Last updated: 7 August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, which ones Gist Edge uses, and how you can control them. It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy.
1. What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They let a site remember your actions and preferences over time, and let advertisers and analytics providers recognise a browser across visits. Similar technologies — local storage, pixels and web beacons — do comparable jobs, and everything in this policy applies to them too.
2. The Cookies We Use
Strictly necessary
These make the Site work and cannot be switched off. They remember your cookie choices, keep security features functioning, protect our forms from spam, and support page caching. They do not track you for advertising.
Preferences
These remember choices you make, such as your display preferences, so the Site behaves consistently on your next visit.
Statistics / analytics
These help us understand which articles are read, how readers arrive, and where pages are failing them. We use this in aggregate to decide what to write next. Analytics cookies are only set where you have consented.
Marketing / advertising
Gist Edge is funded by advertising. Where you consent, advertising cookies are used to measure ad performance and to show ads that are more relevant to you.
- Google AdSense serves the advertising on this Site. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this Site and to other websites.
- Google’s DoubleClick DART cookie may be used to serve ads based on your visits to this and other sites.
- Other third-party ad networks may also serve ads here and set their own cookies. We do not control those cookies, and this policy does not cover them — consult the relevant network’s own privacy policy.
If you do not consent to marketing cookies, you will still see advertising, but it will be non-personalised — chosen by context rather than by your browsing history.
3. Managing Your Choices
On this site
When you first visit, a consent banner lets you accept or refuse each non-essential category. You can change your decision at any time using the cookie preferences link in our footer. Your choice is stored in a cookie, so clearing your browser data will make the banner appear again.
Opting out of personalised advertising elsewhere
- Google Ads Settings — control how Google personalises ads to you across the web.
- Google advertising technologies — including how to decline the DART cookie.
- www.aboutads.info/choices — industry opt-out covering many vendors at once.
- www.youronlinechoices.eu — the equivalent for the EU.
In your browser
Every major browser lets you block or delete cookies through its settings, usually under Privacy or Security. Blocking all cookies will break parts of this and most other websites, including the mechanism that remembers you refused cookies here.
4. How Long Cookies Last
Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies stay until they expire or you delete them — consent records typically last up to a year, and advertising cookies are set and expired by the networks concerned according to their own policies.
5. Changes to This Policy
We update this policy when the cookies we use change. The “last updated” date above tells you when it was last revised.
6. Contact Us
Questions about cookies on this Site: hello@gistedge.net