Last updated: September 29, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how vex6.lol uses cookies and similar technologies, what they do, and how you can control them. Read it alongside our Privacy Policy.
What Cookies Are
A cookie is a small text file a website places on your browser or device. Cookies let a site recognize your browser on a later visit, remember preferences, keep the site secure, and — for advertising cookies — infer the kinds of content you engage with across sites. “Similar technologies” include web beacons (tiny images), pixels, scripts, and browser local storage, which work in comparable ways. In this policy we call all of them cookies.
First-party cookies are set by vex6.lol itself. Third-party cookies are set by other companies, such as Google, whose content or services appear on our pages. Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser; persistent cookies remain until they expire or you delete them.
Categories of Cookies Used Here
| Category | Purpose | Set by | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Core site functions, security, load balancing, and page caching | This site and our hosting provider | Session to 1 year |
| Preference | Remembering display settings, comment details you choose to save, and your cookie consent choice | This site | Up to 1 year |
| Analytics | Aggregate measurement of traffic and which articles are read | Analytics providers such as Google Analytics | Up to 2 years |
| Advertising | Serving, frequency-capping, measuring, and personalizing ads; preventing ad fraud | Google (AdSense) and other ad vendors | Up to 13 months |
Examples of Specific Cookies
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
__gads, __gpi, __eoi |
Google AdSense | Ad serving, frequency capping, and measuring ad performance |
IDE, DSID, test_cookie |
Google (doubleclick.net) | Serving and personalizing ads based on prior visits; checking whether the browser accepts cookies |
NID, AEC |
Remembering preferences and preventing abuse across Google services | |
_ga, _ga_* |
Google Analytics (if enabled) | Distinguishing visitors for aggregate traffic statistics |
FCCDCF, FCNEC |
Google consent tools | Storing your cookie consent choices in regions where consent is required |
comment_author_* |
This site (WordPress) | Remembering your name and email if you choose to save them when commenting |
Cookie names and lifetimes are set by the providers and may change over time. This list is illustrative, not exhaustive.
Advertising Cookies and Google
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet. Other ad networks may set their own cookies under their own policies. Learn more at How Google uses cookies in advertising.
We do not use cookies to build health-interest profiles, and we do not pass information about which health articles you read to advertisers ourselves. Google’s policies prohibit personalized advertising based on sensitive health categories.
Consent
Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland are asked for consent before non-essential cookies (analytics and personalized advertising) are set. You can change your choice at any time through the consent option shown on the site or by clearing your cookies, which will show the consent message again. Visitors in U.S. states that provide a right to opt out of targeted advertising can do so using the controls below or by enabling the Global Privacy Control signal in their browser.
How to Control Cookies
- Google personalized ads: Google Ads Settings.
- Multiple ad vendors: aboutads.info/choices, optout.networkadvertising.org, and in Europe youronlinechoices.eu.
- Google Analytics: Google Analytics opt-out add-on.
- Browser controls: every major browser lets you view, block, or delete cookies and offers private browsing. See the help pages for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge.
- Mobile devices: you can reset your advertising ID or limit ad tracking in your device’s privacy settings.
Blocking cookies will not remove ads, but it generally makes them less relevant. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may cause parts of the site to stop working correctly.
Changes
We may update this Cookie Policy when our use of cookies or the law changes. The “Last updated” date above shows when it was last revised.
Questions
Email support@vex6.lol.