Cookie Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to Compress It Small ("we", "our", or "us"). We are committed to transparency in our data collection practices and ensuring that you, our user, are fully informed about how we use tracking technologies on our website, https://compressitsmall.co.uk/ (the "Site").

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use, the information we collect using cookies, and how that information is used. It also sets out your rights to control our use of them. This policy is an integral part of our Privacy Policy.

2. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to the owners of the site.

Cookies do many different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience. They can also help to ensure that ads you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your device for a set period or until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience.

3. How do we use cookies?

When you use and access the Site, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser. We use cookies for the following purposes:

• To enable certain functions of the Service.
• To provide analytics and understand how our site is used.
• To store your preferences (such as language or region).
• To enable advertisements delivery, including behavioral advertising.

We do not use cookies to collect sensitive personal information such as your name, address, or financial details unless you have voluntarily provided that information through a form on our website.

4. Categories of cookies we use

Below is a detailed list of the types of cookies we use on our website. Our website is scanned regularly with our cookie scanning tool to maintain a list as accurate as possible.

4.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the operation of our website. They enable you to move around the Site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas or using our file compression tools. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.

• Consent Cookies: We use a cookie to record your preferences regarding the use of cookies on our website, ensuring we respect your choices on subsequent visits.
• Session Management: To manage your session securely while you are uploading and processing files.

4.2 Performance and Analytics Cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.

• Analytics Tools: We may use privacy-focused analytics or reporting services (including tools provided via Ezoic and similar partners) to understand aggregated visitor behavior.

4.3 Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

4.4 Targeting and Advertising Cookies

These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers.

We may partner with third-party ad networks to either display advertising on our Web Site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our ad network partner uses cookies and Web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on this and other Web sites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests.

4.5 Google AdSense (Google Advertising Products)

If we enable Google AdSense or other Google advertising products on this site, Google and its partners may use cookies (or similar identifiers) to serve ads, measure ad performance, and (where permitted) personalize ads based on your prior visits to this website and/or other websites.

You can manage ad personalization in Google Ad Settings and learn more about how Google uses information from sites that use its services. You may also opt out of some interest-based advertising through industry opt-out tools.

• Google Ad Settings (ad personalization)
• How Google uses information from sites that use its services
• AboutAds opt-out (US)
• YourOnlineChoices (EU/UK)

5. Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on. These third parties may include, but are not limited to:

• Ad & analytics partners (via Ezoic and similar platforms): For traffic analysis and advertising.
• Social Media Platforms: If you share content from our site to social media, those platforms may set their own cookies.

Please note that we have no control over these third-party cookies. You should check the relevant third-party website for more information about these.

5.1 Consent and cookie preferences (EEA/UK/CH)

Where required by applicable law (for example, in the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland), we ask for your consent before placing non-essential cookies such as analytics and advertising cookies. You can accept, decline, or change your preferences at any time using the consent banner or its “Preferences” option.

6. Your choices regarding cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Manager. The Cookie Consent Manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services.

If you prefer to avoid the use of cookies on the Website, first you must disable the use of cookies in your browser and then delete the cookies saved in your browser associated with this website. You may use this option for preventing the use of cookies at any time.

If you'd like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser:

• For the Chrome web browser, please visit this page from Google: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
• For the Internet Explorer web browser, please visit this page from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835
• For the Firefox web browser, please visit this page from Mozilla: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored
• For the Safari web browser, please visit this page from Apple: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac

For any other web browser, please visit your web browser's official web pages.

7. Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update our 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 therefore 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.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at privacy@compressitsmall.co.uk.