie preference tool, where available, or by clearing cookies in your browser.

6. Your Cookie Choices

When you visit SapphireDomains.com, you may be shown a cookie banner or consent preference tool. Depending on your location, you may be able to accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, manage cookies by category, change preferences later, or withdraw consent.

Rejecting non-essential cookies will not prevent you from browsing the website or submitting a domain inquiry, but some personalization, analytics, advertising measurement, and remarketing features may be limited.

7. Browser Controls

You may also control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block cookies, delete existing cookies, block third-party cookies, or receive warnings before cookies are placed.

Please note that blocking all cookies may affect website functionality, including form workflows, session continuity, consent storage, or acquisition routing.

8. United States Privacy Choices

For visitors in the United States, including California residents, certain advertising or analytics activities may be considered “sharing,” “targeted advertising,” or similar activity under some U.S. state privacy laws.

SapphireDomains.com does not sell your personal information to data brokers. However, we may share limited pseudonymous advertising or conversion data with advertising and analytics providers, such as Google, for ad measurement, attribution, remarketing, campaign optimization, fraud prevention, and frequency management.

Where required, you may opt out of sale, sharing, or targeted advertising through our cookie preference tool or other privacy controls made available on the website.

9. Canada and Other International Users

For users in Canada and other jurisdictions, we process cookies and similar technologies in accordance with applicable privacy and electronic communications laws. Where consent is required for non-essential cookies, we request consent before placing those cookies or using equivalent technologies.

10. Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies may be placed by third-party providers when you interact with SapphireDomains.com or when you leave our website to complete payment, escrow, marketplace checkout, registrar transfer, or other transaction-related activity.

These providers may include Google, Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, analytics providers, payment processors, escrow providers, domain marketplaces, registrars, security providers, and fraud-prevention providers.

Third-party providers may process information according to their own privacy policies, cookie policies, and terms. We do not control cookies placed by third-party websites after you leave SapphireDomains.com.

11. Cookie Retention

Cookie retention periods vary depending on cookie type and provider. Some cookies expire when you close your browser. Others may remain for a defined period unless you delete them or change your preferences.

We aim to retain cookie-derived data only for as long as reasonably necessary for website operation, security, analytics, advertising measurement, campaign attribution, legal compliance, fraud prevention, and transaction support.

12. Updates to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, advertising tools, analytics systems, legal requirements, consent technologies, third-party service providers, or domain acquisition workflows.

When we make material changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date above.

13. Contact Us

For questions about this Cookie Policy, our use of cookies, consent choices, or privacy rights, contact us at privacy@sapphiredomains.com.