Last Updated: June 7, 2025
Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how InformativePicks.com (“we,” “us,” or “our”) uses them on our website, https://www.informativepicks.com (“Site”), and what choices you have about their use.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files your computer or mobile device places when you visit a website. Websites widely use them to work effectively and to give information to their owners. Additionally, these files can remember your preferences, track your browse habits, and help show personalized content or advertisements.
Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies stay on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline. Session cookies remove as soon as you close your web browser.
2. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for several reasons on InformativePicks.com:
- To Make Our Site Work: Essential cookies guarantee our Site functions correctly. They allow basic features like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. Without these, the website can’t operate properly.
- To Analyze Site Performance: Performance and analytics cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources. This helps us measure and improve our Site’s performance. They also help us know which pages are most and least popular, and how visitors move around the Site.
- To Remember Your Preferences: Functionality cookies allow the website to offer enhanced functionality and personalization. For example, they remember your choices (like language or region) or allow comments.
- For Advertising: Our advertising partners set advertising cookies through our Site. These companies use them to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other sites. They do not directly store personal information but instead uniquely find your browser and internet device.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
InformativePicks.com uses the next types of cookies:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for you to browse the website. They allow you to use its features, like accessing secure areas of the site. We set these only in response to your actions that ask for services. These services include setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms.
- Performance and Analytics Cookies (e.g., Google Analytics): These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website—for instance, which pages visitors most often visit, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and thus anonymous. We use this information to improve how our website works.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make. Examples include your username, language, or the region you are in. They offer more personalized features.
- Advertising/Targeting Cookies (e.g., Google AdSense): We use these cookies to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. We also use them to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. They help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. Advertising networks usually place them with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website, and this information then moves to other organizations, like advertisers.
4. Third-Party Cookies
When you use our Site, third parties also place cookies. These include:
- Google AdSense: As an advertising partner, Google AdSense uses cookies (like the DoubleClick cookie) to serve ads on our Site. Google can serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Site. Its partners can also use this information to serve ads based on visits to other sites on the Internet.
- Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our website works. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect anonymous information about your interactions with the Site.
- Other Ad Networks/Vendors: We partner with other third-party vendors and ad networks. These third parties place cookies on your device to help them serve relevant ads and analyze advertising effectiveness.
We do not control the practices of these third-party services. We encourage you to visit their websites for their respective privacy policies and cookie policies.
5. Your Choices and Managing Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by:
- Cookie Consent Tool: For users in regions requiring explicit consent (e.g., EU/EEA), our Site uses a Consent Management Platform (CMP). This lets you manage your cookie preferences when you first visit the Site. You can manage them anytime. Click the “Cookie Settings” or similar button. This button is usually found in our footer.
- Browser Settings: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. Most browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences in their settings. But, if you choose to reject cookies, you can still use our Site. This choice restricts your access to some functionality and areas of our Site. The method for doing this varies by browser. Typically, you find these settings in your browser’s “Options” or “Preferences” menu.
- Opt-out of Personalized Advertising:
- To opt-out of personalized advertising from Google, visit Ads Settings.
- Alternatively, you can opt-out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
- For mobile apps, you can reset your advertising ID in your device settings. You can also opt out of ads tracking through your device settings.
6. Changes to This Cookies Policy
We update our Cookies Policy periodically. When we do, we’ll inform you of any changes by posting the new Cookies Policy on this page. We’ll also update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this policy. Hence, we suggest you to review this Cookies Policy periodically for any changes.
7. More Information
For more information about how we collect, use, and share your Personal Data, please read our full Privacy Policy.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us:
- By email: privacy@informativepicks.com or info@informativepicks.com
- By visiting our Contact Us page