Friday With Kaye uses a standard technology called cookies to improve the experience for users of this website. Cookies are very small text documents that store information. They are created by the websites you visit and stored on your computer.

When you visit a website, that site asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies.

What Cookies Are Used For

Cookies play an important role in using the internet and making browsing more convenient. When you visit a website, it sends a small piece of information to your computer to keep track of your your visits and certain preferences like the language you use, for instance. These cookies are then stored in your web browser and are used when you visit the website again so you don’t have to re-enter information.

Essential and Personalization Cookies

Some cookies are essential to the function of websites such as those that keep you logged in as you scroll through a website and allow content to be loaded efficiently. Other cookies collect information that helps personalize your visits to a webpage such as preferences you enter voluntarily. Other information may include date and time of visits, pages viewed, time spent on a site, and the websites visited just before and just after, as well as your IP address.

This data gives website owners and managers information that helps them improve the experience of visitors. An example of this would be adding, updating or removing pages and content based on how often they are viewed and how much time visitors spend on the pages which reveals how relevant they are to the intended audience. 

Marketing and Tracking Cookies

Some cookies are used for data analysis and to improve marketing strategies for website owners. Theses cookies show a website owner when a visitor lands on their website including when they’ve clicked on a paid online ad. This allows website owners to assess the performance of their content and ads.

Friday With Kaye uses third party marketing and tracking cookies from Pinterest, Google and Amazon.

Tracking pixels also allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites. This allows the social media sites to tailor the advertising messages a user sees while on that social media website.

How To Manage Cookies

Cookies do expire, although the time to expiration varies from one to the next. You can choose to delete the cookies on your browser at any time and you can also set your browser to refuse some or all cookies.

On almost all websites, if you completely disable or refuse cookies some parts of the website may not work well. Blocking all cookies can limit the quality of your browsing experience.

Another option is to set your browser to ask for your permission before accepting a cookie from a website. This gives you more control so you can decide which websites to accept cookies from. 

Opting Out of Cookies

While the purpose of cookies is to give users a more personalized browsing experience, some people consider tracking cookies an invasion of their privacy. If you would like to block or delete cookies from Friday With Kaye or any other website you can do so at any time under the privacy and security tabs in your browser.