Cookies are small pieces of text that are stored on your device when you visit a website. During your further visits to the website, the information stored in the cookie is sent back to the site. This allows the website to recognize you and tailor its content to your needs.
TheRaven website uses different types of cookies:
- Session cookies are temporary. They automatically expire once the user leaves the website. Session cookies usually are of first-party provenance and enable the necessary functioning of the website.
- Persistent cookies remain on your device and expire at a specific date. These cookies can be set by the website itself or by third parties in the operation of the website.
- First-party cookies belong to our website and allow to remember previous actions and data preferences of the user.
- Third-party cookies are set by third parties on the user’s device through our website, enabling third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (for example, report usage statistics or deliver advertisements).
The first-party and third-party cookies have a wide range of purposes, the main ones are described below.
Essential or strictly necessary cookies are a basic form of the website memory used to store preferences selected by users on a given site, allowing the use of some features, such as accessing secure areas of the website.
Performance cookies collect information about the way visitors use the website, for example, which pages users visit most often, or whether they get error messages from the web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. This information is anonymous and helps improve the browsing experience.
Functionality cookies allow the website to remember the choices you make (for example, the user name, language, or region) and provide enhanced, more personalized features. Functionality cookies are used to remember changes applied to the customizable parts of web pages. The received information from cookies can be anonymized. Besides, the browsing activity on other websites cannot be tracked.
Targeting or advertising cookies are used to deliver more interest-based advertising. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. This type of cookies is usually placed by advertising networks with our permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with the third parties. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to the site functionality provided by the third parties.