Effective Date: July 1, 2025

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use, i.e., the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to manage the cookie settings.

1. What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide a better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.

2. How We Use Cookies

As most online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. Without these cookies, services like commenting cannot be provided.
  • Analytical / Performance Cookies (Google Analytics): These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use Google Analytics for this purpose.
  • Purpose: Collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages they visit most often.
  • Data Collected: Anonymous data about your Browse behavior (e.g., IP address, browser type, pages visited, time spent on site).
  • Further Information: You can find more information about Google Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
  • Advertising / Targeting Cookies (Google AdSense): These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. We use Google AdSense to serve ads on our site.
  • Purpose: To serve personalized advertisements to you based on your interests and online activity.
  • Data Collected: Information about your Browse habits (e.g., websites visited, interests inferred from activity).
  • Further Information: You can find more information about Google’s advertising cookies (DART cookie) here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
  • Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your name for comments) to provide a more personalized experience.

4. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can manage your cookie preferences directly in your browser settings. Different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.

You can also opt-out of personalized advertising from Google by visiting the Google Ads Settings: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated
For more information on how to control cookies, visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org.

5. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.

6. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at:
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