1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. This policy explains how and why we use cookies on the Space Industry Review USA website.
2. How We Use Cookies
We use a minimal number of cookies to ensure the basic functionality of our website and to improve user experience. Our use of cookies is limited to what is strictly necessary for the operation of this non-commercial educational platform. We do not use cookies for advertising or commercial tracking.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
The cookies used on our site can be categorized as follows:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features. Without these cookies, services like remembering your cookie consent choices cannot be provided.
- Performance/Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website. For instance, they tell us which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. This helps us improve how our website works. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
4. Cookie Table
| Cookie Name | Provider | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cookieConsent | Our Site | Strictly Necessary | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. | 1 Year |
| _ga, _gid, _gat | Google Analytics | Performance | Used to distinguish users and analyze website traffic anonymously. Helps us understand how visitors interact with the website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. | Up to 2 Years |
5. How to Manage Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by using our cookie consent banner upon your first visit. Additionally, you can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website, though your access to some functionality may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
6. Third-Party Cookies
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our website is used. Google Analytics may set cookies on your browser or read cookies that are already there. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google. Google's privacy policy can be viewed at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
7. Policy Updates
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.