Cookie Policy - How Shark Earnings Uses Cookies
Last updated: August 11, 2025
This Cookie Policy guide explains how Shark Earnings ("we", "us", or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website https://sharkearnings.com (the "Site"). It explains what these technologies are, why we use them, and your rights to control our use of them.
Learn how we use cookies and tracking technologies to enhance your experience on Shark Earnings platform.
What Are Cookies
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Shark Earnings) are called "first-party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies". Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., social logins, live chat, and analytics).
Why We Use Cookies
We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Site to operate, and we refer to these as "necessary" or "essential" cookies. Other cookies, which you can control, help us track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Site. The specific types of cookies we use are described below.
Necessary Cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Site and to use some of its core features, such as access to secure areas, session management, security, and integrated functionalities like social logins or support chat. Because these are essential for the site to work, they cannot be refused.
| Name / Type | Provider | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | sharkearnings.com | Manages your secure session and protects forms against unauthorized commands (CSRF). | Session |
| localStorage: shark_cookie_prefs | sharkearnings.com | Stores your cookie consent preferences to respect your choices on future visits. | 1 year |
| _cf* | Cloudflare | Used for CAPTCHA security on forms to protect against bots. | Varies |
| FingerprintJS visitorId | fpjscdn.net / sharkearnings.com | Generates a unique device identifier for fraud prevention and security. Data is processed client-side and stored in session storage. | Session |
| Verisoul Session & Device Data | verisoul.ai / sharkearnings.com | Identity verification through facial recognition (Face Match), device fingerprinting, fraud detection, bot prevention, and account security. Performs biometric liveness checks to verify user authenticity and protect against fraudulent activities including deepfakes, photo attacks, multi-accounting, and other security threats. This is essential for maintaining platform integrity and protecting genuine users. | Session / Persistent |
| G_AUTHUSER, G_ENABLED_IDPS | accounts.google.com | Required for the "Sign in with Google" feature to function. | Varies |
| TawkConnectionTime, __tawkuuid | tawk.to | Maintains your session with our live support chat and provides consistent customer support experience. | Varies |
Functional Cookies
These cookies enable specific functionality on the site that enhances your experience, such as remembering who referred you. These are only set based on your actions (e.g., clicking a referral link).
| Name / Type | Provider | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| referrer_code | sharkearnings.com | Remembers who invited you to the site. This ensures that the referrer correctly receives their commission after your successful registration. | 30 days |
Analytics Cookies
These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are. These are only set if you provide your consent. For more details, you can review Google's cookie policy.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 2 years |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Registers a unique ID to generate statistical data on visitor sessions. | 24 hours |
| _gat | Google Analytics | Used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate, improving performance. | 1 minute |
| Cloudflare Insights ID | cloudflareinsights.com | Collects anonymous performance and usage analytics to monitor site speed and health. | Varies |
| TawkTo Analytics | tawk.to | Collects anonymous usage statistics about support chat interactions to improve customer service quality. | Varies |
Third-Party Offer & Advertiser Cookies
When you click on a link to complete an offer from one of our partners (e.g., on an offerwall), you will be redirected to a third-party website. These third-party sites use their own cookies and tracking technologies to monitor the completion of the offer and to report it back to us. We do not control these third-party cookies. Your interaction with these sites is governed by their respective cookie and privacy policies. It is essential to have cookies enabled in your browser for offer tracking to work correctly.
How Can You Control Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences at any time by using our cookie consent manager, which can be accessed via the banner or the settings link in the footer of our website. From there, you can enable or disable the different categories of cookies.
You can also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information. For general information, you can visit cookiepedia.co.uk.
Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at [email protected] or contact us via our support page.
