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, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. This policy explains how and why we use cookies on isitBOTTLENECKED.
2. How and Why We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a few key reasons: to ensure our calculator functions correctly, to understand how visitors use our site so we can improve it, and to display relevant advertising that supports our free service. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them, as they may be used to provide a feature that you use.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
- Essential (Functionality) Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function. For example, when you use our bottleneck calculator, we use a cookie to remember the CPU, GPU, and other components you select. Without these, you would have to re-enter your selections on every page.
- Performance and Analytics Cookies: We use these cookies to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website. This helps us understand which pages are most popular and identify areas for improvement. This data is aggregated and does not personally identify you.
- Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you and your interests. We partner with third parties like Google AdSense to serve ads.
4. Third-Party Cookies & Advertising
We use trusted third-party services that may also set cookies on your device.
Google AdSense
To support our site and keep our tools free, we use Google AdSense to display advertisements.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve personalized ads to you.
- You can opt out of personalized advertising at any time by visiting Google's Ads Settings. You can also opt out of other third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
For more information, please see our Privacy Policy, which provides more detail on third-party advertising.
5. Managing and Disabling Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by adjusting the settings in your web browser. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser.
Please be aware that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of this and many other websites. For example, our calculator may not work as intended.
6. More Information
We hope this policy has clarified our use of cookies. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.