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Cookie Policy for Number facts

This is the Cookie Policy for Number facts, accessible from https://www.numberfacts.one/

This policy was last updated 21th January 2019

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.

According to GDPR, strictly necessary cookies could be set in case they are required for website to work properly. Also, not all cookies are considered private data, for example a cookie to store visitor setting on the website, language or cart can be set without user consent.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

What are the different types of cookies?

A cookie can be classified by its lifespan and the domain to which it belongs. By lifespan, a cookie is either a:

  • session cookie which is erased when the user closes the browser or
  • persistent cookie which remains on the user's computer/device for a pre-defined period of time.

As for the domain to which it belongs, there are either:

  • first-party cookies which are set by the web server of the visited page and share the same domain
  • third-party cookies stored by a different domain to the visited page's domain. This can happen when the webpage references a file, such as JavaScript, located outside its domain.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

If you share the use of a computer, accepting or rejecting the use of cookies will affect all users of that computer.

The Cookies We Set

We uses the following cookie on this website, for the following purposes:

  • remember if Google should personalize ads ('google_ads_personalized_consent')

Strictly necessary cookies

Strictly necessary cookies enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, we will not be able to provide certain features.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

  • This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site.

    We always anonymizing IP addresses in Google Analytics.

    For more information on Google Analytics cookies please see https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

    For more information on Google’s privacy policy please see https://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html

  • The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.

    For more information on Google AdSense please see https://www.google.com/privacy/ads/

  • The following cookies is used by CloudFlare to support performance optimisation and security: _biz_flagsA, _biz_nA, _biz_pendingA, _biz_uid, _hp2_id.xxxxxxxxxx, optimizelyBuckets, optimizelyEndUserId, optimizelySegments

    The "__cfduid" cookie is set by the CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic. It does not correspond to any user id in the web application, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable information.

    For more information on CloudFlare Cookie please see https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170156-What-does-the-Cloudflare-cfduid-cookie-do-

  • The "cookieconsent_status" cookie is used by cookie notification add on via JS to measure if uses has dismissed the cookie notice.

Where can I find more information about cookies?

You may learn more about cookies and how to opt out of them by visiting the following third party websites:

Final words

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.

This Cookies Policy was created partly with the help of CookiePolicyGenerator.com

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