Cookie Policy
Last Updated: January 15, 2025
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to the website owners.
Cookies allow websites to recognize your device and remember certain information about your visits, such as your preferred language and other settings. This can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you.
How We Use Cookies
The Dev Insights uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience, analyze site traffic, and serve personalized advertisements. We use both first-party and third-party cookies for various purposes.
Types of Cookies We Use
1. Essential Cookies
Purpose: These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly.
Examples: Session cookies, security cookies, load balancing cookies
Duration: Session or persistent
Essential cookies cannot be disabled as they are required for the basic functionality of the website.
2. Analytics Cookies
Purpose: These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
Examples: Google Analytics cookies
Information Collected:
- Pages visited
- Time spent on each page
- Browser type and version
- Device type
- Geographic location (country/city level)
- Traffic sources
Duration: Up to 2 years
3. Advertising Cookies (Google AdSense)
Purpose: These cookies are used to serve personalized advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests.
Third-Party Provider: Google AdSense and its advertising partners
How They Work:
- Track your browsing behavior across different websites
- Build a profile of your interests
- Display ads based on your browsing history
- Measure ad performance and effectiveness
- Prevent the same ads from continuously reappearing
Duration: Varies (typically up to 24 months)
Google and its partners use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website and other websites on the Internet.
4. Functionality Cookies
Purpose: These cookies enable enhanced functionality and personalization, such as remembering your preferences.
Examples: Language preferences, theme selection, font size preferences
Duration: Persistent (varies by function)
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
Opt-Out of Personalized Advertising
You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting:
- Google Ads Settings - Manage your Google advertising preferences
- Digital Advertising Alliance - Opt out of interest-based advertising
- Network Advertising Initiative - Control online behavioral advertising
Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can:
- Block all cookies
- Block third-party cookies only
- Delete cookies after each browsing session
- Accept all cookies
Please note that blocking all cookies may impact your experience on our website and prevent you from using certain features.
Browser-Specific Instructions
- Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data
- Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
- Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data
- Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics and deliver advertisements. These third parties may use cookies to:
- Collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites
- Use this information to provide advertising tailored to your interests
- Measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns
Google AdSense Cookies
Google uses cookies to help serve ads displayed on our website. These cookies enable Google and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to our site and other sites on the Internet.
For more information about Google's advertising practices, visit: Google Advertising & Privacy
Cookie Consent
By continuing to use The Dev Insights, you consent to our use of cookies as described in this Cookie Policy. If you do not agree to our use of cookies, you should change your browser settings accordingly or discontinue use of our website.
Updates to This 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 will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Cookie Policy, please contact us:
- By email: info@thedevinsights.com
- By visiting our contact page: Contact Us