Cookie Policy

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information. Cookies enable the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) 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 set by the website owner (in this case, Video Blog Academy) are called “first party cookies.” Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies.” Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., like advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

Why We Use Cookies

We use first- and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Online Properties. For example, we use cookies to:

• Help us remember your information so you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the site;
• Track user trends and patterns;
• Personalize content and advertisements that you see when you visit the Website;
• Understand and improve how visitors use our Website;
• Measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns;
• Enhance website security;
• Provide social media features.

Types of Cookies We Use

The specific types of first and third party cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described in more detail below:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to browse our Website and use certain features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.
• Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our Website works.
• Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our Website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for, such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
• Targeting or Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.
• Analytics Cookies: We use Google Analytics and other analytics providers to understand how visitors engage with our website. These cookies allow us to collect information about the number of visitors to the website, the pages they visit, and the amount of time they spend on each page. This information helps us improve the user experience and ensure our website meets the needs of our audience.

Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by:

• Browser Controls: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.
• Specific Opt-Out Tools: For some third-party services, like Google Analytics, you can opt-out using specific tools provided by those services. For example, Google provides a browser add-on that allows you to opt-out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites.
• Industry Self-Regulation: You can also learn more about online advertising and privacy at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, or http://www.youronlinechoices.com/. These sites allow you to opt-out of many targeted advertising cookies.

Please note that disabling cookies may affect your experience on our Website. You may be required to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last revised.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us at Contact Us page.