Cookie Policy Effective date: 2024-10-30
I, Matthew Brian Plutschack (“I”, “me”, “my” or "mine") understand that your privacy is important to you and are committed to being transparent about the technologies I use. This Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies (collectively “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”) may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use or visit any website or app that posts a link to this Policy (collectively, “the Sites”). This Cookie Policy should be read together with my Privacy Policy and my Terms and Conditions.
A cookie is a small text file that can be stored on and accessed from your device when you visit one of my Sites, to the extent you agree. Other tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place small data files on your devices or monitor your website activity to enable me to collect information about how you use my Sites. This allows my Sites to recognize your device from those of other users of the Sites. The information provided below about cookies also applies to these other tracking technologies. You can find more information at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.
I use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to identify you and your interests, remember your preferences, and track your use of my Sites. I also use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to control access to certain content on my Sites, protect the Sites, and to process any requests that you make of me.
“First-party Cookies” are cookies that belong to me and that I place on your device. “Third-party Cookies” are cookies that another party places on your device through my Site. I may use third-party service providers to send emails to users who have provided me with their contact information. To help measure and improve the effectiveness of my email communications, and/or to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on, the third-party service providers may place Cookies on the devices of these users.
Depending on the Site, I use the following types of cookies:
Persistent Cookies: I use persistent Cookies to improve your experience of using the Sites. This includes recording your acceptance of my Cookie Policy to remove the cookie message which first appears when you use the Sites.
Session Cookies: Session Cookies are temporary and deleted from your machine when your web browser closes. I use session Cookies to help track internet usage as described above.
Security Cookies: These cookies, such as SID, HSID, and __Secure- prefixed cookies, help with website security and user authentication.
You may refuse to accept browser Cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of the Sites. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, my system will issue Cookies when you direct your browser to my Sites.
The data collected by the Sites and/or through Cookies that may be placed on your computer will not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes mentioned above. In any event, such information will not be kept for longer than one year.
Strictly Necessary/Technical
These Cookies are necessary to allow me to operate my Sites so you may access them as requested. They also enable me to remember your previous actions within the same browsing session and secure my Sites.
Analytical/Performance
These Cookies are used by me or third-party service providers to analyze how the Sites are used and how they are performing. For example, these Cookies track what pages are most frequently visited, and from what locations my visitors come from.
Functionality
These Cookies let me operate the Sites in accordance with the choices you make. They permit me to "remember" you between visits.
Third-Party Advertising
These Cookies collect information about your activities on these and other sites to provide you targeted advertising. The third-party service providers that generate these Cookies, such as Google (NID, APISID), have their own privacy policies and may use their Cookies to target advertising to you on other websites.
If you do not want Cookies to be dropped on your device, you can adjust the setting of your Internet browser to reject the setting of all or some Cookies and to alert you when a Cookie is placed on your device. For further information about how to do so, please refer to your browser ‘help’ / ‘tool’ or ‘edit’ section or see www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all Cookies (including strictly necessary Cookies), you may not be able to access or use all parts or functionalities of my Sites.
If you want to remove previously-stored Cookies, you can manually delete the Cookies at any time. However, this will not prevent the Sites from placing further Cookies on your device unless and until you adjust your Internet browser setting as described above.
We may collect information about whether you open or click any links in the communications that I send to you through web beacons. A web beacon is a graphic image that, alone or in conjunction with cookies, compiles information about your usage of or interaction with my website or email.
You may avoid web beacons by configuring your email reader program to disable the functionality that enables remote images to load and by refraining from clicking on any links in email messages.
If you have any other questions about my Cookie Policy, please contact me at:
Matthew Brian Plutschack
Bergmannstraße 97
10961 Berlin
Germany
Privacy@mbp-rnc.com
To determine which first-party cookies are used on your Google Sites, you can use browser developer tools to inspect cookies while navigating through your site. Additionally, Google provides information on cookie usage for its services, which can help in identifying and listing them.
Last Updated: 2024-10-30