This Cookie Policy explains how “CodeTidBits” (the “Website”) uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites place on your computer or device through your web browser. They help websites remember information about your visit, making your experience smoother and more personalized.
You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu
How Do We Use Cookies?
CodeTidBits uses cookies for the following purposes:
- Functionality: These cookies help the Website function properly. They enable basic features like navigation and access to secure areas.
- Performance: These cookies collect information about how you use the Website. This data helps us improve performance, understand usage patterns, and fix issues.
- Personalization: These cookies remember your preferences (like language or location). They help tailor the Website’s content to your interests.
- Advertising: These cookies may be used by our advertising partners to deliver relevant ads to you on our Website and others based on your online activity.
Types of Cookies We Use
- Session Cookies: These are temporary and are deleted automatically when you close your browser.
- Persistent Cookies: These remain on your device for a set duration or until manually deleted.
- First-Party Cookies: These are set by CodeTidBits directly.
- Third-Party Cookies: These are set by our trusted partners or service providers (e.g., for advertising and analytics).
As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
What Cookies Do We Use?
The list below sets out more information about some of the individual Cookies used on our Website and the purposes for which they are used:
Cloudfare
We use the “Cloudflare” service provided by Cloudflare Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. (hereinafter referred to as “Cloudflare”). Cloudflare offers a content delivery network with DNS that is available worldwide. As a result, the information transfer that occurs between your browser and our website is technically routed via Cloudflare’s network. This enables Cloudflare to analyze data transactions between your browser and our website and to work as a filter between our servers and potentially malicious data traffic from the Internet. In this context, Cloudflare may also use cookies or other technologies deployed to recognize Internet users, which shall, however, only be used for the herein described purpose. The use of Cloudflare is based on our legitimate interest in a provision of our website offerings that is as error free and secure as possible (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). For more information on Cloudflare’s security precautions and data privacy policies, please follow this link: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/.
Google reCAPTCHA
“Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) is implemented on our website. This service is provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). We use reCHAPTA on our websites to prevent various types of data processing abuse attempts (e.g. phishing). reCHAPTA analyses various information of the respective visitor (e.g. IP address, mouse movements of the user, length of stay on the website). By using reCAPTCHA, data is transferred to Google, which is used to determine whether the visitor is a human being or a (spam) bot. The data processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in protecting our web offers against abusive automated spying, against spam as well as protecting third parties against such attacks. You can read which data is collected by Google and what this data is used for at https://policies.google.com/privacy. You can read the terms of use for Google services and products at https://policies.google.com/terms.
Our Use of Cookies Generally Requires Your Consent
When you first visit our Website, we’ll ask for your permission to use cookies. These cookies help us improve your experience and are described in our Cookie Policy.
Some cookies are essential for the Website to function properly. We automatically use these ‘Strictly Necessary Cookies‘ to provide the services you request. You can learn more about them in our Cookie Policy.
Blocking Cookies
You can manage your cookie preferences directly in your browser settings. To choose which cookies to allow or block, look for the privacy or cookies section within your browser.
For additional help and instructions on managing cookies in different browsers, visit www.allaboutcookies.org
What happens when you do not consent to cookies and or you choose to block cookies that you have previously accepted?
In order to use some parts of our Website you will need to consent to Cookies. If you choose to withhold consent, or subsequently block cookies, some aspects of our Website may not work properly and you may not be able to access all or part of Website.
Managing Cookie Preferences
Most browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can typically:
- View the cookies currently stored on your device.
- Accept or reject specific cookies.
- Disable all cookies.
Please note that disabling cookies may impair Website functionality. For more information on managing cookies, visit your browser’s help section.
Cookie SettingsYou can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the above button. This will let you revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences or withdraw your consent right away.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.
Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer-bca9446f-d873-78de-77ba-d42645fa52fc
If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy may be updated occasionally. If we make significant changes, we will notify you.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Cookie Policy, please get in touch with us using our Contact Us Page.
Effective Date: 10-03-2024