Cookie policy

This policy explains how I use cookies – technology to make the site work or track what you are doing when you visit it. 

About cookies

Cookies are bits of data stored on your device when you visit a website.

They collect personal information that can directly or indirectly identify you as an individual.

Cookies also collect data about how you use websites, including:

  • Your IP address.
  • Your location.
  • Details about your device, browser and operating system.
  • The pages and files you have accessed.
  • The time of the access.
  • Session details, such as the sequence of pages visited and time spent on each page.

Your browser will store multiple cookies from the websites you visit. 

Some cookies are temporary and are deleted when you end your browsing session. Others will remain on your device until you remove them or they expire, which can be anything from minutes to years.

If you were asked to give consent for cookies, you can update your preferences at any time, including removing your consent.

Most cookies are provided by third-party services. These services may access the cookies they manage to build a wider picture of your interests and online behaviour. 

How this site uses cookies

This site collects five types of cookie: 

  • Necessary: needed to make the site work as intended. They do not store any personally identifiable data. You cannot refuse permission for them. 
  • Functional: Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.
  • Experience: used to improve your experience and enable interactions with external content, networks and platforms. You can refuse permission for them.
  • Analytics: used to understand how you are interacting with the site, including how you got there, which pages you visited and what you did on them. Will also include data gathered about who you are and what else you have been doing on the internet.
  • Advertisement: used to provide you with and analyse custom ads, based on previously visited pages. 

This site has third-party cookies from services I use. Since I do not fully control the use of third-party cookies, this policy will only broadly indicate how they are used. For details, visit the linked pages.

Necessary

Third party cookies

  • Google Hosted Libraries is a web traffic management service provided by Google LLC. Data is processed in the United States. Data being processed: cookies and usage data. For details, visit Google’s privacy policy.
  • Google Tag Manager is a tag management service provided by Google LLC. Data is processed in the United States. Data being processed: cookies and usage data. For details, visit Google’s partner policy, business data page and privacy policy.

Experience

Third party cookies

  • Google Fonts is a typeface service provided by Google LLC. Data is processed in the United States. Data being processed: cookies and usage data. For details, visit Google’s privacy policy.

Measurement

Third party cookies

Google Analytics 4 is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC. It uses the data collected to track and analyse how this site is being used. It may also use the data to inform Google’s other services, including its advertising network. Data is processed in the United States. Data being processed: number of users, session statistics, cookies and usage data. Cookie duration: _ga: 2 years and _ga_*: 2 years. For details, visit Google’s: 

Google Analytics Advertising Reporting Features is provided by Google LLC. It collects additional information from the DoubleClick cookie. It allows me to gather data about your behaviour and interests (traffic and ad interaction) and, if enabled, demographics (age and gender). Data is processed in the United States. Data being processed: cookies, unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example) and various types of data as specified in the privacy policy of the service. Cookie duration: IDE: 2 years, _gcl_*: 3 months and test_cookie: 15 minutes. For details, visit Google’s: 

User ID extension for Google Analytics is provided by Google LLC. It is used to more accurately track what you do when browsing with your device. It doesn’t allow Google to personally identify an individual or permanently identify a particular device. It may make it possible to connect data from Google Analytics with other data. Data is processed in the United States.  Data being processed: cookies. For details, visit Google’s:

How to manage preferences and consent

You can refuse consent for most cookies on this site. This may mean that the site does not work as intended.

If you have given consent for this site to use cookies, you can update your permissions using the cookie wall. 

You can also use your browser to check which cookies and related tracking technology have been set on your device. Your browser will also let you block and clear cookies.

Find browser setting advice for your browser:

Owner and data controller

Latest update: April 2025

You can also read the privacy policy for Useful Words.