What Are Cookies?
Cookies, also known as "HTTP" cookies", "browser cookies", or "web cookies", are small data files that websites store on your computer or device when you visit them. These files serve multiple purposes, ranging from remembering your shopping cart contents to tracking your activities across the internet.
Enhancing Website Functionality
One of the fundamental roles of cookies is to enhance your browsing experience. They can remember the items you added to your shopping cart, allowing you to resume your shopping without losing any selections. Additionally, cookies can store the text you enter in a form, making it convenient if you accidentally navigate away from the page.
Maintaining User Accounts
Cookies play a crucial role in user account management. By remembering your login information, websites can keep you signed in, saving you the hassle of repeatedly entering your credentials. This feature ensures seamless access to personalized content and services without interruption.
Analyzing User Interactions
Websites also utilize cookies for analytical purposes. Through these cookies, website operators can monitor user interactions, gathering valuable data about user behavior, preferences, and browsing habits. This information helps improve the website's performance, usability, and content to deliver a more tailored and satisfying experience.
The Legal Aspect
Many countries have enacted regulations that govern the use of cookies to protect user privacy. Website operators are required to inform users about their cookie usage practices, often through a Privacy Policy or Cookies Policy. In some jurisdictions, websites must obtain user consent before setting cookies on their devices.
The Cookie Banner
To comply with these regulations, you'll often come across a "cookie banner" or "cookie notice" when visiting websites. These banners inform you about the website's use of cookies and provide options to accept or decline their usage. By acknowledging the notice or adjusting your preferences, you can exercise control over the cookies being set on your device.
The Benefits of Cookie Warnings
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.
This Cookies Policy explains what Cookies are and how We use them. You should read this policy so You can understand what type of cookies We use, or the information We collect using Cookies and how that information is used.
Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about You may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from Cookies. For further information on how We use, store and keep your personal data secure, see our Privacy Policy.
We do not store sensitive personal information, such as mailing addresses, account passwords, etc. in the Cookies We use.
What Can Cookies Reveal About You?
Cookies, though not designed to identify individuals by name, can disclose various aspects of your online activities. They store information such as browsing history, form entries, search queries, and even location data. While cookies typically associate data with a unique identifier rather than real-world identities, the stored datasets can potentially unveil personal information and jeopardize privacy.
Are Cookies Considered Personal Information?
Determining whether cookies are classified as personal information depends on the specific function of the cookie and the legal jurisdiction in which the user is based. The European Union (EU) was one of the first regions to recognize cookies as personal information under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This recognition led to the widespread use of "cookie banners" across the internet.
Do Websites Need Permission for Cookies?
In the EU, website operators must seek user consent before setting certain types of cookies, as mandated by the ePrivacy Directive. However, there are exceptions. Consent is not required for cookies that are essential for providing requested online services or those used for transmitting communications. This means that consent may not be necessary for cookies performing functions like storing items in a shopping cart, verifying identity on secure websites, or ensuring smooth website operation.
Cookies Requiring Consent in the EU
Cookies used for analytics and advertising purposes require user consent in the EU. Analytics cookies help website operators understand user navigation, website performance, and visitor statistics. Advertising cookies enable businesses to track user behavior and provide personalized or targeted advertisements based on online activities.
Are Cookies Bad?
The concerns surrounding cookies primarily revolve around privacy rather than security. Tracking cookies allow companies like Google and Facebook to create user profiles by monitoring online activities. With the vast amount of personal information shared online, this profiling can accurately depict individuals' identities, locations, and preferences.
Is It Safe to Agree to Cookies?
While cookies can theoretically pose security threats, such instances are rare. Most of the time, agreeing to cookies is safe. However, caution should be exercised when transmitting sensitive personal information over unsecured Wi-Fi networks, as session cookies could potentially collect such data, making it vulnerable to hackers.
Why Are Cookies a Privacy Risk?
Cookies that store user-entered information on websites can pose a privacy risk. However, this data is typically encrypted, ensuring only the intended recipient and the user can access it. The greater privacy risk arises from third-party cookies set by companies unrelated to the website visited. These cookies track users across the web, allowing them to gather extensive data without explicit user consent.
Can I Opt Out of Cookies?
In the European Union and the United Kingdom, websites should request user consent before using cookies (opt-in). However, compliance with this rule varies. Outside the EU, legal obligations to offer opt-out options are limited, especially in regions with weak privacy laws like the United States. In California, the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) provide certain provisions for cookie-related opt-outs.
Managing Cookies
Even if websites do not offer opt-out choices, users can take measures to avoid cookies. Utilizing privacy-focused browsers like Mozilla Firefox or Brave Browser, or regularly clearing cookies, are effective ways to manage cookie tracking and enhance privacy.
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.
Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close your web browser.
We use both session and persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
Session Cookies:
Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.
Functionality Cookies:
Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.
The use of the Your Choices Regarding Cookies
If You prefer to avoid the use of Cookies on the Website, first You must disable the use of Cookies in your browser and then delete the Cookies saved in your browser associated with this website. You may use this option for preventing the use of Cookies at any time.
If You do not accept Our Cookies, You may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Website and some features may not function properly.
If You'd like to delete Cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse Cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.
- For the Chrome web browser, please visit this page from Google: support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
- For the Internet Explorer web browser, please visit this page from Microsoft: support.microsoft.com/kb/278835
- For the Firefox web browser, please visit this page from Mozilla: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored
- For the Safari web browser, please visit this page from Apple: support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
For any other web browser, please visit your web browser's official web pages.
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.
The Cookies We Set
- Email newsletters related cookies
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
- Site preferences cookies
In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
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.
- 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 Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense Privacy Policy .
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
- Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
- Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.
More Information
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.
However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:
Contact Us
Thank you for providing your contact information. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Cookies Policy, please feel free to reach out to us using the following contact details:
By Email: ApexRevolt@GroupMail.com
We strive to address inquiries promptly and provide you with the necessary information you require.