This cookie policy describes how Tooling Metrics (“we,” “us,” or “our”) uses “cookies” and other similar technologies, in connection with our Site and Services. To learn more about our-affiliated websites, please see section 4 below. Any capitalized term used and not otherwise defined below has the meaning assigned to it in the Privacy Policy.
1. What is a Cookie?
Cookies are small text files that are stored in a computer’s browser directory. They help site providers with things like understanding how people use a site, remembering a User’s login details, and storing site preferences.
2. Does we use Cookies?
Yes. We use cookies in accordance with our Privacy Policy to: ensure that our Services function properly, detect and prevent fraud, understand how visitors use and engage with our Site, and analyze and improve Services.
3. Who sets cookies when I use Tooling Metrics’s Site?
There are two main types of cookies that can be set:
- First party cookies: these cookies are placed and read by Tooling Metrics directly when you use our Services,
- Third party cookies: these cookies are not set by us, but by other companies, like Google or Cloudflare, for site analytics purposes. See further details below on how to manage these cookies.
4. How Tooling Metrics Uses Cookies
Cookies play an important role in helping us provide effective and safe Services. Below is a description of the commonly used cookie types and the purposes that apply to them. Each section references our Cookie Settings Dashboard, where you can find more information about each cookie, and exercise your choices.
For our affiliated websites, you can learn more about cookies by visiting those sites directly.
Necessary Cookies
Some cookies are essential to the operation of our Site and Services and make it usable and secure by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the Site. We use those cookies in a number of different ways, including:
- Authentication. To remember your login state so you don’t have to log in as you navigate through our Site
- Fraud Prevention and Detection. Cookies and similar technologies that we deploy through our Site help us learn things about computers and web browsers used to access the Services. This information helps us monitor for and detect potentially harmful or illegal use of our Services.
- Functionality. To keep our Site and Services working correctly, like showing you the right information for your selected location.
For more information, please see the Necessary section in the our Cookie Settings Dashboard. For our affiliated websites, you can learn more about cookies by visiting those sites directly.
Preference Cookies
Preference cookies are used by us to remember your preferences and to recognize you when you return to our Services.
For more information, please see the Advertising section in the our Cookie Settings Dashboard. For our affiliated websites, you can learn more about cookies by visiting those sites directly.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our Services.
We use those cookies in a number of different ways, including:
- Site Features and Services. To remember how you prefer to use our Services so that you don’t have to reconfigure your settings each time you log into your account.
- To Analyze and Improve Our Services. To make our Site and Services work better for You. Cookies help us understand how people reach our Site and our Users’ sites. They give us insights into improvements or enhancements we need to make to our Site and Services.
- Third Party Analytics. Through Cloudflare Pages Analytics in order to collect and analyze information about the use of the Services and report on activities and trends. This service may also collect information regarding the use of other sites, apps and online resources. You can learn about Cloudflare Pages practices on the Cloudflare website
For more information, please see the Analytics section in the our Cookie Settings Dashboard. For our affiliated websites, you can learn more about cookies by visiting those sites directly.
Advertising Cookies
We and our service providers will use cookies and similar technologies on toolingmetrics.com to direct our ads to you through targeted advertisements on other sites you visit and to measure your engagement with those ads.
For more information, please see the Advertising section in the our Cookie Settings Dashboard. For our affiliated websites, you can learn more about cookies by visiting those sites directly
5. Can I opt-out?
Yes. You can opt out of cookies through our Cookie Settings Dashboard, with the exception of those cookies that are necessary to provide you with our Services. For our affiliated websites, you can learn more about cookies by visiting those sites directly.
Your web browser may allow you to manage your cookie preferences, including to delete and disable our cookies. You can take a look at the help section of your web browser. If you choose to disable cookies, some features of our Site or Services may not operate as intended.