What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters.  They are on your computer or mobile device that uniquely identifies your browser or device. Why do we use cookies? Cookies allow a site or service to know if your computer or device has visited that site or service before. Cookies can then help to understand how the site or service is used, help you navigate between pages efficiently. Help remember your preferences and generally improve your browsing experience. It can also help ensure marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests.

What types of cookies does Stepshowto use?

There are generally four categories of cookies: “Strictly Necessary,” “Performance,” “Functionality,” and “Targeting.” Stepshowto routinely uses all four categories of cookies on the Service. You can find out more about each cookie category below.

Strictly Necessary Cookies.

These cookies are essential, as they enable you to move around the Service and use its features, such as accessing logged-in or secure areas.

Performance Cookies.

These cookies collect information about how you have used the Service. For example, information related to the unique username you have provided so that less strain is placed on our backend infrastructure. These cookies may also be used to allow us to know that you have logged in so that we can serve you fresher content than a user who has never logged in. We also use cookies to track aggregate Service usage and experiment with new features and changes to the Service. The information collected is used to improve how the Service works.

Functionality Cookies.

These cookies allow us to remember how you log in. Whether you made an edit to an article on the Service while logged out, when you logged in or out, and the state or history of Service tools you’ve used. These cookies also allow us to tailor the Service to provide enhanced features and content for you. Remember how you’ve customized the Service in other ways, such as customizing the toolbars we offer in the right column of every page. The information these cookies collect may be anonymous. Cookies do not track your browsing activity on other sites or services.

Targeting Cookies.

Stepshowto, our advertising partners, or other third-party partners may use these types of cookies to deliver advertising that is relevant to your interests. These cookies can remember that your device has visited a site or service, and may also be able to track your device’s browsing activity on other sites or services other than Stepshowto. Organizations outside Stepshowto can have this information. Such as advertisers and/or advertising networks to deliver the advertising, and to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign or other business partners for the purpose of providing aggregate Service usage statistics and aggregate Service testing.

First-party cookies

First-party cookies are cookies that belong to Stepshowto. These cookies enable features on Stepshowto. Such as logging in to the Service and allowing access to secured tools or pages as described above.

Third-party cookies

Third-party cookies are cookies that another party places on your device through our Service. Someone providing a service for Stepshowto can place it on your device. For example, they help us understand how our service is used. Third-party cookies may also be placed on your device by our business partners. So that they can use them to advertise products and services to you elsewhere on the Internet. Third-party cookies on Stepshowto include the following:

Google Analytics

Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how visitors to Stepshowto use our website. It does not receive information from Stepshowto related to your user name, and your IP address is truncated by Google analytics. Data in Google Analytics can only be viewed in an aggregated fashion, and cannot be tied to individual users. Learn more about Google Analytics and privacy from google policies You can opt-out of Google Analytics tracking via google tools

Google AdSense and DoubleClick

Google AdSense and DoubleClick use cookies to serve advertising on some pages of the Stepshowto Service. These cookies customize the advertisements that you see to provide ads that are relevant to you. Visitors in some locations may see ads based solely on the page’s content. That is not based upon any personalized information. Learn more about advertising cookies at google policies How long will cookies stay on my device? The length of time a cookie will stay on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your computer or mobile device until they expire. How to control and delete cookies If you want to delete cookies follow the instructions at How to Clear Your Browser’s Cookies. If you wish to disable your browser from receiving cookies follow the instructions at How to Disable Cookies.

Note:

If you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain parts of our Service and other parts of our Service may not work properly. You can find out more information about cookie settings at third-party information sites, such as developer Mozilla