Last updated November 03, 2020
What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses
cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This
page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these
cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may
downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the site's functionality.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most
cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the
functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if
you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you
use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your
browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the
functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result
in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that
you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
- Account related cookies
If you create an account with us then we will
use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies
will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to
remember your site preferences when logged out.
- Login related cookies
We use cookies when you are logged in so that
we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a
new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can
only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
- Forms related cookies
When you submit data through a form such as
those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details
for future correspondence.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties.
The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this
site.
- This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and
trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and
ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you
spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging
content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics
page.
- As we sell products it's important for us to understand statistics
about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind
of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can
accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs
to ensure the best possible price.
- The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a
DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that
a given ad is shown to you.
For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google
AdSense privacy FAQ.
- Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies
simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites
so that we can credit them appropriately and where applicable allow our affiliate partners to
provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.
- We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow
you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social
media sites including; {List the social networks whose features you have integrated with your
site?:12}, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their
site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective
privacy policies.
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned
if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to
leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.
However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us
through one of our preferred contact methods:
- Email: hi@nerdabe.com
- By visiting this link: https://nerdabe.com/contact