Cookie Policy

Below you can read our Cookie policy.

Cookie Usage

CasualGeographical.com (this site) uses cookies to make its services simple and efficient for users viewing its pages.

Users viewing this site from computers and mobile devices will have minimal amounts of information saved in small text files called “cookies”, placed in the directories used by the user’s web browser.

By disabling cookies, some of our services may not work properly and some pages may not display correctly. There are various types of cookies, some to make the use of this site more effective, others to enable certain features.

By analyzing them in detail our cookies allow you to:

  • store the entered preferences
  • avoid re-entering the same information several times during the visit such as your name, email, etc.
  • have an optimized navigation experience and services offered, as we analyze your use of the services and content provided by this site and improve them
  • view personalized advertising on the pages of this site

Types Of Cookies Used By This Site

Technical Cookies

This type of cookie is required for some sections of this site to function properly. They are of two categories: persistent cookies and session cookies.

  • persistent cookies: once the browser is closed, they will not be destroyed but remain in place until they expire or you choose to delete them.
  • session cookies: they are destroyed every time the browser is closed.

These cookies, always sent by our domain, are required to display the site correctly and in relation to the technical services offered, will always be used and sent, unless the user modifies the settings in his browser (thus affecting the display of this site’s pages).

Analytical Cookies

These cookies are used to collect information about site usage. This site will use this information as anonymous statistical analysis to improve site usage and to make content more interesting and relevant to users’ desires.

This type of cookie collects anonymous data about the user’s activity and how it came to the site. Analytical cookies are sent from the site itself or from third-party domains.

Third-party Analytical Cookies

These cookies are used to anonymously collect information about the use of this site by users such as: visited pages, visit duration, traffic source, age, gender, and interest, to use for anonymous statistical analysis of the site usage. These cookies are sent from third-party domains outside of this site, in our case by Google Analytics.

Cookies to integrate products and features of third-party software

These cookies integrate features developed by third parties within the pages of this site, such as fonts and embedded videos.

These cookies are sent by third-party domains and partner sites that offer their functionality within this site’s pages.

Profiling Cookies

These are the cookies needed to create user profiles in order to send online advertising in line with the user’s preferences within the pages of this site.

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This site, according to current legislation, is not required to ask user consent for technical cookies, as they are necessary to provide the services required by the user.

For all other types of cookies, the consent can be expressed by the user with one or more of the following:

  • Using specific configurations of the browser or computer programs used to navigate the pages of this site.
  • By modifying the settings regarding the use of third-party services.
  • By choosing your cookie preference from the popup we present you when viewing our site for the first time, and every time after that when your cookie preference has expired.
  • By choosing your cookie preference from the footer link at the bottom of this site.

These solutions may prevent the user from using or viewing parts of this site.

Websites and third-party services

This site may contain links to other websites that have their own cookie policy that may be different from the one adopted by this site. This site is not responsible for these other websites.

Cookies Used By This Site

Forms

This site uses the data entered from you in the various forms of this site, so we (this site) can respond to your requests for information, or any other reason (indicated in the title of the form).

Collected data: name, email, website, IP address.

For comment forms, we also give you the possibility to choose to save your entered name, email address, and website on your browser so they can be used the next time you comment. This is done with cookies.

YouTube a third-party service of Google LLC

YouTube is a social network dedicated to displaying video content and is managed by Google LLC. It gives the ability to integrate its content into the pages of this site.

More specifically, we include YouTube videos on our articles/pages, but don’t load them until the user/visitor of that page clicks on the Play button or on the video thumbnail image. If the user clicks on the Play button or on the video thumbnail image to play the video, the user accepts YouTube’s terms of service and their use of cookies.

Collected Data: Cookies and Usage Data.

User access analysis by Google Analytics and third-party services of Google LLC.

User access and interactions on this site are analyzed by Google Analytics managed by Google LLC.

Collected Data: Cookies and Usage Data.

Advertising

We are affiliated with an advertising company for the purposes of placing advertising on this website. You can read about them, find their privacy and cookie policies and their physical address on our Privacy Policy page.

Akismet of Automattic Inc.

Akismet’s service is required to protect from SPAM the pages of this site and is provided by Automattic Inc.

Collected Data: Various Types of Data (Specified in the Privacy Policy of the Akismet Service).

Google Fonts service of Google LLC

Google Fonts is a service that allows this site to embed and display custom font styles on its pages and is managed by Google LLC.

Collected Data: Cookies and Usage Data.

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Privacy policies and physical addresses of all the third-party services we use on this website are specified on our Privacy Policy page.

Disabling Cookies

To disable cookies by configuring your browser, since every browser is different, please refer to the documentation on the official page of the browser you are using.

Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this Cookie policy, you may contact us using the information below.

email: [email protected]

More information about us can be found on our Privacy policy and About pages.

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Last Edited on April 29, 2021