1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit. 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 the Space Industry Review USA website.
2. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a limited number of purposes, all aimed at improving your experience on our non-commercial educational website. Our usage falls into the following categories:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They include cookies that manage your consent choices regarding other cookies. You cannot opt out of these cookies as the website cannot provide its basic services without them.
- Analytical 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 improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. All data collected is aggregated and anonymous.
- Functional Cookies: These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region), but we currently do not implement such features.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
Below is a table listing the specific cookies we use on our site, their purpose, and their duration.
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Type | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| cookieConsent | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. | Essential | 1 year |
| _ga, _gid | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users and analyze website traffic anonymously. | Analytical | 2 years |
4. How to Manage Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by using the cookie banner that appears when you first visit our website. Furthermore, you can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website, though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
5. Third-Party Cookies
Our website may embed content from third-party services, such as Google Maps for displaying maps on our contact page. These third-party services may set their own cookies on your device. We do not control the use of these cookies and cannot access them due to the way cookies work. You should check the third-party websites for more information about these cookies.
6. Policy Updates
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.