This policy explains how Minute Readers uses cookies and your related choices. For more information on other ways we collect and use information from you and your use of our [service/website/application], please see our Privacy Policy. In this policy, we use the term “cookies” to refer to any applicable tracking technologies described herein.

What Are Cookies?

  • Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device to help websites and mobile apps remember things about you. Session-based cookies last only while your browser is open and are automatically deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies last until you or your browser delete them or until they expire. To learn more about cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
  • Pixel Tags (also known as web beacons or clear GIFs) are transparent images, iFrames, or JavaScript placed on websites or in marketing emails. They’re used to better understand how you interact with such websites or emails.
  • Social Media Features, such as the Facebook “like” button, may collect your IP address and which page you are visiting on a website, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing the relevant Social Media Features.
  • Single Sign-on allows you to log in to certain websites or mobile applications using sign-in services provided by third parties, such as Facebook or Google. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign-up form.

How We Use Cookies?

The cookies we use can be classified into one of the following categories:

  • Strictly Necessary cookies: These cookies enable you to use the website’s features, such as being able to move from page to page. These cookies are also used to remember information that you enter on forms. Without these necessary cookies, certain services on our website will not be possible and our site will not perform as smoothly as it should.
  • Security cookies: We use these cookies to help identify and prevent security risks.
  • Performance and Analytics cookies: We use these cookies to collect information about the use of our website to help improve the way the website works.
  • Functionality and Preference cookies: We use these cookies to remember the choices you make such as which language you prefer and to provide you with personalized features.
  • Targeting and Advertising cookies: We use these cookies in order to deliver you ads that are more relevant to you and your interests, by remembering information such as what you looked at on our site and to track the performance of these ads.

What Cookies We Use?

Site Preferences Cookies – In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we might need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.

Third-Party Cookies – In some special cases we might also use cookies provided by trusted third parties which you might encounter through this site. We might use the following third-party cookies:

  • This site might use 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.
  • Third-party analytics are used to track and measure the usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.
  • From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimizations our users appreciate the most.
  • The Google AdSense service we might 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.
  • We might use adverts to offset the costs of running this site and provide funding for further development. The behavioral advertising cookies used by this site are designed to ensure that we provide you with the most relevant adverts where possible by anonymously tracking your interests and presenting similar things that may be of interest.
  • 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.
  • 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 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.

Your Choices

Strictly Necessary Cookies – Because these cookies are essential to operate our website, there is no option to opt out of these cookies.

Targeting and Advertising Cookies

You can opt out of interest-based targeting provided by participating ad servers through the Network Advertising Initiative at www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp or the Digital Advertising Alliance at www.aboutads.info/

You may be able to change your device settings (on your iPhone, iPad, or Android) to control whether you see online interest-based ads

You can opt out of third-party tracking technologies by following the instructions provided by each third-party service provider in its privacy policy listed above in Section 3.

You can learn more about your options by visiting www.youradchoices.com or www.youradchoices.eu

Other Cookies

You can follow the instructions provided by your website or mobile browser (usually located within the “Help”, “Tools” or “Edit” facility) to modify your cookie settings.

You can opt out of third-party tracking technologies by following the instructions provided by each third-party service provider in its privacy policy listed above in Section 3.

Do Not Track

We do not currently commit to responding to your browser’s ‘Do Not Track’ signals with respect to our websites, in part, because no common industry standard for ‘Do Not Track’ has been adopted by regulators, including no consistent standard of interpreting a user’s intent. We are committed to monitoring the developments around ‘Do Not Track’ and the implementation of a standard.

Changes To This Cookies Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. We encourage you to periodically review this Cookie Policy to stay informed about our use of cookies, the information we collect via cookies, and any updates in relation thereto. If we make any changes to this Cookie Policy that significantly impact the way we use cookies, we will endeavor to provide you with notice in advance of such change by highlighting the change on our website. Your continued use of our website constitutes your agreement to this Cookie Policy and any updates.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please visit our contact page or email us at contact@minutereaders.com.