Our website (WindowsTechIt.com) uses ‘cookies’; which are small data files that are used as unique identifiers. They are sent from the website’s servers to your computer or mobile phone and stored on your device, and may then be sent back to our website’s servers with updated data as you browse our website.

What are Cookies

Cookies are used to record information about your preferences as you browse our website, which allows us to improve your experience by tailoring the website accordingly. Cookies can also be used to identify you every time you revisit our website.

A ‘session cookie’ will expire at the end of your browsing session once you close your web browser; ‘persistent cookies’ on the other hand have a set expiry date and will be stored on your computer until either this date is reached, or you delete your cookies using your browser settings.

Third-Party Networks and Cookies

Please note that, where we embed content from third-party sites such as  Google, YouTube, you may also have cookies from these third-party websites installed on your device.

WindowsTechIt.com does not control these cookies and you should check the privacy policy of the relevant website for more information.

Please also note that, if you use one of the ‘sharing tools’ on our website to share content using social networks, these social networks may install a cookie on your device.

WindowsTechIt.com does not control these cookies and you should check the privacy policy of the relevant website for more information.

Google Analytics

We include a JS (JavaScript) code to analyze our traffic data. This includes installing the JS from Google. It may install some cookies to gather demographic, location etc kind of information for personalized ads and inventory. This is not harmful and protects your secrecy and privacy. This type of cookies are used for traffic analysis purpose only by us. We do not collect any information as on our site.

Google may collect some information to provide the traffic data relevant to our site.

Google Adsense

These are textual and display ads network shown on our site. This is also from Google. It may install some cookies to show personalized and non-personalized ads related to your gender, country, demographic.  These cookies are installed by Google and its parent companies. We only collect partial revenue for displaying these ads and for other actions.

We are using Ezoic ad platform to serve Adsense ads on the site. It optimizes the placements and user experience based on placeholders and algorithms.

These cookies are not detrimental to secrecy or privacy of an individual. But it is the responsible of the audience (individual) to check the ad you are viewing/clicking and this site takes no responsibility for any harm.

Blocking Cookies

The majority of web browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari etc.) will allow you to block cookies from being installed on your device via your browser settings.

Mobile phone users may have to refer to their handset manual for details on how to block cookies using their mobile browser.

Please be aware that restricting the use of cookies may impact on the functionality of our website.

Deleting Cookies

The majority of web browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari etc.) will allow you to delete selected / all cookies currently installed on your device.

Depending on your browser, further information can be obtained via the following links mentioned above:

Similarly, mobile phone users may have to refer to their handset manual for details on how to delete cookies using their mobile browser.

Please note that this will usually only remove any cookies currently installed on your device; you must also change your browser settings (above) if you wish to prevent cookies being installed in future. Please be aware that deleting cookies already stored on your device may impact on the usability of our website.

For more information on cookies and how they work, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

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