Last Updated: March 2024
This Cookie Policy describes how AllSides, our partners, and other third parties use cookies or similar technologies (such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs, JavaScript, and local storage). We refer to these cookies and similar technologies simply as "Cookies" throughout this Policy. We also describe what options you may have regarding those Cookies. This Policy covers AllSides' use of Cookies that may be used in connection with our website and content hosted at https://www.allsides.com (the “Site”), mobile application, and other online products and services (collectively, the “Services”).
In some cases, we may use Cookies to collect information that is defined as personal data, or that can become personal data if we combine it with other information. In such cases, the AllSides Privacy Notice will apply in addition to this AllSides Cookie Policy.
- What are Cookies?
- How AllSides Uses Cookies
- How Long Cookies Stay on Devices
- Who Places Cookies on Devices
- How AllSides Uses Advertisements
- How to Manage Cookies
- AllSides Compliance with Cookie Laws and Regulations
- Cookie List
- Contact Information
What are Cookies?
A cookie is a small piece of data (a text file, usually consisting of letters and numbers) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites operate more efficiently and provide analytical information.
We classify these cookies into the following categories:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookies provide the service, application, and other essential functionalities of our Services.
- Performance Cookies. These cookies provide quantitative measurement of our Services and its resources used for purposes like troubleshooting and analytics. For example, we may use these types of cookies to ensure that visitors can easily find the information they are looking for on our Services.
- Functional Cookies. These cookies provide enhanced performance for some website resources and services as well as sometimes to adopt a higher level of personalisation on user experience.
- Targeting Cookies. These cookies provide behavioral advertising and re-marketing of analytical data. One purpose of this is to help make the content displayed on our Services more relevant to you. Another purpose is to allow us and our service providers to deliver advertisements or other communications to you that are designed to be more relevant to your apparent interests.
How AllSides Uses Cookies
We and our service providers may use Cookies for a variety of purposes, including to:
- Help us and third parties obtain information about your visits to the Services;
- Manage your account;
- Analyze your visiting patterns to improve our Services;
- Deliver advertising, communications, social features, and content from us and third parties, on our Services and those of third parties, specific to your interests;
- Remember your language and other preferences;
- Help you obtain information you are looking for;
- Provide a safe and secure service for online transactions
- Measure how many people use our Services, and how they use them, to keep our Services running efficiently and to better understand our Services' audiences.
- If you register on one of our Services or otherwise provide us with your personal information, we may associate that information with other information we collect from or about you or that you provide, information regarding your use of our Services, or information we receive from or about you from third parties. We will use this combined data for marketing and analytics purposes.
How Long Cookies Stay on Devices
Some of our Cookies operate from the time you visit an AllSides service to the end of that particular web-browsing session. These Cookies expire and are automatically deleted when you close your internet browser. These Cookies are called "session" Cookies.
Some Cookies will stay on your device between browsing sessions. They do not expire when you close your browser. These Cookies are called "persistent" Cookies. The length of time a persistent cookie stays on your device varies from cookie to cookie. We and others use persistent Cookies for a variety of purposes, such as to store your preferences so that they are available for the next visit, and to keep a more accurate account of how often you visit our Services, how often you return, how your use of the Services may vary over time, and the effectiveness of advertising efforts.
Who Places Cookies on Devices
Cookies may be placed on your device by AllSides as the Site operator. These Cookies are called "first party" Cookies. Some Cookies may be placed on your device by a party other than AllSides. These Cookies are called "third party" Cookies. For example, an AllSides partner may place a third-party cookie to enable advertisements.
Cookies may also be used that allow us and third parties to know when you visit our Services, and to understand how you interact with emails, advertisements, or other content. Through Cookies, aggregate and other information not considered to be personal data (such as your operating system, browser version, and the URL you came from, including from emails and advertisements) may be obtained and used to enhance your experience and understand traffic patterns. This technology counts the number of users who visit a particular service from specific banner advertisements outside the AllSides Site or who clicked on links or graphics included in email newsletters received from AllSides. It is also used as a tool to compile aggregated statistics about how AllSides Services are used, to perform and analytics and help us to optimize our Services, and to help serve you advertising based on your interests, as described in further detail below.
How AllSides Uses Advertisements
We and third parties, including technology partners, and service providers engage in interest-based advertising to deliver advertisements and personalized content that we and other advertisers believe will be of interest to you. To the extent third party vendors are using Cookies to perform these services for AllSides, AllSides does not control the use of this technology or the resulting information and is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.
Ads may be delivered to you based on your online or mobile behavior (on AllSides Services and non-AllSides websites), your search activity, your responses to one of our advertisements or emails, the pages you visit, your general geographic location, or other information. These ads may appear on our Services or on third party websites.
How to Manage Cookies
We provide a consent management tool that permits you to set cookie and tracking preferences. Please note that these preferences may be limited to the device or computer you used to access our Site when setting such preferences. You can manage your consent preferences by clicking the button in the site footer, or directly below:
AllSides Compliance with Cookie Laws and Regulations
AllSides is committed to compliance with all applicable data protection laws, including but not limited to the EU GDPR, and all applicable global regulations related to the use of Cookies. Where required by law, we require an explicit opt-in from you before placing any Cookies on your devices. If local law does not require an explicit opt-in, we offer you the opportunity to opt-out. However, we will place Cookies on your devices as stated above until you choose to opt-out.
As data protection laws change around the world, AllSides changes our policies, procedures and processes to ensure compliance with all relevant laws, regulations and directives.
Cookie List
Contact Information
If you have any questions about how AllSides uses Cookies, you can contact AllSides by emailing us at privacy@allsides.com or by sending a letter to AllSides Technologies, Inc, 8275 E 11th Ave. #200241, Denver, CO 80220-9998. Please include your contact information, the name of the AllSides Site or service, and a detailed description of your request or Cookie concern.
We may update this Policy from time to time in order to provide clarification or notice of changes to our practices. If we make changes, we will revise the Last Updated date at the top of this page. Changes to this Policy will be effective once they are posted unless otherwise indicated.