What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies allow websites to remember information about your visit, like your preferred language and other settings. This can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you.
How Online Income Solutions Uses Cookies
At Online Income Solutions, we use cookies for several reasons, including:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable you to navigate the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our website works.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. Functionality cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
- Targeting or Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.
- Analytics Cookies: We use third-party analytics services, such as Google Analytics, to help us understand how visitors interact with our website. These services use cookies to collect information about your use of the website, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages visited, and the dates/times of your visits. We use this information to analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movements around the site, and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
Types of Cookies We Use
Here's a breakdown of the specific types of cookies you might encounter on Online Income Solutions:
- Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave our site.
- Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).
- First-Party Cookies: These cookies are set by the website you are visiting (in this case, Online Income Solutions).
- Third-Party Cookies: These cookies are set by a domain other than that of the website you are visiting. They are typically used for advertising and tracking purposes.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies. Here are several ways you can manage your cookie preferences:
- Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can configure your browser to block all cookies, accept only certain types of cookies, or prompt you each time a website tries to set a cookie. Please note that blocking all cookies may impact your ability to access certain features of our website. Consult your browser's help documentation for instructions on how to manage cookies.
- Cookie Consent Tools: Many websites, including Online Income Solutions, use cookie consent tools that allow you to customize your cookie preferences. These tools typically provide a granular level of control, allowing you to opt-in or opt-out of specific categories of cookies.
- Third-Party Opt-Outs: For targeting or advertising cookies, you can often opt-out directly through the advertising networks or platforms that set the cookies. For example, Google provides a tool to manage your advertising preferences at https://adssettings.google.com/ .
Specific Cookies Used on Online Income Solutions
To provide you with a clearer understanding, here are examples of the specific cookies we may use and their purposes:
- Google Analytics Cookies (_ga, _gid, _gat): These cookies are used to collect information about website usage, such as page views, session duration, and user interactions. We use this data to analyze website traffic and improve the user experience.
- Session ID Cookie (PHPSESSID): This cookie is essential for maintaining your session while you browse our website. It is automatically deleted when you close your browser.
- Cookie Consent Cookie (cookie_consent): This cookie records your cookie preferences so that we can respect your choices on future visits.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We will post any changes to this Cookie Policy on our website and encourage you to review it periodically. By continuing to use our website after we post any changes, you agree to the terms of the updated Cookie Policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our Cookie Policy, please do not hesitate to contact us through our Contact page. We value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information.
For further information on our privacy practices, please refer to our Privacy Policy .