This Cookie Policy explains how Tomato Answers uses cookies and similar technologies on https://tomatoanswers.com/: what they are, how we use them, and how you can control them.
What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies — tiny files downloaded to your device — to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We also explain how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, although doing so may downgrade or break certain elements of the site’s functionality.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons, detailed below. In most cases there are no industry-standard options for disabling cookies without also disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave all cookies enabled if you are not sure whether you need them, in case they are used to provide a service you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings in your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites you visit, and will usually also disable certain features of this site.
The Cookies We Set
- Form-related cookies – when you submit data through a form, such as on our contact or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your details for future correspondence.
- Site preferences cookies – to give you a good experience on this site, we provide the ability to set your preferences for how the site runs. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be recalled whenever you interact with a page affected by your preferences.
Third-Party Cookies
In some cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details the third-party cookies you might encounter through this site.
- This site uses Google Analytics, one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web, to help us understand how you use the site and how we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages you visit so we can continue producing engaging content.
- We use adverts to offset the costs of running this site. The Google AdSense service we use to advertise may use a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times a given ad is shown to you. Behavioral advertising cookies may be used to present adverts relevant to you by anonymously tracking your interests.
- We may use affiliate tracking cookies that allow us to see whether visitors reached the site through one of our partners, so that partners can be credited appropriately.
- We also use social media buttons and plugins that let you connect with your social networks. Platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Reddit may set cookies through our site, which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold, as outlined in their respective privacy policies.
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things. As mentioned, if you are not sure whether you need cookies or not, it is usually safer to leave them enabled in case they interact with a feature you use on our site.
If you are still looking for more information, you can contact us.