What a cookie is

A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep, so that the site can recognise the same browser next time. It can also be used to follow a browser across different sites, which is what advertising cookies usually do.

What this site does today

Advertising cookies

The advertising on this site today is house advertising, meaning it belongs to our own group, and the creative is served from this same server, so it sets nothing. When an advertiser's creative is placed, it may set a cookie to count how many times it was seen. When that happens, this page will be updated to name the advertiser and what the cookie is for, before the advertisement goes live, and readers in the European Union and the United Kingdom will be asked for consent first, because the law there requires it.

If a third party advertising network is ever used, it will be named here too, with a link to its own policy, and consent will be asked before anything is set.

The installed app

If you install this site as an app, it keeps copies of the pages and the pictures on your own device so that it opens quickly and works with a poor connection. That is your browser's storage, not a cookie, and it never leaves your device. Clearing the site's data, or removing the app, removes it.

What you can do about cookies in general

• Every browser lets you see the cookies a site has stored and delete them.
• Every browser lets you block third party cookies, which is the setting that stops most advertising cookies.
• Private or incognito windows discard cookies when you close them.

Blocking cookies does not break this site, because it does not depend on any.

Questions

Write to hello@seoninjas.co.za if anything here is unclear, or if you want to know whether a particular advertisement has set anything.