This Cookie Policy explains how iLmrary.com uses cookies and similar technologies, what they do, and how you can control them.
Read it together with our Privacy Policy, which describes how we handle personal information more broadly.
1. What Cookies Are
A cookie is a small text file placed on your device when you visit a website. Cookies let a site remember your actions and preferences over time, and they let other services recognize your browser across visits.
We also use technologies that work in a similar way, including pixels, tracking tags, software development kits, and browser storage. Where this policy refers to cookies, it covers these related technologies too.
Cookies set by iLmrary.com are called first-party cookies. Cookies set by other companies whose services appear on our pages, such as advertising and analytics providers, are called third-party cookies. We do not control third-party cookies, and the company that sets them handles the data under its own policy.
2. Why We Use Cookies
Cookies on this site support four purposes:
- Keeping the website loading, secure, and working correctly
- Remembering your consent choices so you are not asked repeatedly
- Understanding which pages readers use, in aggregate
- Selecting, delivering, and measuring advertising
Because iLmrary.com has no user accounts, no comment section, no newsletter, and no contact form, we do not use cookies to build a profile of you from information you have submitted to us. Almost all cookie activity on this site comes from advertising and analytics services.
3. Categories of Cookies We Use
Strictly necessary cookies
These keep the site running. They support page delivery, security, load balancing, and the storage of your consent choices. The site cannot function properly without them, so they are set without asking for consent.
Preference cookies
These remember choices you make, such as your cookie consent selections, so the site behaves consistently on your next visit.
Analytics cookies
These help us understand how the site is used in aggregate: which pages are read, how long visits last, and where readers arrive from. We use this to decide what to write and what to improve.
Advertising cookies
These are set by advertising partners. They support the selection and delivery of advertisements, limit how often you see the same advertisement, measure advertising performance, and detect invalid traffic and fraud. Where you consent, they also support personalized advertising based on your browsing across sites.
Analytics and advertising cookies are not set before consent for visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.
4. Cookies Set On This Site
The table below lists the cookies our services are documented to set. Cookie names, durations, and providers change as services update, and they vary with configuration.
Confirm this table against the scan produced by your consent management platform before relying on it, and update it whenever you add or remove a service.
| Cookie | Provider | Category | Purpose | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
__gads | Advertising | Advertisement selection, frequency capping, and measurement | About 13 months | |
__gpi | Advertising | Advertisement personalization and measurement | About 13 months | |
__eoi | Advertising | Limits the number of times an advertisement is shown | About 6 months | |
_ga | Google Analytics | Analytics | Distinguishes browsers for aggregate reporting | About 2 years |
_ga_<id> | Google Analytics | Analytics | Retains session state for reporting | About 2 years |
| Consent record | Consent platform | Preferences | Stores your cookie choices and consent string | Commonly 6 to 12 months |
| Security and session cookies | Host and security provider | Strictly necessary | Site delivery, security, and abuse prevention | Session to short term |
Advertising partners other than Google may set additional cookies when they participate in an advertising auction. Your consent platform records which partners you have allowed.
5. When Cookies Are Set
For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, only strictly necessary cookies are set when a page first loads. Analytics and advertising cookies are set only after you give consent through the consent notice.
For visitors elsewhere, cookies may be set on arrival in line with the law that applies in your location, and you can still opt out using the controls described in this policy.
6. Legal Basis
Where the GDPR, UK GDPR, or Swiss law applies, we rely on:
- Consent for analytics cookies, advertising cookies, and personalized advertising
- Legitimate interests for strictly necessary cookies that keep the site secure and functioning
You can withdraw consent at any time, and refusing consent does not stop you from reading the site.
7. Managing Your Consent
You can change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time through the cookie settings control available on this site.
Where we serve Google advertising to visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, we use a Google-certified consent management platform that supports the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework, together with Google Consent Mode. Your choices are recorded and passed to our advertising and analytics partners.
Withdrawing consent stops further processing based on that consent. It does not undo processing that already took place while consent was active, and it does not remove cookies already stored on your device. Section 9 explains how to delete existing cookies.
8. Advertising Cookies in More Detail
We display advertising through Google AdSense.
Google and its advertising partners use cookies to serve advertisements based on your prior visits to this and other websites. Depending on your location and your consent, the advertising you see may be personalized or non-personalized.
Non-personalized advertising still relies on cookies. It uses general location and the content of the page to choose advertisements, and it uses cookies for frequency capping, measurement, and fraud prevention.
You can control the advertising Google shows you at Google Ads Settings, and read how Google uses information from sites that use its services at Google’s partner sites policy.
Industry opt-out tools for other advertising providers:
- YourAdChoices for the United States
- Your Online Choices for Europe
- Network Advertising Initiative
These tools set an opt-out preference in your browser. Clearing your cookies removes that preference, so you may need to set it again.
9. Controlling Cookies in Your Browser
Your browser lets you block cookies, delete existing cookies, and clear site data. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will break parts of the site.
Settings apply per browser and per device, so repeat them anywhere you read the site.
10. Global Privacy Control
Some browsers and extensions send an automated signal such as Global Privacy Control. Where the law requires us to honour it, for example under California law, we treat it as a valid request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for that browser.
These signals are browser and device specific, so enable the setting on each browser you use.
11. Do Not Track
There is no agreed industry standard for responding to browser Do Not Track settings, and this site does not respond to them. We do honour recognized opt-out signals as described in Section 10.
12. Embedded Content
Our pages include embedded content such as videos. When you interact with embedded content, the provider can set its own cookies and collect information about you as if you had visited its site directly.
We do not control these cookies. Review the privacy and cookie policies of any service whose content you interact with.
13. Analytics in More Detail
We use Google Analytics to understand site usage in aggregate. Google Analytics 4 does not log or store full IP addresses.
You can prevent Google Analytics from using your data with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
14. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when our services, technology, or legal obligations change. Material changes are reflected in the date at the top of this page, and where the law requires it, we will ask for your consent again.
Check this page when you want to confirm what is currently in use.
15. Contact Us
For questions about cookies or this policy:
Email: contact@ilmrary.com Contact page: https://ilmrary.com/contact/
Begin your subject line with Legal so your message reaches the right place.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, Disclaimer, Copyright Policy, Advertising Policy, and Corrections Policy.