This cookie policy applies to Alaikas.com, a free health and medical information website. It should be read together with our privacy policy, which explains in more detail how we handle personal information.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website saves on your computer, phone or tablet when you visit. They let a site remember information about your visit, such as your preferences, or help the site owner understand how pages are used.
Cookies can be:
- First-party cookies: set by the website you are visiting.
- Third-party cookies: set by another service that the website uses, such as an analytics provider.
- Session cookies: deleted when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies: stored on your device until they expire or you delete them.
Similar technologies, such as local storage and tracking pixels, work in comparable ways. In this policy, “cookies” covers these technologies too.
How Alaikas.com Uses Cookies
Alaikas.com is a static website. You do not need to create an account or log in, and our guides can be read in full without any cookies at all.
At the moment we do not set advertising or social media cookies. We may, in the future, use cookies or privacy-friendly analytics tools to understand which guides readers find most useful so that we can improve our content.
| Type of cookie | What it does | Do we use it? |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Keeps basic website features working | Not currently required |
| Analytics | Counts visits and shows which pages are popular, usually in aggregate | Possibly in the future, with consent where the law requires it |
| Advertising | Tracks browsing to show targeted ads | No |
| Social media | Lets social networks track visits for sharing features | No |
Third-Party Services
Some pages load resources from trusted third parties to display correctly. For example, our fonts are delivered by Google Fonts. According to Google’s Fonts privacy FAQ, the Google Fonts service does not set cookies, although your browser shares standard technical information, such as your IP address, when it requests the font files.
When you follow a link from one of our guides to an external website, such as a public-health organization, that website’s own cookie policy applies.
Your Choices and Consent
If we introduce non-essential cookies, such as analytics, we will update this page, name the service we use and, where required by law, ask for your consent before those cookies are set. You will be able to withdraw your consent at any time.
How to Control Cookies in Your Browser
You are always in control of cookies. Most browsers allow you to:
- See which cookies are stored and delete them individually
- Block cookies from all websites or from specific websites
- Block third-party cookies only
- Clear all cookies automatically when you close the browser
- Browse in a private or incognito window
You can usually find these options in your browser’s settings under “Privacy” or “Security.” For step-by-step instructions for each browser, visit AboutCookies.org. Blocking cookies will not stop you from reading any guide on Alaikas.com.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this cookie policy when we add or change the tools we use. When we do, we will change the “last updated” date at the top of this page.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this cookie policy, please use our contact page and the team will get back to you.