Cookie Policy Effective Date: August 15, 2025 This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them on https://www.sms-ol.com ("our website"), and the choices you have regarding their use. This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy. **1. What Are Cookies?** Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device by a website when you visit it. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the site owners. Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. A persistent cookie remains on your device for a set period or until you delete it, while a session cookie is deleted once you close your web browser. **2. How We Use Cookies** Our website, sms-ol.com, does not directly set any cookies to collect personal information from you. Our primary goal is to provide our service without gathering personal data. However, we use several third-party services that set cookies on your browser to help us operate, analyze, and monetize our website. These services are essential for analyzing our website's performance, ensuring its security, and providing the revenue that keeps our service free to use. **3. Third-Party Cookies** The following is a list of the third-party services we use that may place cookies on your device: **a) Google AdSense** We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our website. * **Purpose:** These cookies are used by Google to display personalized ads based on your previous visits to our website and other websites on the internet. They are also used for ad frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting, and to combat fraud and abuse. * **Types of Cookies:** Google AdSense uses advertising cookies to track your browsing habits and show you ads that are more likely to be of interest to you. * **More Information:** For more details on how Google uses cookies in advertising, please visit: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads **b) Google Analytics** We use Google Analytics to analyze our website traffic and user behavior. * **Purpose:** These cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from, and the pages they visited. We use this information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. * **Types of Cookies:** These are analytical/performance cookies. For example, cookies with names like `_ga`, `_gid`, `_gat`. * **More Information:** To learn more about Google Analytics cookies and privacy, visit: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 **c) Microsoft Clarity** We use Microsoft Clarity to capture how users interact with our website. * **Purpose:** These cookies help us understand how users experience our website (e.g., how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click). This allows us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. The data collected is used for user behavior analytics, including heatmaps and session recordings. * **Types of Cookies:** These are analytical cookies. For example, `_clck`, `_clsk`. * **More Information:** For details on Microsoft's cookie usage, please refer to the Microsoft Privacy Statement: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement **d) Cloudflare** We use Cloudflare for security and performance optimization (as a Content Delivery Network or CDN). * **Purpose:** Cloudflare may place a cookie (e.g., `__cfduid`) to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. This cookie is strictly necessary for Cloudflare's security features and cannot be turned off. It does not correspond to any user ID in your web application and does not store any personally identifiable information. * **Types of Cookies:** Strictly necessary cookies. * **More Information:** You can learn more by visiting Cloudflare's privacy policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/ **4. Your Choices and How to Manage Cookies** You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences through your web browser settings. * **Browser Controls:** Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can set your browser to block all cookies, accept only certain cookies, or to alert you when a cookie is being sent. Please note that if you block all cookies (including essential cookies like those from Cloudflare), you may not be able to access all or parts of our site. * Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647 * Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences * Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy-bb8174ba-9d73-dcf2-9b4a-c582b4e640dd * Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac * **Opting Out of Personalized Advertising:** To opt out of interest-based advertising from Google AdSense, you can visit Google's Ad Settings: https://www.google.com/settings/ads. You can also visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ to opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for personalized advertising. * **Opting Out of Analytics:** To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. **5. Changes to This Cookie Policy** We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. We encourage you to review this page periodically for the latest information on our cookie practices. **6. Contact Us** If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us via our website (admin at sms-ol.com).