1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
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.
2. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for several purposes on SipVeno.com:
- Essential Cookies: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies might allow basic navigation. (We currently use minimal essential cookies).
- Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our Website works. We use Google Analytics for this purpose.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as potentially your username, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. (We currently do not use extensive functionality cookies, but may in the future).
- Advertising Cookies (Potential Future Use): If we decide to display advertising from third-party networks (like Google AdSense) in the future, these networks may use cookies to collect information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. We will update this policy if we implement advertising cookies.
3. Types of Cookies Used
Below is a list of the main cookies we currently use or may use:
- Google Analytics Cookies (`_ga`, `_gid`, `_gat_*`): Used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Google's Privacy Policy
- Session Cookies (e.g., `PHPSESSID`): Standard PHP session cookie, used to maintain user state across page requests. Usually expires when the browser is closed.
- Cookie Consent Cookie (e.g., `cookie_consent_status`): May be used by a cookie banner solution (if implemented) to remember your consent preferences.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
4. How to Manage Cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
5. Cookie Consent
When you first visit our Website, we may show a banner asking for your consent to use non-essential cookies. By continuing to use our site after seeing the banner, or by clicking "Accept" (if applicable), you agree to our use of cookies as described in this policy. You can change your cookie preferences at any time by adjusting your browser settings.
6. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date. We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically for any changes.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us:
- Via our Contact Us page
- By email: [Your Contact Email Address]