Effective Date: [March 27, 2024]
1. Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how NewzRightNow.com (“we”, “us”, “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on our website https://newzrightnow.com/ (the “Site”), and your choices regarding cookies.
This policy should be read together with our [Link to Your Privacy Policy] which provides more details on how we handle personal data. By using our Site, you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this policy, unless you have disabled them.
2. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. When you visit the website again, the cookie allows that site to recognize your browser. Cookies can store user preferences and other information.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, NewzRightNow.com) are called “first-party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third-party cookies”. Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics).
Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
3. How We Use Cookies
We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Site to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Site, perform analytics, and serve advertising. We categorize our cookie usage as follows:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our Site and to enable you to use some of its features. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Site, you cannot refuse them without impacting how our Site functions. (Note: A simple news site might have minimal use of these unless there are login features).
- Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use our Site, such as which pages you visit most often, how much time you spend on those pages, and if you get error messages. This helps us understand how the Site is performing and how we can improve it. The information collected is often aggregated and anonymous. We primarily use Google Analytics for this purpose.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make (such as language preferences or region) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized, and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
- Advertising and Targeting Cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you and your interests. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your inferred interests. We use Google AdSense, which uses cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our Site or other websites.
4. Specific Cookies We Use
While the specific cookies used can change, they generally fall into the categories above. Key third parties that may set cookies through our Site include:
- Google Analytics: Used to collect statistical information about Site usage. Google Analytics cookies help us understand visitor numbers, traffic sources, and page interactions. Google provides tools to manage its Analytics data collection: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
- Google AdSense: Used to display advertisements. Google uses cookies (like the DART cookie) to personalize the ads shown to you based on your visits to our Site and other sites on the Internet. You can learn more and manage your preferences regarding Google’s advertising cookies here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
- [Other Third Parties]: If you use other services like specific social media widgets that set cookies, embedded video players (other than standard YouTube which falls under Google), or other ad networks, list them here.
5. Your Choices Regarding Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies (other than strictly necessary ones). You can exercise your cookie preferences in the following ways:
- Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. You can typically set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Common browser settings can usually be found in the ‘options’, ‘settings’, or ‘preferences’ menu. Please consult your browser’s help documentation for specific instructions. Note that disabling cookies may negatively impact your experience on our Site and some features may not function correctly.
- Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
- Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
- Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/delete-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b9-2a946a29ae09
- Safari (Desktop): https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
- Safari (Mobile): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265
- Third-Party Opt-Outs: As mentioned above, you can opt out of personalized advertising from Google AdSense via their settings page. You can also opt out of interest-based advertising from many third-party ad networks through tools provided by:
- Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA): http://optout.aboutads.info/
- Network Advertising Initiative (NAI): http://optout.networkadvertising.org/
- European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) (for users in Europe): http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/
- (Optional) Cookie Consent Banner/Tool: If you implement a cookie consent banner or management tool on your site, refer users to that tool here for managing their preferences directly on your Site.
6. Other Tracking Technologies
In addition to cookies, we may use other similar technologies like web beacons (also known as “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier, enabling us to recognize when someone has visited our Site or opened an email containing them. This allows us, for example, to monitor traffic patterns, deliver cookies, understand whether you have come to the Site from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, improve site performance, and measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.
7. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We encourage you to review this policy periodically. The “Effective Date” at the top indicates when it was last revised.
8. Contact Us
If you have questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us:
By email: [contact@newzrightnow.com]