Understanding Cookies
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How We Use Cookies
At Sci-Tech Today (sci-tech-today.com), we use cookies to enhance your browsing experience by:
- Tracking User Interactions: Cookies help us understand how you use our site, which enables us to improve website functionality, structure, and content.
- Personalizing Your Experience: By remembering your preferences and settings, such as language and location, cookies help personalize your experience on our site.
- Delivering Targeted Advertising: We use cookies to track your interests and provide advertisements more likely to be relevant to you.
Types of Cookies We Use
- Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site.
- Persistent Cookies: These remain in the cookie file of your browser for a longer period (which will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we use various third-parties services like Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, and Hotjar to help us analyze how our site is used and to optimize our marketing efforts. These services may also use cookies to gather information about your activities on our site and other sites in order to provide you with targeted advertising.
Managing Cookies
If you prefer to avoid the use of cookies on our site, you can disable cookies through your browser settings. For detailed guidance on how to control and delete cookies, we recommend visiting allaboutcookies.org. Here are specific guides for popular browsers:
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Social Media Cookies
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Transparency and Compliance
Our cookie policy ensures transparency and compliance with privacy laws such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We are committed to providing clear information about how cookies are used on our site.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our cookie policy, please feel free to contact us at [email protected].
Updates to This Policy
We may update this cookie policy from time to time in response to changing legal, technical, or business developments. When we update our cookie policy, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our cookie practices.