What are cookies?What cookies does this blog use?
- What countries users are from.
- Which pages on the blog users are reading.
- How many views the blog receives during the day, week, month or year.
How to turn off cookies if you would prefer not to use them.
Cookies are small text files used by websites to store user information, such as login information, site preferences or activity, so that the website displays information relative to the user.
For example, when a user logs into a site, that user's details are kept in a cookie file created by their web browser. This file tells the site that the user is logged in.
If cookies were not used, a user would have to login every time the page was refreshed or a new page was loaded. Thus, cookies are an essential part of modern websites, as they allow the website to be tailored to the individual user.
This blog uses cookies set by Google.
Neither this blog nor any of the services associated with this blog use cookies to identify users or gain personal information from them. All cookies are essential to the running and maintenance of the blog.
Google owns Blogger, the service on which this blog runs. When you log in to Google services a cookie is set to track you across Google products, such as Blogger, Gmail, etc.
This blog also uses Google Analytics, a service which allows webmasters to see useful information such as:
This blog uses Google AdSense to pay for its costs.
Google AdSense uses cookies to show ads that are relevant to the user. It also uses cookies to stop click fraud by ensuring that the user is a valid individual.
Here is a useful site that covers the various web browsers and has instructions on how to control cookies.
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