The Urban Magazine: Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy tells you how The Urban Magazine (that’s “we”) purpose cookies and related technologies when you visit our website, social media pages, or use our services. This policy clarifies what these technologies are, why we use them, and your authority to control their use.
We support you to read this policy along with our Privacy Policy to fully discern how we handle your personal data.
1. What Are Cookies and Similar Technologies?
Cookies are small text files along with letters and numbers that are downloaded and saved on your device (computer, smartphone, or tablet) when you visit our website. They perform as a memory for the website, permitting it to remember you and your liking for a period of time.
Similar Technologies
Besides cookies, we also use similar technologies to store or access information on your device. These may include:
- Pixels (or Web Beacons): Small graphic files used to track user behavior, measure site conversions, and see if you have opened an email from us.
- Local Storage: A technology that saves data in your device’s cache to help content load faster.
- Scripts: Small computer programs fixed in websites that give them extra functionality, such as social sharing buttons.
In this policy, we refer to all these technologies simply as “cookies” for easier reading.
2. How The Urban Magazine Uses Cookies?
Here are the main reasons we use cookies:
- To Make the Website Work (Strictly Necessary): These are required cookies that let you move around the website and use its easy features, such as staying log in, subscriptions or visiting private pages.
- To Improve Performance (Analytics): We use these to see how readers use our website, which includes checking which pages are popular, which are confusing, and if you find any errors. This information helps us fix errors and improve your experience.
- Example: We use Google Analytics for this purpose.
- To Personalize Your Experience (Functionality): These cookies recollect your choice, such as the font size you chose, or your geographical location, so we can display you local news or content specialized to you.
- To Show Relevant Ads (Advertising and Targeting): Because we count on ads to keep our magazine free for you, these cookies follow your interests depends on your browsing patterns. This authorizes us and our advertising partners (including Google AdSense) to show you ads that are appropriate to what you like.
3. What Types of Cookies Do We Use?
We use two main types of cookies based on who sets them:
- First-Party Cookies: These are cookies set directly by The Urban Magazine when you visit our site. They are essential for core functions.
- Third-Party Cookies: These are set by parties other than The Urban Magazine, such as our advertising and analytics partners (like Google). We use these to analyze website traffic and deliver relevant ads.
We organize the purpose of these cookies into four main groups:
A. Cookies Needed to Run the Site
These cookies are significant for our website to run accurately. They allow identical features you request, such as page review, reaching secure areas of the site (like your subscriber account), and maintaining your logged-in status.
- Purpose: To keep you signed in and remember your cookie consent choice.
- Control: These cannot be switched off, as doing so would break core website functionality.
B. Performance and Analytics Cookies
These cookies support us know how you use our website. They save information about how frequently you visit our site, which pages you look at most, and if you face any errors. This data is generally unsigned and helps us improve our content and the aggregate user experience.
- Example: Google Analytics uses these cookies to trace visitor metrics and traffic sources.
- Purpose: To quantify site performance and gather statistical information for improvements.
C. Functionality Cookies
Functionality cookies allow our website to recall choices you have made, which provides you with a more unique experience.
- Purpose: To recall your preferred settings, such as language preference, location (to show you relevant local news), or saved layouts.
- Benefit: They save you time and make your next visit more customized to your needs.
D. Advertising and Targeting Cookies
These cookies are apply to save information with respect to your browsing patterns and interests across various websites. We used this data to deliver advertising that is related to you and your interests. They support us in operating our advertising campaigns and measuring their impact.
- Purpose: To trace the effectiveness of ads and show you relevant advertising (known as personalized or interest-based advertising).
- Third Parties: These are often set by third-party advertising partners like Google AdSense.
4. Third-Party Partners and Cookies
We accept the following third-party services to place cookies on your device for their own purposes. They have their own privacy and cookie policies, which we motivate you to review.
- Google Analytics: For calculating website performance and audience insights.
- Google AdSense: To provide targeted advertisements to fund our journalism.
- Social Media Platforms (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube): These cookies are present through widgets like ‘Like’ buttons or enclosed videos, allowing you to easily interact with our content and allowing these platforms to trace your activity.
5. How to Manage and Control Cookies
You have the power to accept or reject cookies. When you first visit our site, you are given the option to select your preferences.
You can maintain your cookie choices at any time through:
A. Our Privacy Settings Link
You can habitually find a “Privacy Settings” or “Manage Consent” link in the footer of our website. By clicking this link, you can choose which extra cookies you want to allow (like Performance, Functionality, or Advertising).
B. Your Web Browser Settings
The most successful way to manage or avoid cookies is to modify the settings within your web browser. Be careful that disabling cookies may repercussion the functionality of our site, and a few features could stop working.
Here are the keys for common browsers:
- In Chrome: Use Settings to block third-party cookies.
- In Firefox: Use Preferences to set up upgraded tracking security.
- In Safari: Use Preferences to disable cross-site tracking.
6. Contact Us
If you have any probes about our use of cookies or this policy, please contact us.
7. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to display changes in our practices or for legal and official reasons. We will notify you of any major changes by posting the new policy on this page. Please revisit this page constantly to stay informed.
