Cookie Policy

Last Updated: 16.10.2025

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit our website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to the website owners.

Cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website, which allows us to improve user experience and deliver relevant content and advertisements.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for several purposes, including:

  • To enable basic website functionality
  • To analyze how visitors use our site
  • To display personalized advertisements
  • To remember your preferences and settings
  • To understand website performance

3. Types of Cookies We Use

3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the website to function properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

  • Purpose: Website functionality
  • Duration: Session or persistent
  • Control: Cannot be disabled

3.2 Performance and Analytics Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.

Google Analytics Cookies:

  • _ga: Used to distinguish users (2 years)
  • _gid: Used to distinguish users (24 hours)
  • _gat: Used to throttle request rate (1 minute)
  • _gac_: Contains campaign-related information (90 days)

These cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come from, and the pages they visited.

3.3 Advertising and Targeting Cookies

These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other sites.

Google AdSense Cookies:

  • Purpose: To serve personalized advertisements based on your browsing behavior
  • Data Collected: Browser type, pages visited, time spent on pages, demographic information
  • Usage: To show relevant ads, limit ad frequency, measure ad effectiveness

Specific Advertising Cookies:

  • IDE: Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads (1 year)
  • test_cookie: Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies (15 minutes)
  • DSID: Used for targeted advertising (2 weeks)
  • __gads: Associated with the DoubleClick for Publishers service from Google (2 years)

3.4 Functionality Cookies

These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages.

4. Third-Party Cookies

We work with third-party companies that use cookies to collect information about your activities on our site and other websites to provide you with advertising based on your interests.

  • Google Analytics: For website analytics and performance measurement
  • Google AdSense: For displaying relevant advertisements
  • DoubleClick: For ad serving and reporting

5. How to Manage Cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed.

5.1 Browser Controls

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, limiting cookies may affect the functionality of our website.

  • Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data
  • Firefox: Options → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
  • Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Cookies and website data
  • Edge: Settings → Privacy and services → Cookies

5.2 Opt-Out Tools

You can opt out of specific cookie usage through these tools:

5.3 Mobile Advertising Opt-Out

For mobile devices, you can opt out of personalized advertising through your device settings:

  • iOS: Settings → Privacy → Advertising → Limit Ad Tracking
  • Android: Settings → Google → Ads → Opt out of Ads Personalization

6. Your Rights Under UK GDPR

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the following rights regarding cookies and your personal data:

  • Right to be informed: You have the right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data
  • Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data
  • Right to rectification: You have the right to have inaccurate personal data rectified
  • Right to erasure: You have the right to have personal data erased
  • Right to restrict processing: You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data
  • Right to data portability: You have the right to data portability
  • Right to object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data
  • Rights related to automated decision making including profiling: You have rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling

7. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legislation, or our operations. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date.

8. Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, please contact us: