Cookies
Learning about How We Use Cookies.
This Cookies Policy is a description of what cookies are, how we use cookies on our educational site, and your options with cookies. This policy must be read in line with our Privacy Policy.
Notice to European Visitors: The following policy is limited to visitors in the European Economic Area (EEA) and the United Kingdom to comply with the requirements of GDPR. To the users who are not in these regions, we do not ignore your privacy choices as discussed below.
Cookie Basics and Types
What Cookies Are and How We Use Them.
Cookies are small text files that can be deposited in your computer, smartphone or any other devices when you access a site on the internet. They have been highly utilized to ensure that websites run smoothly and deliver information to owners of websites.
Note of Importance: We are using cookies to improve the education experience on our site only. We never track sensitive personal data on cookies that we do not need to maintain the simplest basic functionality of the website and analytics.
Types of Cookies We Use
Since we are an educational site that offers PC hardware performance and tuning instructions, we are using cookies in good educational contexts:
Basic cookies (Absolute Necessity)
The cookies are a requirement of the site and they cannot be disabled.
Purpose: To keep your session alive, store your cookie preferences, as well as basic layered security of the site.
Examples: Load balancing, session management, security functions, cookie consent storage.
Legal Basis: required in order to fulfill our educational service.
Performance/Analytics Cookies
These cookies will allow us to know the interactions of the visitors with our education material.
Purpose: To examine which hardware manuals are the most helpful, learn to improve and learn how the users use our educational materials.
Examples: Number of page views, time taken on various tutorials, the most popular hardware pages, entry and exit pages.
Legal Foundation: Justified concern of enhancing our content in education.
Functionality Cookies
Such cookies make it possible to have more features that facilitate improved learning.
Purpose: To keep in mind what you like, and to customize your educational browsing process.
Examples: Preferences in language, font size settings, layout preferences, tutorials previously viewed.
Legal Ground: Your permission (these cookies are optional).
Advertising Cookies
Third party advertising networks (such as Google AdSense) use these cookies to show appropriate advertisements.
Purpose: This is to help us keep our free educational materials operating on advertising income.
Notable: These cookies are third party cookies. Once these cookies are set we can do nothing about them.
Examples: Interest-based advertising, frequency capping, measuring the performance of ads.
Legal Ground: Your permission (these cookies are optional).
Third-Party Cookies and Services.
We use the services of third parties, which might leave cookies on your machine:
Google Services
Google AdSense to show contextually relevant advertisements; Google Analytics to get insights into the patterns of usage in the website (anonymized information where available).
Other Services
Social media plugs (in case they are deployed); Integrated materials of other educational resources.
Note: The usage of third-party cookies is regulated by corresponding privacy policies of these companies.
Managing and Controlling Cookie.
Your Choices and Controls of Cookie.
Cookie Consent Options
Upon the first visit to our site, you will have a cookie consent banner where you will have the opportunity to:
Accept All cookies: Essential cookies, performance cookies, functionality cookies and advertising cookies.
Reject Non-Essential Cookies: Essential cookies will be set only.
Customize Preferences: Select the types of cookies that you would accept.
We follow your decision sternly. In case you do not want to receive non-essential cookies or personalize your preferences to avoid specific categories, we will enforce some technical actions to ensure that no such cookies will load or be set on your machine until you make amends.
Browser Controls and Advertising Controls.
The cookies can be controlled by your web browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:
View and remove cookies stored.
Block third-party cookies
Block websites of certain remote sites.
Block all cookies entirely
Note: It can block important cookies that will cause you to be unable to use our educational site correctly.
In regard to cookies to be used in advertising:
Google AdSense: If you wish to opt out through Google Ad Settings.
Network Advertising Initiative: Opt-out through Consumer Opt-Out of NAI.
Digital Advertising Alliance: Unsubscribe through DAA Consumer Choice.
Cookie Information and Data Security.
Certain Cookie Information.
A more extensive list of cookies used by us is given below:
| Cookie Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cookie_consent | PC Build Optimizer | Remembers your cookie preferences | 1 year | Essential |
| PHPSESSID | PC Build Optimizer | Maintains user session | Session | Essential |
| _ga | Google Analytics | Distinguishes unique users | 2 years | Performance |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Distinguishes unique users | 24 hours | Performance |
| _gat | Google Analytics | Throttles request rate | 1 minute | Performance |
| Various IDs | Google AdSense | Interest-based advertising | Varies | Advertising |
Education Purpose Restriction.
Notice of the Importance: everything on PC Build Optimizer is only educational. And likewise, we use cookies as:
Increasing the learning process.
Knowing the way our learning materials are utilized.
Funding the upkeep of the web site by the right advertisement.
Minimizing basic site functionality.
We do NOT:
Whoopsiesies, use cookies to gather deadwood personal information.
Give data of share cookies to third parties who are not supposed to have it.
Bake cookies in other ways than in these.
Monitor users in other non-educational websites.
Whoopsiesies, use cookies to gather deadwood personal information.
Give data of share cookies to third parties who are not supposed to have it.
Bake cookies in other ways than in these.
Monitor users in other non-educational websites.
Policy Updates and Contact
Contact Information and Changes.
This Cookie Policy may be changed by us occasionally to reflect:
Technological shifts in cookies.
New legal requirements
New additions to our educational services.
Alteration in outside service suppliers.
Significant changes will be informed to us by:
Revising the date of the last update.
Placing an advertisement on our web site.
Revising the cookie consent banner (where needed).
Finding Cookie Inquiries.
Questions regarding our usage of cookies or exercise your data protection rights:
Email: klikazjimmy66@gmail.com
Please refer to your subject line by adding cookie inquiry to have your subject responded to quickly.
We use cookies in a responsible way to improve your learning experience without being secretive on our part regarding our practices.
Technological shifts in cookies.
New legal requirements
New additions to our educational services.
Alteration in outside service suppliers.
Significant changes will be informed to us by:
Revising the date of the last update.
Placing an advertisement on our web site.
Revising the cookie consent banner (where needed).
Finding Cookie Inquiries.