COOKIE POLICY FOR BLACK TECH WEEK

This is the Cookie Policy for Black Tech Week , accessible from https://www.blacktechweek.com/cookie-policy

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 sites functionality.

WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?

The cookies we use cannot be used to identify you personally. These pieces of information that we gather are used in the following ways:

• We use cookies that are strictly necessary to enable you to move around the site or to provide certain basic features.
• We also use cookies to help us to improve the performance of our website to provide you with a better user experience.
• We use a third party to monitor and analyse traffic to, from and within our website.

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 also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

THE COOKIES WE SET

The following cookies are used specifically on this site:

PHPSESSID

The PHPSESSID cookie is native to PHP and enables websites to store serialised state data. On the Action website it is used to establish a user session and to pass state data via a temporary cookie, which is commonly referred to as a session cookie. As the PHPSESSID cookie has no timed expiry, it disappears when the client is closed.

THIRD PARTY COOKIES

Google Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution 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.

MORE INFORMATION

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and 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.

If you have any questions or concerns about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at info@lightship.foundation