Cookie Policy

Last Updated: January 17, 2025

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, smartphone, or tablet) when you visit our website. They help us provide you with a better experience by remembering your preferences, understanding how you use our site, and improving our services.

How We Use Cookies

Practice Archive uses cookies for the following purposes:

Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation, secure access to your account, and form submissions. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Examples:

  • Session cookies: Maintain your session while browsing
  • Security cookies: Authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use
  • Load balancing cookies: Distribute traffic across our servers

Duration: Session or up to 30 days

Type: First-party

Analytics Cookies

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our website. This helps us improve our content, features, and user experience. These cookies collect information anonymously and report website trends without identifying individual visitors.

Google Analytics Cookies:

  • _ga: Distinguishes unique users
  • _ga_*: Persists session state
  • _gid: Distinguishes unique users (short-term)
  • _gat: Used to throttle request rate

Duration: Up to 2 years

Type: Third-party (Google)

Provider: Google LLC

Information collected includes:

  • Pages visited and time spent on each page
  • How you arrived at our website (referral source)
  • What links and buttons you click
  • Device type, browser, and operating system
  • General geographic location (city/region level)

Functional Cookies

These cookies allow us to remember choices you make (such as your preferred language or region) and provide enhanced, personalized features.

Currently, we do not use functional cookies beyond essential functionality. This may change as we add features to improve your experience.

Cookies We Do NOT Use

We do not use:

  • Advertising cookies: We do not show personalized ads or track you across other websites
  • Social media cookies: We do not embed social media tracking pixels
  • Third-party marketing cookies: We do not sell or share your data with advertisers

Managing Your Cookie Preferences

Browser Settings

You can control and manage cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:

  • View what cookies are stored and delete them individually
  • Block third-party cookies
  • Block all cookies from specific websites
  • Delete all cookies when you close your browser

Popular browser cookie management:

Opt Out of Google Analytics

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Note: Blocking or deleting essential cookies may affect your ability to use certain features of our website, such as staying logged in to your account.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for legal, operational, or regulatory reasons. When we make changes, we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page.

Questions?

If you have questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us at contact@practicearchive.com.

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