Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device. Similar technologies include browser local storage and pixels. Websites use cookies to keep pages working, remember preferences, measure traffic and support advertising.

How We Use Cookies

We use the following categories:

Essential: strictly necessary for the site to function, for example keeping your place in the site and protecting against abuse. The site cannot operate without these.
Preferences: remember your choices, such as whether you have dismissed a prompt, so the site behaves the way you expect on your next visit.
Analytics: set by Google Analytics to measure, in aggregate, how visitors use the site, which pages are read and where readers come from. This helps us improve the ministry's content.
Advertising: set by Google AdSense and its partners to serve and measure advertising, and in some regions to limit how often an ad is shown. In regions where the law requires it, advertising cookies are used only with your consent.
Reactions and bookmarks: a local, anonymous visitor identifier used only so you can undo a reaction or recover a bookmark. It contains no personal data and is not shared.

Google AdSense and Personalised Advertising

We display advertising through Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. Google's DoubleClick cookie enables Google and its partners to serve personalised ads to you based on your visits to our site and/or other sites.

You can opt out of personalised advertising at Google Ads Settings (https://www.google.com/settings/ads) and opt out of third-party vendor cookies for personalised advertising at https://www.aboutads.info. Where required by law, we obtain consent before advertising cookies are used. You may also see fewer relevant, non-personalised ads if you opt out; the ads still fund the site.

Managing Cookies

All major browsers let you view, delete and block cookies, typically in Settings, Privacy or Security. You can also install opt-out add-ons such as Google's Analytics opt-out.

Blocking essential cookies may break parts of the site. Blocking advertising and analytics cookies does not affect your ability to read our content.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy as our practices change. The revision date at the top of this page shows the current version.

Contact

Questions about cookies on this site may be sent to info@christianlens.org or through our contact page.