Ezoic Services

Ezoic Services
This website uses the services of Ezoic Inc. (“Ezoic”), including to manage third-party interest-based advertising. Ezoic may employ a variety of technologies on this website, including tools to serve content, display advertisements and enable advertising to visitors of this website, which may utilize first and third-party cookies.
A cookie is a small text file sent to your device by a web server that enables the website to remember information about your browsing activity. First-party cookies are created by the site you are visiting, while third-party cookies are set by domains other than the one you're visiting. Ezoic and our partners may place third-party cookies, tags, beacons, pixels, and similar technologies to monitor interactions with advertisements and optimize ad targeting. Please note that disabling cookies may limit access to certain content and features on the website, and rejecting cookies does not eliminate advertisements but will result in non-personalized advertising. You can find more information about cookies and how to manage them here.
The following information may be collected, used, and stored in a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP address
  • Operating system type and version
  • Device type
  • Language preferences
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in a hashed or encrypted form)
Ezoic and its partners may use this data in combination with information that has been independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements across various platforms and websites. Ezoic’s partners may also gather additional data, such as unique IDs, advertising IDs, geolocation data, usage data, device information, traffic data, referral sources, and interactions between users and websites or advertisements, to create audience segments for targeted advertising across different devices, browsers, and apps. You can find more information about interest-based advertising and how to manage them here.
You can view Ezoic’s privacy policy here, or for additional information about Ezoic’s advertising and other partners, you can view Ezoic’s advertising partners here.

Privacy Policy

We use Ezoic to provide personalization and analytic services on this website, as such Ezoic’s privacy policy is in effect and can be reviewed here.

At Cooke Fast, safeguarding your privacy is a top priority. This privacy commitment outlines how we gather, utilize, disclose, transfer, and store your data. Please take a moment to acquaint yourself with our practices concerning the protection of personal information, and feel free to reach out if you have any queries.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect information provided in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string for spam detection purposes.

An anonymized string, generated from your email address (referred to as a hash), may be shared with the Gravatar service to check if you use it. The Gravatar service’s privacy policy is accessible here: Gravatar Privacy Policy. Upon comment approval, your profile picture becomes publicly visible in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, please refrain from including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract location data from images.

Cookies

For your convenience, if you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies last for one year, eliminating the need to re-enter your details when leaving another comment.

Upon visiting our login page, a temporary cookie is set to assess your browser’s acceptance of cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded upon browser closure.

Upon login, several cookies are established to retain your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies persist for two days, while screen options cookies last for a year. Opting for “Remember Me” allows your login to endure for two weeks. Logging out removes the login cookies.

When editing or publishing an article, an additional cookie is saved in your browser, revealing the post ID of the edited article. This cookie expires after 1 day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may contain embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles) that behaves similarly to a visitor having visited the other website.

These external websites may collect data, employ cookies, incorporate third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with embedded content, especially if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Data Sharing

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Data Retention Duration

Comments, including metadata, are retained indefinitely to facilitate automatic approval of follow-up comments.

For registered users, we store the personal information provided in their user profile. Users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except for their username, which cannot be changed. Website administrators also have access to and can edit this information.

Your Data Rights

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request an exported file of your personal data, including any information you’ve provided. Additionally, you can request the deletion of any personal data we hold about you. Note that certain data must be retained for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Data Transmission

Visitor comments may undergo automated spam detection services.