Cookie Policy

COOKIE POLICY

This cookie policy explains how bloggingmidlife.com (“Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at https://bloggingmidlife.com (“Website.”). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

 in some cases we may use cookies to collect personal information, or that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information.

What are cookies? 

 Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, bloggingmidlife.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 provide on or through the website (eg, advertising, interactive content, and analytics).  the parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

Why do we use cookies?

We use first and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons for our website to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or”strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Online Properties. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for advertising, and analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.

How can I control cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the cookie consent manager. The cookie consent manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with the services.

The cookie consent manager can be found in the notification banner and on our website. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. The specific types of first and third party cookies served through our website and their purposes are described in the table below. Please note that the specific cookie served may vary depending on the specific online properties you visit.

Analytics and customization cookies:

these cookies collect information that just used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website for you.

Name: g.gif

Purpose: __________

Provider: pixel.wp.com

Service: ________

Country: United States

Type: pixel_tracker

Expires in: session

Advertising cookies:

These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.

Name: test_cookie

Purpose: A session cookie used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies

Provider: .doublick.net

Service DoubleClick

Country: United States

Type: server_cookie

Expires in: 15 minutes

Name: IDE

Purpose: Usted to measure the conversion rate of ads presented to the user. Expires in 1.5 years.

Provider: .doublclick.net

Service: DoubleClick

Country: United States

Type: server_cookie

Expires in 1 year 11 months 29 days

Unclassified cookies:

These are cookies that have not yet been categorized. We are in the process of classifying these cookies with the help of their providers.

Name: wpEmojiSettingsSupports

Purpose:

Provider: bloggingmidlife.com

Service:

United States

Type: html_session_storage

Expires in: session

Name: wpforo_browser_timezone

Purpose:

Provider: bloggingmidlife

Service:

Country: United States

Type: http_cookie

Expires in 23 hours 59 minutes

Name: wpforo_read_topics

Purpose

Provider: bloggingmidlife.com

Service:

Country: United States

Type: server_cookie

Expires in 2 monhts 29 days

Name: rc::h

Purpose

Provider: google.com

Service

Country: United States

Type: html_local_storage

Expires in persistent

Name: wpforo_read_forums

Purpose

Provider: bloggingmidlife.com

Service:

Country: United States

Type: server cookie

Expires in 2 months 29 days

Name: _ir

Purpose

Provider: api.pinterest.com

Service

Country: Sweden

Type: server_cookie

Expires in 30 minutes

Name: verbum test

Purpose:

Provider: jetpack.wordpress.com

Service:

Country: United States

Type: http_cookie

Expires in: session

How can I control cookies on my browser?

As how you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information. In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more for more information please visit the websites for Digital Advertising Alliance, digital advertising Alliance of Canada, and European interactive digital advertising alliance.

What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?

Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to our website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons or sometimes called tracking pixels. These are tiny graphic files that contain a unique identifier that enables us to recognize when someone has visited our website or opened an e-mail including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, To understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

Do you use Flash cookies or Local Shared Objects?

Websites may also used so-called flash cookies also known as local shared objects or LSOs, to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of our services, fraud prevention, and for other site operations. If you do not want flash cookies stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your Flash Player to block flash cookie storage using the tools contained in the website storage settings panel. You can also control flash cookies by going to the global storage settings panel and following the instructions. Please note that setting the flash player to restrict or limit acceptance of flash cookies may reduce or impede the functionality of some applications including potentially flash applications used in connection with our services or online content.

Do you serve targeted advertising?

Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our Website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. They can accomplish this by using cookies or web beacons to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. They can accomplish this by using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details, or other details that directly identify you unless you choose to provide these.

How often will you update this Cookie Policy?

We may update this cookie policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, and or regulatory reasons. Please therefore revisit this cookie policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. If you have questions about our use of cookies or other technologies please contact us at www.bloggingmidlife.com.