Cookie Policy

Last Updated: 2024-01-01

What Are Cookies?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which 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.

In addition to cookies, we use Web Storage (specifically `localStorage`) for similar purposes, which allows websites to store data in your browser. For simplicity, we will refer to both cookies and localStorage as "cookies" throughout this policy.

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.

The Cookies We Set

• Site Preferences Cookies: To provide you with a great experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences. These include:

  • theme: Stores your preference for the light or dark theme.
  • userCurrency: Stores your manually selected currency preference.
  • cookieConsent: Remembers that you have accepted our cookie policy so we don't show you the consent banner on every visit.
  • currencyRates: Caches foreign exchange rates in your browser to speed up currency conversions and reduce API calls.

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, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web, for helping us to 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 so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

• Google AdSense: We use the Google AdSense service to serve advertising. It 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.

• Geolocation Service: We use third-party services like ipapi.co or ip-api.com to detect your approximate location from your IP address. This is not stored and is used only once on your visit to suggest a default currency. This service does not set a persistent cookie.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser's "Help" section 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 also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

More Information

Hopefully, that has clarified things for you. As was previously mentioned, 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 our Privacy Policy.

If you are still looking for more information, then you can contact us through our contact page.