Effective Date: October 22, 2024
The Fact Report (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to respecting your privacy and ensuring transparency about how we collect and use data. This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, and your choices regarding their use.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, smartphone, or tablet) when you visit a website. Cookies allow websites to function efficiently, enhance the user experience, and provide website owners with valuable information.
Cookies may store user preferences, authentication details, and information about browsing behavior. These small files do not personally identify you but can provide insights into how the site is being used.
2. How We Use Cookies
At The Fact Report, we use cookies for several reasons, which include improving the functionality of our website, personalizing user experiences, and analyzing site traffic. The types of cookies we may use include:
Types of Cookies Used:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the basic functioning of our website. They enable core features like security, network management, and accessibility. Without these cookies, certain functions of the site may not work.
- Performance and Analytical Cookies: These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the website by collecting information about visitor behavior. This includes data on page views, time spent on the website, and sources of traffic. We use this data to improve our services and enhance the user experience.
- Functional Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember the choices you make (such as your language preferences or the region you are in) to provide more personalized features.
- Third-Party Cookies: We may embed content from third-party services like YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter, or other social media platforms. These services may place cookies on your device when you interact with their content. Additionally, third-party analytics services (such as Google Analytics) may place cookies to track user behavior and generate anonymized reports.
3. Third-Party Services and Embedded Content
The Fact Report may include embedded content, such as videos from YouTube or social media posts from platforms like Twitter. These third-party services may place cookies on your device, which are subject to their respective privacy and cookie policies. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third-party providers to understand their use of cookies and data.
Some examples of third-party services we use:
- YouTube: Embedded videos may place cookies for video analytics and user preferences.
- Twitter: Embedded tweets may place cookies to track user engagement and interactions.
- Google Analytics: This analytics service helps us track website usage, generate reports, and improve the website. Google Analytics cookies collect anonymous information such as your IP address, browser type, and the pages you visit on our site. More information can be found in Google’s Privacy Policy.
4. Cookie Duration and Retention
Cookies can be classified by their lifespan:
- Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies that are deleted from your device after you close your browser. They help the website function properly during your browsing session.
- Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain on your device for a specified period or until you manually delete them. They are used to remember your preferences or actions on a site over time.
5. Managing and Disabling Cookies
You have the right to manage or disable cookies at any time. Most browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can block or delete cookies by adjusting the browser settings, but please note that disabling essential cookies may affect the functionality of our website.
How to Manage Cookies:
- Google Chrome: Manage cookies in Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox: Manage cookies in Firefox
- Safari: Manage cookies in Safari
- Microsoft Edge: Manage cookies in Edge
Opting Out of Analytics Cookies:
- Google Analytics: You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by using Google’s Opt-out Browser Add-on.
6. Who We Share Your Data With
We may share anonymized or aggregated data collected through cookies with third-party service providers to help us analyze and improve our website. These providers may include:
- Analytics services (e.g., Google Analytics).
- Web hosting providers.
- Embedded content providers (e.g., YouTube, Twitter, Vimeo).
These third-party services have their own privacy policies and use cookies according to their specific guidelines.
7. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Cookie Policy at any time to reflect changes in our use of cookies or legal requirements. When changes are made, the Effective Date at the top of the policy will be updated. We encourage you to review this page regularly to stay informed about how we use cookies.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Cookie Policy, please feel free to contact us.
