What is a cookie?
A cookie is that data or small file that is sent to your browser meant to be stored on your computer’s hard drive or any digital devices. It contains information related to the user. Placed on your device, it allows us to remember and recognize you. We use cookies intending to simply ensure that every visitor sees a pop form of subscription once. Visitors will notice the popup window every time they visit if they decline to accept cookies. Whenever our readers visit our websites, we may collect information from them automatically through cookies or any other similar technology spanning pixel, tag, or other web beacon.
How and why do we use cookies?
We make use of cookies in an array of ways to enhance your experience on our website, including
- Keeping you signed in
- Gaining insights into how you use our site.
- Presenting relevant journalism to you.
- Putting forward relevant products and services offered by The Hark Ink to you
- Working seamlessly with partners to deliver relevant advertising to you. Ultimately, this enables us to bring out the journalism that you read on our sites.
Types of Cookies collected by us
We majorly use four types of cookies. They include Essential, Performance, Functionality and Advertising. Essential Cookies are those cookies that are crucial to offering you with services as per your request. Performance Cookies measure how frequent you visit our site and how you engage with our journalism. This enables us to enhance the user experience of our website. Functionality Cookies are meant to remember you and recognize you in terms of your preferences when you return to our website to ultimately impart you with a bespoke journalism experience. Advertising Cookies are used to accumulate information related to your visit to our website. This encompasses your browser information, the content you have viewed, and the links you have followed, your IP address information and more. We use IP addresses to analyze trends related to the visitors on the site alone. They are not linked with personally identifiable information by any means.
Cookies that are collected and are used by The Hark Ink are referred to as “first-party cookies”. Cookies that are collected and are used by our varied partners are referred to as “third-party cookies”