Privacy Policy for ars-technica.tech website
Your privacy as a visitor is of great importance to us, and the privacy policy contained in this document outlines the types of personal information collected by the ars-technica.tech website and how this information is used.
We at ars-technica.tech use Google ads as an external financial supporter, and therefore Google utilizes cookies to display ads on our site. Thus, Google may use the DART cookie to serve ads based on users' interests derived from their visits to our site. Our esteemed visitors can disable the use of the DART cookie by visiting Google's Privacy Policy for Ads and Content Network.
We use advertising companies as third-party vendors to display ads, and when you visit the ars-technica.tech website, these companies may use information about your visits to this site (excluding name, address, email address, or telephone number) in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you through cookies.
Log Files:
Like most other website servers, ars-technica.tech utilizes log file system, which includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends.
This process is not intended to collect all of this information to intrude into visitors' personal matters, but rather for analytical purposes to improve the quality of ads by Google. Furthermore, all information stored by us is completely confidential and remains within the scope of development and improvement specific to our site.
Cookies and Network Settings:
Google uses cookie technology to store information about visitors' interests, along with a user-specific log that records specific information about the pages accessed or visited. This allows us to know visitors' interests and which topics are most preferred by them so that we can develop appropriate service and knowledge content for them.
Additionally, some companies advertising on ars-technica.tech may have access to our site's cookies and network settings. Examples of these companies include Google and its advertising program Google AdSense, the leading advertising company on our site.
Of course, these advertised companies, as third parties in the privacy policy, track such data and statistics through internet protocols for the purpose of improving the quality of their ads and measuring their effectiveness.
Furthermore, under agreements concluded with us, these companies have the right to use technologies such as cookies, network settings, and special code (JavaScript) for the same purposes mentioned above, which are aimed at developing advertising content for these companies and measuring the effectiveness of these ads, without any other objectives that may harm our visitors in any way.
And, of course, ars-technica.tech cannot access or control these files, and even after your permission and activation to take them from your device (cookies), we are not responsible in any way for their unauthorized use, if it occurs.
Please refer to the privacy policy of the third party in this document (advertising companies such as Google AdSense) or advertising network servers for more information about their practices and various activities.
For reviewing the privacy policy of the advertising program Google AdSense owned by Google, please click here.
Data can be collected for renewing marketing activities on the advertising network and search network through the advertisement policy that targets visitors' interests and websites, and this feature can be disabled from here.
Finally... We are committed within the terms of this agreement to explain to you how to disable the cookie feature, which you can do through your browser options, or by following Google's Privacy Policy for Ads and Content Network.
If you need more information or have any questions about the privacy policy, feel free to contact us through the contact form by accessing the Contact Us tab.
The terms of this policy are subject to development and change in content at any time we deem necessary.