This Cookies Policy describes about What cookies are, How HowToGuides uses cookies on their websites, and How cookies are used. The main motive of using cookies is to make sure that everyone who uses our services has the best experience. We apply different type of cookies to perform complete analytics like keep track of your safe search preferences and let users see more relevant results. After some interval, we perform an audit on all cookies that are used by us. This Cookies Policy will be reviewed in order to make sure that it is up to date by following each audit.
A cookie is a small piece of the text file that is sent to the computer or mobile device or your browser via web server. It helps website in remembering some details related to your activities on that website. The cookie will simply collect the information based on your use of that particular site. It stores details like IP address of the device, type of browser, the link of a third-party site from which you arrived, and demographic data etc.
Moreover, the cookies keep information related to your online preferences also, which help us to modify our websites based on your interests. All the details provided by cookies allows us to analyze the use of our website by you and enable us to offer you a better user experience.
Apart from all this, it can be either session cookies or persistent cookies and all depends on how long they are stored for:
We basically use different types of cookies to run HowToGuides websites and its products related ads. Some or all of these cookies discussed below in Cookies Policy might be stored in the browser used by you. However, you can view and manage all these cookies in your web browser.
These cookies are really important to make HowToGuides websites work in a proper manner. They permit users to roam around our websites and avail our services. For example, remember your previous actions when you navigate back to the page in the same session only.
These cookies enable understand how well our website perform in different locations. In addition, it also provides details of the way visitors interact with our websites by rendering information such as areas visited, total time spent or any issues faced by you . All such information helps us understand how we can tailor our features and services to improve the overall performance of the website.
The main motive of these cookies is to deliver you the content, which is more relevant to you and your interests. These can be used based on your web browser history to collect information like you age, gender etc. We mainly use these cookies to note down the websites you have visited more frequently to improve your experience with our website.
As till now, it is pretty much clear that websites often use cookies to collect information about how you interact with a website. It might include the pages that users visit more frequently and whether you receive any particular error messages from that page. Thus, we take help of these session state cookies to improve our services and to improve your browsing experience. And make sure that blocking or deleting these cookies will not provide the website unserviceable. It also helps in measuring the effectiveness of PPC and affiliate advertising.
Most of the browsers permit you to manage cookies via their settings preferences . But, if you restrict the ability of websites to set cookies, then you may automatically worsen your overall user experience. Because it will be no longer personalized to you. In addition, it might also be possible that you are unable to save the customized settings such as search information.
To control cookies, you can delete cookies from your hard drive, including already set cookies. You are also allowed to alter the preferences or settings in the web browsers. You can delete or clear out your web browser history also. However, keep in mind that blocking or deleting cookies will decrease the functionality of the website in terms of user preference.
As you know, Help feature is offered by almost all browsers. It will let you how to prevent the browser from accepting any new cookie, how to get a notification whenever a new cookie is received, and how to turn off all cookies altogether. Moreover, you can easily disable similar data used by the browser add-ons like Flash cookies.
If you want to disable the Analytics Cookies used by us, then simply click on the link below: Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
If you want to disable the Behavioral Cookies used by us, then simply click on the link below: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html