What are cookies?
Cookies are little text files that can be stored on your computer or mobile device and contain a string of characters that identify your browser or device specifically. For what purposes are cookies used?
Cookies provide websites and services the ability to determine whether your computer or device has already visited them. Then, cookies can be used to better understand how users are interacting with the website or service, facilitate efficient page navigation, help you remember your preferences, and enhance your browsing experience overall. Additionally, cookies can guarantee that the online advertising you view is more pertinent to you and your preferences.
What types of cookies does News Sphere use?
There are generally four categories of cookies: “Strictly Necessary,” “Performance,” “Functionality,” and “Targeting.” Circuit By Haroon routinely uses all four categories of cookies on the Service. You can find out more about each cookie category below.
- Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookies are essential, as they enable you to move around the Service and use its features, such as accessing logged in or secure areas.
- Performance Cookies. These cookies collect information about how you have used the Service, for example, information related to the unique username you have provided, so that less strain is placed on our backend infrastructure. These cookies may also be used to allow us to know that you have logged in so that we can serve you fresher content than a user who has never logged in. We also use cookies to track aggregate Service usage and experiment with new features and changes on the Service. The information collected is used to improve how the Service works.
- Functionality Cookies. These cookies allow us to remember how you’re logged in, whether you made an edit to an article on the Service while logged out, when you logged in or out, the state or history of Service tools you’ve used. These cookies also allow us to tailor the Service to provide enhanced features and content for you and to remember how you’ve customized the Service in other ways, such as customizing the toolbars we offer in the right column of every page. The information these cookies collect may be anonymous, and they are not used to track your browsing activity on other sites or services.
- Targeting Cookies.Circuit By Haroon, our advertising partners or other third party partners may use these types of cookies to deliver advertising that is relevant to your interests. These cookies can remember that your device has visited a site or service, and may also be able to track your device’s browsing activity on other sites or services other than Circuit By Haroon. This information may be shared with organizations outside Circuit By Haroon, such as advertisers and/or advertising networks to deliver the advertising, and to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign, or other business partners for the purpose of providing aggregate Service usage statistics and aggregate Service testing.
First-party cookies
Circuit By Haroon-owned cookies are referred to as first-party cookies. These cookies are necessary for Circuit By Haroon to function, including enabling features like service login and above-described access to protected tools and pages.
Third-party cookies
Cookies that are placed on your device by a third party via our service are known as third-party cookies. Someone offering a service for Circuit By Haroon may install third-party cookies on your device, for example, to track how our service is being used. Our business partners may also install third-party cookies on your device in order to use them to promote goods and services to you elsewhere on the Internet. On Circuit By Haroon , third-party cookies consist of the following:
- Google analytics – Google analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how visitors to [bloginfo value=’name’] use our website. Google analytics does not receive information from [bloginfo value=’name’] related to your user name, and your IP address is truncated by Google analytics. Data in Google analytics can only be viewed in aggregated fashion, and cannot be tied to individual users. Learn more Google Analytics and privacy from policies.google.com>technologies>partner-sites. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking via tools.google.com>dlpage>gaoptout.
- Google AdSense and DoubleClick – Google AdSense and DoubleClick use cookies to serve advertising on some pages of the Circuit By Haroon Service. These cookies are be used to customize the advertisements that you see to provide ads that are relevant to you. Visitors in some locations may see ads that are based solely on the content of the page, and that are not based upon any personalized information. Learn more about advertising cookies at policies.google.com>technologies>ads.
How long will cookies stay on my device?
Whether a cookie is “persistent” or “session” determines how long it will remain on your computer or mobile device. Cookies used for sessions will disappear from your device after you close the browser. Until they are removed or expire, persistent cookies remain on your computer or mobile device.
How to control and delete cookies
Generally speaking, cookies will improve your browsing experience. You might, however, decide to turn off cookies on this website as well as others. Turning off cookies in your browser is the mo