Cookie Policy
Last Updated: April 18, 2025
Introduction
PT Reference ("we," "our," or "us") uses cookies on our website ptreference.com (the "Website"). This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, your choices regarding cookies, and further information about cookies.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Website or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Website more useful to you.
Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
How PT Reference Uses Cookies
When you use and access the Website, we may place a number of cookie files in your web browser. We use cookies for the following purposes:
- Essential cookies: To enable basic functions of the Website to work properly.
- Analytics cookies: To analyze how visitors use our Website and monitor Website performance. These cookies help us to identify and fix errors.
- Advertising cookies: To deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests. These are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. These are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission.
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Website and deliver advertisements on and through the Website.
Google AdSense
Our Website uses Google AdSense, a service that delivers advertisements. Google AdSense uses various types of cookies to make advertising more effective, including:
- Advertising cookies (such as '_gads', 'IDE', 'DSID', 'FLC', 'AID', 'TAID'): These cookies are used to show relevant ads to visitors and measure interactions with the ads. They also help limit the number of times you see an ad and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
- Personalization cookies: These cookies allow the service to remember your preferences and show personalized ads based on your past activity on our Website and other sites.
- Conversion cookies: These help advertisers determine how many times people who click on their ads end up taking an action like making a purchase.
- Measurement cookies: These cookies collect information about your interactions with our ads to help us measure ad performance and improve our services.
Google AdSense may use the DoubleClick cookie (DART cookie) to serve ads based on your visit to our Website and other sites on the Internet. The DoubleClick cookie enables Google and its partners to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy. You can also manage your Google ad personalization preferences or opt out of personalized ads by visiting Google Ad Settings.
For more information about the cookies used by Google AdSense, please visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies.
Analytics
We may use analytics services that use cookies to track and analyze how users interact with our Website. This helps us improve our Website's functionality and user experience.
Your Choices Regarding Cookies
If you prefer to avoid the use of cookies on the Website, first you must disable the use of cookies in your browser and then delete the cookies saved in your browser associated with this website. You may use this option for preventing the use of cookies at any time.
If you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Website and some features may not function properly.
If you'd like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser:
- For Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
- For Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox
- For Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471
- For Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/delete-cookies-in-microsoft-edge
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Cookie Policy periodically for any changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Cookie Policy, please contact us at:
Email: support@ptreference.com