COOKIES NOTICE

Like many companies, My Grain Exchange Inc. ("MGX", "we", "us", "our") uses cookies on this Site. Cookies are pieces of information shared between your web browser and a website. Use of cookies enables a faster and easier experience for the user. A cookie cannot read data off your computer's hard drive. For more information on cookies, visit https://allaboutcookies.org/.

There are different kinds of cookies with different functions:

  1. Session cookies: these are only stored on your computer during your web session. They are automatically deleted when the browser is closed. They usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page. They do not collect any information from your computer.

  2. Persistent cookies: a persistent cookie is one stored as a file on your computer, and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again.

  3. First-party cookies: the function of this type of cookie is to retain your preferences for a particular website for the entity that owns that website. They are stored and sent between the provider's servers and your computer's hard drive. They are not used for anything other than for personalization as set by you. These cookies may be either session or persistent cookies.

  4. Third-party cookies: the function of this type of cookie is to retain your interaction with a particular website for an entity that does not own that website. They are stored and sent between the third party's server and your computer's hard drive. These cookies are usually persistent cookies.

Except as described in this Cookie Notice, we do not use third-party cookies on our Sites, although we do use third party provided web beacons (please see the section on Web Beacons below).

This Site does use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be

transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this

information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website

activity, and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage for Provider and its affiliates. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by

law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not

associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

Where Strictly Necessary

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the Site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Site. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, such as posting auctions or bids or logging into your account, cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.

Performance

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a Site, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. They also allow us to record and count the number of visitors to the Site, all of which enables us to see how visitors use the Site in order to improve the way that our Site works. These cookies do not collect information that

identifies a person, as all information these cookies collect is anonymous and is used to improve how our Site works.

Functionality

These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or

the region you are in) and provide enhanced features. For instance, a Site may be able to remember your log in details, so that you do not have to repeatedly sign in to your account when using a

particular device to access our Site. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, font and other parts of web pages that you can customize. They may also be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video or commenting on an article. The

information these cookies collect is usually anonymized. They do not gather any information about you that could be used for advertising or remember where you have been on the internet.

Please consult your web browser's "Help" documentation or visit https://allaboutcookies.org/ for more information about how to turn cookies on and off for your browser.

Web Beacons

The Site may also use web beacons (including web beacons supplied or provided by third parties) alone or in conjunction with cookies to compile information about users' usage of the Site and

interaction with e-mails from Provider. Web beacons are clear electronic images that can recognize certain types of information on your computer, such as cookies, when you viewed a particular Site tied to the web beacon, and a description of a Site tied to the web beacon. We use web beacons to operate and improve the Sites and e-mail communications. We may use information from web

beacons in combination with other data we have about our clients to provide you with information about us and our services.

IP Addresses

When you visit our Sites, we collects your Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses to track and aggregate non-Personal Information. For example, we uses IP addresses to monitor the regions from which users navigate the Sites.

Summary of Cookies Used

The table below is a list of the main cookies set by our websites and through the access of our

Services. Please note that we may modify or update our cookies from time to time, in which case we will update this cookies notice accordingly.

Cookie Name

Domain

Purpose

Service Provider

gaD2HB8TRFRR

.mygrainexchange.com

Google Analytics tracking

My Grain Exchange

_ga

.mygrainexchange.com

Google Analytics tracking

My Grain Exchange

gclau

.mygrainexchange.com

Google Ads conversion tracking

My Grain Exchange

remember_web_59ba36addc2b2f9401580f014c7f58ea4e30989d

.mygrainexchange.com

Remember user's login information

My Grain Exchange

csrftoken

.mygrainexchange.com

Cross-site request forgery protection

My Grain Exchange

984241ba-ea26-44cb-9aeb-6f6f8b2c009e71e2d6

.fontawesome.com

Font Awesome integration

Font Awesome

recent-views

.stripe.com

Track recently viewed documents

Stripe

site-auth

.stripe.com

Site authentication

Stripe

cid

.stripe.com

Unique visitor identifier

Stripe

color-scheme

.stripe.com

User interface color preference

Stripe

expanded-topics

.stripe.com

Store expanded/collapsed topics in the documentation

Stripe

docs.prefs

.stripe.com

Documentation preferences (platform and language)

Stripe

scfc

.stripe.com

Security feature for tracking client-side behavior

Stripe

merchant

.stripe.com

Store merchant account identifier

Stripe

private_machine_identifier

.stripe.com

Private machine identification for security purposes

Stripe

__stripe_orig_props

.stripe.com

Track original referrer and landing page

Stripe

machine_identifier

.stripe.com

Public machine identification for security purposes

Stripe

lang

.stripe.com

Store user's preferred programming language

Stripe

stripe.csrf

.stripe.com

Cross-site request forgery protection

Stripe