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Cookie Notice And Policy For brianDhawkins.com

Credit: This document was created using a Contractology template available at http://www.freenetlaw.com.

Cookie Notice: This website uses tracking cookies or equivalent technologies without asking for consent.

Cookies and Web Beacons: brianDhawkins.com uses cookies to store information about visitors’ preferences, to record user-specific information on which pages the site visitor accesses or visits, and to personalize or customize our web page content based upon visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.

About cookies: This website uses cookies.  By using this website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to brianDhawkins.com’s use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

Cookies are files sent by web servers to web browsers and stored by web browsers.

The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.  This enables a web server to identify and track web browsers.

There are two main kinds of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies.  Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach their expiry date.

EU ePrivacy laws: This website uses tracking cookies or equivalent technologies without asking for consent first, and DOES NOT adhere to the latest EU ePrivacy laws This only applies to organizations who trade with the EU.

Cookies on our website

brianDhawkins.com uses the following cookies on this website, for the following purposes:

Google cookies

Google Analytics: brianDhawkins.com uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website.  Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers.  The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store and use this information.  Google’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.

Google Analytics collects information about how visitors use our site. Google Analytics uses the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from, and the pages they visited.

Advertiser, Partner, and Affiliate Cookies

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include:

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on brianDhawkins.com and which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by our site’s third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on the site.

Google Adsense: brianDhawkins.com publishes Google Adsense interest-based advertisements on this website.  These are tailored by Google to reflect your interests.  To determine your interests, Google will track your behavior across the web using cookies.  You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser using Google’s Ads Preference Manager, available at http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/.  You can opt out of the Adsense partner network cookie at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.  However, this opt-out mechanism uses a cookie, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained. To ensure that an opt-out is maintained in respect of a particular browser, you should use the Google browser plug-in available at http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin.

Other third-party cookies: When you use this website, you may also be sent the following third-party cookies, which may be used for the following purposes:

DoubleClick DART Cookie:

  • → Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on brianDhawkins.com.
  • → Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our site’s visitors based upon their visit to brianDhawkins.com and other sites on the Internet.
  • → Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL – http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.

Refusing cookies: Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies.

In Internet Explorer, you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.

In Firefox, you can adjust your cookies settings by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”.

Blocking cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of some websites.

Helpful links from various browsers on how to manage cookie settings:

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites. What Are Cookies?