Cookies Policy
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies allow a website to recognize your device and remember certain information about your visit. They may be used to make a website function properly, remember preferences, understand how visitors use the website, and support advertising.
Cookies may be:
- First-party cookies, which are placed by Wisdom Share.
- Third-party cookies, which are placed by third-party services that operate on or through our Website.
- Session cookies, which generally expire when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.
We may also use technologies similar to cookies, including pixels, local storage, and other identifiers.
How Wisdom Share Uses Cookies
Wisdom Share may use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Essential Cookies
Essential cookies are used where necessary to provide the Website or a service requested by you, or where another lawful basis permits their use.
These may include cookies used to:
- Maintain basic website functionality.
- Remember your cookie-consent choices.
- Maintain security and prevent abuse.
- Support essential technical functions.
Essential cookies cannot be disabled through our cookie-preference tool because the Website may not function properly without them.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics Cookies help us understand how visitors use the Website, including how pages are accessed and how the Website performs.
These cookies are optional and are used where permitted by applicable law and according to your cookie preferences.
They may allow us to understand information such as:
- Which pages are visited.
- How visitors navigate the Website.
- How frequently pages are visited.
- How the Website performs.
Experience Cookies
Experience Cookies support optional functionality and help the Website perform as well as possible during your visit.
If you refuse these cookies, some optional functionality may not be available.
Advertising Cookies
Wisdom Share may use advertising cookies and similar technologies in connection with advertising services, including Google AdSense.
Where you provide the applicable consent, Advertising Cookies and similar technologies may allow Google AdSense and participating advertising providers to use information about your interests and activity on the Website to provide or measure personalized advertising.
If you do not provide the applicable consent, personalized advertising will not be provided on the basis of that consent.
Advertising technologies may be used to:
- Display advertisements.
- Measure advertising performance.
- Limit how frequently an advertisement is shown.
- Detect invalid or fraudulent activity.
- Where permitted and where you have provided the required consent, personalize advertising based on information such as interests or browsing activity.
Advertising cookies are optional where consent is required.
Google AdSense
Wisdom Share uses Google AdSense, an advertising service provided by Google.
Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, local storage, and similar technologies to provide, measure, and support advertising on our Website.
Depending on your location, your choices, and applicable legal requirements, advertisements may be personalized or non-personalized.
Personalized advertising may use information about a user's activity to make advertisements more relevant.
Non-personalized advertising may use contextual information instead and does not use information for personalized advertising.
Even when non-personalized advertising is used, Google explains that certain cookies or similar technologies may still be used for purposes such as frequency capping and aggregated advertising reporting where legally permitted.
For users in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, Google requires publishers using its advertising products to obtain consent for the use of cookies or similar technologies where legally required and for the collection, sharing, and use of personal information for personalized advertising.
Wisdom Share uses a consent mechanism to communicate applicable choices to users.
For more information about Google's advertising technologies and how Google uses information, please review Google's policies and information concerning advertising technologies.
Your Cookie Choices
When you visit Wisdom Share, you may be presented with a cookie-consent notice allowing you to choose which optional categories of cookies you accept.
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may be able to:
- Accept optional cookies.
- Reject optional cookies.
- Customize your cookie preferences.
Your cookie preferences are saved for one year.
After that period, you may be asked to review your preferences again.
You may change or withdraw your cookie preferences at any time through the cookie-settings mechanism provided on the Website.
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before your withdrawal.
European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland
If you are located in the EEA, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, applicable privacy and electronic-communications laws may require your consent before certain cookies or similar technologies are placed on your device or before certain personal information is processed for advertising purposes.
Where consent is required, Wisdom Share will request your consent before using the applicable optional technologies.
You may refuse optional cookies without losing access to the basic content of the Website.
For advertising purposes, Wisdom Share's consent mechanism may communicate your choices to Google and participating advertising technology providers as applicable.
Google's current publisher requirements state that publishers serving personalized ads to users in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland must use a Google-certified Consent Management Platform integrated with the IAB Europe Transparency and Consent Framework.
California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, California law, including the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA/CPRA”), may provide you with additional rights concerning your personal information.
Depending on the circumstances, these rights may include the right to:
- Know what categories of personal information we collect, use, disclose, sell, or share.
- Request access to certain personal information.
- Request deletion of certain personal information.
- Correct certain inaccurate personal information.
- Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information.
- Limit certain uses and disclosures of sensitive personal information where applicable.
- Receive equal treatment for exercising privacy rights.
Sale or Sharing of Personal Information
Certain advertising activities involving third-party advertising providers may constitute a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information under California law, depending on the circumstances and the information involved.
California residents may exercise applicable opt-out rights through the privacy choices provided on the Website.
Where available, California residents may also use a recognized browser-based privacy signal, such as Global Privacy Control (GPC), to communicate an applicable opt-out preference.
We will process valid opt-out requests in accordance with applicable law.
How to Manage Cookies Through Your Browser
In addition to the cookie controls provided by Wisdom Share, most web browsers allow you to control or delete cookies through their settings.
You can generally configure your browser to:
- Block cookies.
- Delete existing cookies.
- Notify you when cookies are being placed.
- Allow cookies only from certain websites.
Please note that disabling or deleting certain cookies may affect the functionality of Wisdom Share or other websites you visit.
Third-Party Services
Some cookies and similar technologies used on Wisdom Share may be provided by third parties.
These third parties may include advertising, analytics, security, hosting, or other service providers.
Third parties may process information in accordance with their own privacy policies and terms.
For advertising provided through Google AdSense, Google's policies describe how Google may use cookies and similar technologies in connection with advertising.
Information About Specific Cookies
The exact cookies and similar technologies used on Wisdom Share may change over time as the Website, its features, analytics services, advertising services, and technical providers change.
For this reason, the cookie categories presented through our cookie-consent mechanism are intended to provide the most current information about the categories of optional technologies in use.
Where technically available, you may use the Website's cookie-preference mechanism to review and manage the available cookie categories.
Legal Bases for Cookie Use
Where the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) applies, the legal basis for using cookies depends on the purpose of the cookie.
Generally:
Essential cookies are used where necessary to provide a service or functionality requested by you, or where another lawful basis applies.
Optional analytics, experience, and advertising cookies are generally used on the basis of your consent where consent is required.
Where another lawful basis is relied upon, processing will be limited to circumstances permitted by applicable law.
You may withdraw consent to optional cookies at any time.
Children's Privacy
Wisdom Share is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children in circumstances where such collection is prohibited by applicable law.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us inappropriately, please contact us so that we can review the matter and take appropriate action.
Changes to This Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes to:
- The cookies and technologies used by the Website.
- Our services or Website functionality.
- Advertising or analytics providers.
- Applicable privacy laws.
- Regulatory or industry requirements.
When we make changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the beginning of this policy.
Contact Wisdom Share
If you have questions about this Cookies Policy, our use of cookies, or your privacy choices, please contact Wisdom Share through the contact information provided on our Website.
Website: https://www.wisdomshare.org/
Email: jesse.nuytten@ninebyninedesign.com
Business/Operator Name: Jesse Nuytten