Understanding Cookies at Black Ops Consultancy
Cookies are small data files that a website sends to your web browser (like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, etc.) when you browse that site. They play a crucial role in allowing websites to remember your previous activities and gather information about your preferences, such as the pages you visited and the links you clicked on. Thus, when you return to the website in the future, it can retrieve the data stored in the cookie to personalize your experience by remembering your preferences.
Your Choice to Opt Out of Cookies
You have the option to accept or decline cookies. While most web browsers automatically accept cookies, you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. For detailed information about cookies, including instructions on how to set your browser to reject them, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
The Cookies We Use at Our Website
Our website employs Google Analytics to help us identify the number of unique visitors, track where visitors come from, determine the pages they visit, their duration of stay, and the keywords they use to find our site. This data is anonymous; we cannot use it to identify you specifically. It does not grant us access to your computer or any personal information about you, apart from what you choose to share with us. Overall, cookies help us provide a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages visitors find useful and which they do not.
Here is a list of the cookies we might use and their purposes:
- _utma: A Google Analytics cookie that records how many times a user has visited the site, as well as the times of their first and last visits.
- _utmb: This Google Analytics cookie stores details of the moment a user enters a site.
- _utmc: A Google Analytics cookie that stores details of the moment a user leaves the site.
- _utmz: This cookie records where the user came from, including the search engine, keywords, and links used.
- PHPSESSID: A session cookie that is destroyed when you close your browser. It enables our website to track whether a visitor has logged in and ensures certain site functions operate correctly.
Opting Out of Google Analytics
If you wish to opt out of Google Analytics, please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. By selecting this option, you will block Google Analytics across all websites, not just ours.
Third Party Cookies
Third-party cookies are set not directly by our website but by services we use to insert useful content into the site. For instance, we use Google’s mapping service, which employs several cookies (khcookie, NID, SNID, PREF) when you visit a page with an embedded Google map. For more details on Google’s privacy policy, please visit http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
By continuing to use our website without opting out, you agree to our use of cookies. We assure you that any information obtained by these cookies is not shared with third parties.