This Cookie Policy explains how NewYorkCalculator.com (“we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit https://newyorkcalculator.com (the “Website”). It should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle personal information more broadly.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device (computer, smartphone, or tablet) when you visit a website. They allow the site, or a third party that provides a service on the site, to recognize your device, remember your preferences, measure how the site is used, and show advertising.
Similar technologies include web beacons (also called pixels), local storage, and software code (such as JavaScript tags) that perform the same functions. In this policy, “cookies” refers to all of these technologies.
2. Why We Use Cookies
We use cookies to:
- Make the Website work properly and keep it secure
- Remember settings and choices, such as your cookie consent preferences
- Understand how visitors find and use our calculators so we can improve them
- Show advertising through Google AdSense, and measure how that advertising performs
- Help detect spam and abuse, including on comments
3. Types of Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for the Website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually set in response to actions you take, such as submitting a comment or saving your consent choice. Without them, parts of the Website may not work.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
We use Google Analytics, connected through Google Site Kit, to collect information about how visitors use the Website, such as the pages viewed, time on page, device and browser type, approximate location, and the source of the visit. This information is generally aggregated and helps us see which tools are useful and where the Website can be improved.
Functional Cookies
These cookies remember choices you make so the Website can work the way you expect. For example, if you tick the box to save your name and email for future comments, a cookie remembers that choice.
Advertising Cookies
We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google and its advertising partners use cookies to show ads, to limit how many times you see the same ad, to measure ad performance, and, where you have not opted out or where consent is not required, to show ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites (personalized ads).
4. Cookies You May See on This Website
The exact cookies can change over time as providers update their services. The list below shows the main cookies you may encounter.
| Cookie / Technology | Provider | Purpose | Typical Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga, _ga_* | Google Analytics | Distinguishes visitors and measures site usage and traffic sources | Up to 2 years |
| _gads, _gpi, __gpi | Google AdSense | Ad delivery, frequency capping, and measuring ad performance | Up to about 13 months |
| IDE, test_cookie | Google (DoubleClick) | Advertising, ad personalization where permitted, and ad measurement | Up to about 13 months |
| FCCDCF, FCNEC | Google Funding Choices (consent tool) | Stores your cookie consent choices where a consent message is shown | Up to about 1 year |
| comment_author_*, comment_author_email_*, comment_author_url_* | This Website (WordPress) | Remembers your name, email, and website if you choose to save them for future comments | Up to 1 year |
| wordpress_test_cookie | This Website (WordPress) | Checks whether your browser accepts cookies | Session |
5. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies are placed by third parties that provide services on our Website, mainly Google (Analytics, AdSense, and consent tools). These third parties set and control their own cookies, and we do not have access to them. Their use of data is governed by their own privacy policies:
- Google Privacy Policy
- How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services
- How Google uses cookies
6. Your Choices and How to Manage Cookies
Consent for visitors in the EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland
If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we ask for your consent before setting cookies that are not strictly necessary, including advertising and analytics cookies, through a consent banner. You can accept, decline, or change your choices at any time through the cookie settings option on the Website. Where no consent option is shown, for example because it is not required in your location, the banner or settings link may not appear.
Opting out of personalized advertising
- Google Ads Settings: adssettings.google.com
- Digital Advertising Alliance (United States): www.aboutads.info
- Network Advertising Initiative: optout.networkadvertising.org
- Your Online Choices (Europe): www.youronlinechoices.com
Opting out of personalized ads does not stop ads from appearing. It means the ads you see may be less relevant to you.
Opting out of Google Analytics
You can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to stop your data from being used by Google Analytics.
Browser settings
Most browsers let you view, delete, and block cookies, or warn you before a cookie is stored. The steps differ by browser, so please check your browser’s help section:
7. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control signal. Because there is no common industry standard for how to respond to Do Not Track signals, our Website does not currently change its behavior in response to them. We encourage you to use the opt-out tools described above.
8. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, for example when we add new features or when laws or our service providers change. Updates will be posted on this page with a new “Last Updated” date.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, please contact us:
Email: info@newyorkcalculator.com
Contact page: https://newyorkcalculator.com/contact-us/