Automatic Information Collection
Whenever you visit or interact with our website, services, applications, or tools (referred collectively as the 鈥淲ebsite鈥), 海角论坛. (鈥満=锹厶斥) may use cookies for storing information to help provide you with a better experience.
This page is designed to help you understand more about these cookies and our use of them on our Website and in our services, applications and tools. Below is a summary of a some things you should know about our use of cookies.
Our cookies are either necessary for the functioning of our services or help us improve our performance. We use cookies that only remain on your device for as long as you keep your browser active (session) and cookies and similar technologies that remain on your device for a longer period (persistent).You are free to block, delete, or disable these cookies if your device permits you to do so. You can manage your cookies and your cookie preferences in your browser or device settings as indicated in the Adjust Cookies section below.
Where possible, security measures are set in place to prevent unauthorized access to our cookies. A unique identifier ensures that only we and/or our authorized service providers have access to cookie data.
What are cookies?
Like most sites, we use technologies that are essentially small data files placed on your computer, tablet, mobile phone, or other devices (referred to collectively as a 鈥渄evice鈥) that allow us to record certain pieces of information whenever you visit or interact with our Website, services, applications, or tools.
The specific names and types of the cookies we use may change from time to time. In order to help you better understand this Policy and our use of such technologies we have provided the following limited terminology and definitions:
Cookies 鈥 Small text files (typically made up of letters and numbers) placed in the memory of your browser or device when you visit a website or view a message. Cookies allow a website to recognize a particular device or browser. There are several types of cookies:
Session cookies expire at the end of your browser session and allow us to link your actions during that particular browser session.
Persistent cookies are stored on your device in between browser sessions, allowing us to remember your preferences or actions across multiple sites.
First-party cookies are set by the site you are visiting.
Third-party cookies are set by a third party site separate from the site you are visiting.
Cookies can be disabled or removed by tools that are available in most commercial browsers, as described in the Adjust Cookies section below. The preferences for each browser you use will need to be set separately and different browsers offer different functionality and options.
The following cookies are used with our Website, services, applications, or tools (as is subject to change).
Why we use cookies
We use cookies to automatically collect, receive and record information on our server logs from your browser including browsing actions and patterns. 听The information includes your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, operating system and platform, cookie information, the page you requested and test data results. We use cookies as a token to remember you as a user who has logged into our Website.
The Website uses cookies as a token to remember that you are a user who has logged into our Website. 听The Website may include first-party cookies (i.e., cookies that send data directly to 海角论坛 and agents and contractors acting on behalf of 海角论坛, including cookies used to monitor, analyze, and administer the Website). Specifically, we use cookies that are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages on our Website are visited and used by you.
We use cookies to track the number of people who visit our Website, and to collect information about the use of our systems.
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies, as set out in the Adjust Cookies section below.
Any personal information that we collect and store through use of cookies are based on your consent, obtained through a conspicuous disclosure on our Website during your first visit. 听You can withdraw this consent through your browser settings as explained below.
Adjust Cookies
For browser-specific information on how to adjust cookie configurations on the following browsers, please click on the relevant link below:
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If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our Website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
Tracking
Some Web browsers may be configured to send Do Not Track signals to websites, or users may use similar mechanisms, to indicate a user鈥檚 preference that certain web technologies not be used to track the user鈥檚 online activity.
Last reviewed June 1, 2023