This Cookies Policy explains how Tripwire Magazine use cookies and similar technologies on our website, what cookies are and what you can do to remove and manage how cookies are used. We are committed to protecting the personal information we collect when you use our website and other services.
What are cookies
Cookies are used on virtually all websites today. In some cases, cookies may be necessary to provide a service on the website.
A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that the website can remember some information about the visitors browsing activity on the website. Cookies are either ‘session’ or ‘persistent’ cookies, depending on how long they are stored for:
- Session cookies are only stored for the duration of your visit to a website and are deleted from your device when you close your browser;
- Persistent cookies are saved on your device for a fixed period of time after the browser has closed and are activated each time you visit the website where the cookie was generated.
The cookie will collect information relating to your use of our sites, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data, and if you arrived at our site via a link from third party site, the URL of the linking page.
Cookies record information about your online preferences and help us to tailor our websites to your interests. Information provided by cookies can help us to analyze your use of our sites and help us to provide you with a better user experience.
How Tripwire Magazine use cookies
Functional Cookies
We use functional cookies to enable certain online functionality included on our websites:
- identify returning users, subscribers and to allow them to be presented with a personalized version of our websites
- sessions for users that are logged in
- commenting on our sites
Analytical Cookies
We use Analytical cookies to measure performance of our websites and the users’ behavior. By using web analytics services provided by Google Analytics and getClicky we can analyze which pages are viewed, the amount of time spend on the site, which links are followed, and we can choose to use this information to provide users with more content that meet their interests.
Behavioral Advertising Cookies
We use behavioral advertising cookies to manage and track online advertising. Our approved, advertising partners, Google Adsense and Doubleclick use cookies to provide advertising to you and to enable us to manage our relationship with those advertisers by, for example, tracking how many unique users have seen a particular advertisement or followed a link in an advertisement.
Other Third Party Cookies
Some pages of our websites set cookies that are not related to Tripwire Magazine. Examples of this could be when you visit a page with content embedded from e.g. YouTube or Facebook. These third party service providers may set their own cookies on your device. Tripwire Magazine does not control the use of these third party cookies and cannot access them due to the way that cookies work, as cookies can only be accessed by the party who originally set them. Please check the third party websites for more information about these cookies.
How to manage and/or delete cookies?
Cookies can be prevented, and those, that have already been set, can be deleted from your hard drive.
To prevent all or specific cookies you can change the preferences/settings in your web browser to control cookies. In some cases, you can choose to accept cookies from the primary site, but block them from third parties. In others, you can block cookies from specific advertisers, or clear out all cookies. Please keep in mind that deleting or blocking cookies may reduce functionality of the site. To learn more about how to reject cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org or go to the help menu within your Internet browser. If you experience any problems having deleted cookies, you should contact the supplier of your web browser.
