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 more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies enable the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size, and other display preferences) over a period, so you don't have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

2. How We Use Cookies

At PickTheBrainy.com, we use cookies for several purposes to enhance your Browse experience and understand how our website is used:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the website to function correctly. They enable core functionalities like security, network management, and accessibility. Without these cookies, certain services you have asked for cannot be provided.
• Analytical/Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use tools like Google Analytics for this purpose, which helps us understand user behavior without directly identifying individuals.
• Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting/Advertising Cookies: We do not currently use targeting or advertising cookies. If this changes in the future, we will update this policy and provide you with options to manage these cookies.

3. Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on. For instance, we integrate with Google Analytics to help us analyze web traffic and user interactions. Google Analytics uses its own cookies to track visitor interactions.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

4. Your Choices Regarding Cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by:

• Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Service may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
• Opt-out Tools: For Google Analytics, you can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.youronlinechoices.eu.

5. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top. We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically for any changes.

6. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, you can contact us:

• By email: [email protected]
• By visiting this page on our website: pickthebrainy.com/contact.php