Last Updated: September 24, 2025
1. What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, or font size) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
Cookies are essential for the modern internet, helping to provide a smoother, more personalized browsing experience.
2. How We Use Cookies
At PRESSDAY, we use cookies for several important reasons:
- To ensure our website functions correctly.
- To understand how our visitors interact with our content, which helps us improve our articles and user experience.
- To serve relevant advertisements that help fund our website and keep our content free for everyone.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
We use a mix of first-party and third-party cookies, which can be categorized as follows:
a) Strictly Necessary Cookies These cookies are essential for you to browse our website and use its features. For example, we use a cookie to remember your consent choices regarding other cookies. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information and cannot be turned off in our systems.
b) Performance and Analytics Cookies These cookies allow us to collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are most popular and how visitors move around the site. This data helps us improve how our website works.
- Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to analyze our website traffic. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies and creates aggregated, anonymous reports. The information collected is not used to identify you personally.
c) Advertising and Targeting Cookies These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and to help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission.
- Google AdSense: We use Google AdSense to display ads on our site. AdSense uses cookies, including the DoubleClick DART cookie, to serve personalized ads based on your visit to our site and other sites on the internet. These cookies track your browsing habits to show you ads that are likely to be of interest to you.
4. How to Manage Your Cookies
You have full control over the cookies used on our site and can manage your preferences at any time. Here’s how:
a) Our Cookie Consent Banner The primary way to control non-essential cookies on our site is through the cookie consent banner that appears when you first visit. You can accept, reject, or customize your cookie preferences. You can change your settings at any time.
b) Browser Settings Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can set your browser to block cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. Please note that if you block all cookies (including essential ones), you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
You can find out more about how to manage cookies on popular browsers here:
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
To opt out of personalized advertising from Google, visit: https://adssettings.google.com
5. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies.
6. How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us at: Email: contact@pressday.co.uk