Cookie Policy for Matters Of My Mind

This is the Cookie Policy for Matters Of My Mind, accessible from https://www.mattersofmymind.com.

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies.  Cookies are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, 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 will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored.  However, this 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. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not, in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on 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 that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies. This Cookies Policy was created with the help of the Cookies Policy Generator.

The Cookies We Set

Email Newsletters-Related Cookies

This site offers newsletter or email subscription services. Cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications that might only be valid to subscribed or unsubscribed users.

Surveys-Related Cookies

From time to time, we offer user surveys and questionnaires.  These are offered to provide you with interesting insights, and helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. Other reasons are to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.

Forms Related Cookies

When you submit data through a form, such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

Site Preferences Cookies

We aim to provide you with a great experience on this site.  Therefore, we set your site preferences for an optimal experience. We use cookies to remember and apply your preferences whenever you interact with affected pages.

Third-Party Cookies

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter through this site.

Google Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics.  This is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web.  It helps us understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit. This helps us to continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

Third-Party Analytics

Third-party analytics are used to track and measure the usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit, which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.

Testing

From time to time, we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site.  In addition, it ensures we understand which optimizations our users appreciate the most.

Statistical Analysis

As we sell products we need to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.

Google AdSense

The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you. For more information on Google AdSense, see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.

Advertising

We use adverts to offset the costs of running this site and provide funding for further development. The behavioral advertising cookies used by this site are designed to ensure that we provide you with the most relevant adverts.  This is achieved where possible by anonymously tracking your interests and presenting similar things that may be of interest.

Affiliate Tracking

Several partners advertise on our behalf.  Affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and where applicable allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus to us.  To find out more about our Affiliate partnerships, please refer to our Affiliate Disclosure.

Social Media

We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site.  This allows you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, the following social media sites will set cookies through our site; http://www.facebook.com/mattersofmymind, and https://www.youtube.com/@mattersofmymind.

More Information

Hopefully, this page has clarified things for you.   If there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not, it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.

For more general information on cookies, please read the Cookies Policy article.

However, for more specific information, contact us through our preferred contact method by visiting this link: Contact