WiseQing Cookie Policy

Updated on January 15, 2023

Please read this cookie policy carefully as it contains important information about who we are and how we use cookies on our website. This policy should be read in conjunction with  our privacy policy , which generally explains how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information, as well as your rights regarding your personal information and details on how to contact us and supervisory authorities. 

Who are we?

WiseQing is a question and answer website.

our website

This cookie policy only relates to your use of our websites, apps and services listed below:

wiseqing.com.

Throughout our website, we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties to serve advertisements or provide analytical services. These other third-party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate policies. For privacy information regarding these other third-party websites, please see their policies.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that our sites store on your computer or mobile device when you visit our websites. Our websites, apps, and other services ("Sites") send this data to your browser the first time you request a web page, and then store the data on your computer or other device so that the website or app can access, store or collect the information. Your device the first time you request a web page. Browsers support cookies and similar technologies (such as local storage and pixels), so our websites can remember information about your visit and use this information to improve your experience and generate aggregated anonymized statistics about site usage.

Cookies may be set by the site you visit (“first-party cookies”) or by a third party (“third-party cookies”), such as those providing analytics or advertising services or interactive content on the site. In addition to using cookies on our sites, we may also serve our cookies on third-party sites operated by our advertisers who use our platform.

If you use the WiseQing Network, both WiseQing and third parties use cookies to track some of your activities on and off the WiseQing Network and to store and access certain data about you, your browsing history and your usage.

Third Party Cookies

Our third-party partners and other organizations that sponsor pages on WiseQing may use cookies or other technologies to learn more about your interest in their products and services, and in some cases to tailor such products and services to you.

Third Party Cookies: Our services also include cookies from third parties that we partner with or provide services to us. These include third-party companies that work with us or advertisers who advertise on the WiseQing Network to help target ads or measure the results of an ad campaign.

For more information about cookies in general, including how to control and manage cookies,   visit the cookie guide posted at https://www.aboutcookies.org or https://www.allaboutcookies.org .

Cookie categories

Absolutely Necessary

These cookies are necessary for our website to function properly and cannot be turned off in our systems. These are usually set in response to actions taken by you that amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling out forms, or where they are necessary to provide you with a service you have requested. You cannot disable these cookies. You can set your browser to block or warn you about these cookies, but if you do, some parts of the site will not work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

Specialization Cookie used as
wiseqing.com account, fkey 1st Party
google.com.tr __Secure-3PAPISID, __Secure-3PSID, __Secure-APISID, __Secure-HSID, __Secure-SSID, 1P_JAR, APISID, HSID, NID, SAPISID, SID, SIDCC, SSID 3rd party

In addition, some strictly necessary cookies are dynamically generated based on unique identifiers. These cookies are:

Specialization Cookie used as
wiseqing.com account 1st Party

Optional cookies

We will ask for your permission to place the cookies listed below on your device, but some functionality may not work properly if you disable them. We will only use these cookies with your consent when you agree to our use of cookies. These are described in more detail below.

Performance Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve our site's performance. They help us know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site, which helps us optimize your experience. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not be able to use your data in this way.

Specialization Cookie used as
wiseqing.com __qca, _ga, _gat, _gat_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, _gid, 1st Party
mc.yandex.ru sync_cookie_csrf, yabs-sid 3rd party
mc.yandex.com sync_cookie_csrf, sync_cookie_ok 3rd party
www.google-analytics.com fkey, ga_client_id 3rd party

Functional Cookies

These cookies allow the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. It can be determined by us or by third-party providers whose services we add to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, some or all of these services may not work properly.

Specialization Cookie used as
wiseqing.com wqus 1st Party

Targeting Cookies

These cookies can be set by our advertising partners through our site. They can be used by these companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other sites. They do not directly store personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

Specialization Cookie used as
wiseqing.com __gads, _dlt, _gat_legacyTracker, GoogleAdServingTest, urr 1st Party
youtube.com GPS 3rd party
Linkedin.com bcookie, language, li_gc, lidc, lissc, UserMatchHistory 3rd party
twitter.com guest_id, guest_id_ads, guest_id_marketing, personalization_id 3rd party
yandex.ru me, yandexuid, ymex 3rd party
doubleclick.net IDE, test_cookie 3rd party
ads.linkedin.com language 3rd party
bing.com MUID 3rd party
www.linkedin.com bscookie, JSESSIONID 3rd party
facebook.com fr 3rd party
yahoo.com A1, A1S, A3, B, GUC 3rd party
en.wikipedia.org WMF-Last Access 3rd party
www.facebook.com   3rd party

You can withdraw all consent to the use of cookies or manage other cookie preferences by visiting our Cookie Settings  or clicking at the bottom of each page of our websites. You can then turn the buttons on and off accordingly. It may be necessary to refresh the page to display the updated settings.

Our use of cookies

Third party access to cookies

Our third-party partners and other organizations that sponsor pages on WiseQing may use cookies or other technologies to learn more about your interest in their products and services, and in some cases to tailor such products and services to you.

Third-Party Cookies: Our services also include cookies from third parties with whom we directly or indirectly partner. Many of these third parties are companies that work with us or advertisers who advertise on the WiseQing Network to help target ads or measure the results of an ad campaign.

More about the cookies we use

General Browsing: We use cookies that are important for certain technical features of our website, such as logging into user accounts and applying fixes and improvements to our platform.

These cookies are:

  • Enable behavior on our Products and/or Services tailored to the activity or preferences of a person visiting our properties
  • Allow users to disable certain types of modeling, customization or customization in our products
  • Gather information about our users' preferences to create more useful products
  • Maintaining the usual business operations of our Advertising and Marketing departments (such as one-time pop-ups or "hero" screens when visiting a site for the first time and to collect impressions and click data)
  • Help diagnose and fix downtime, bugs and errors in our code to keep our products running efficiently

General Q&A Platform: We use cookies that support and enhance our overall Q&A platform by enabling key functionality. Such activities include tracking and attribution of reputation and badges based on site activity.

These cookies are:

  • Verify the authenticity of people trying to access a specific user account
  • Enable a core platform of community-generated Q&A, including diagnosing and resolving issues on our Q&A platform
  • Identify individual users to associate events and rewards

Advertising: We use cookies to advertise with our third-party Partners, which allows us to offer many of our services for free.

These cookies are:

  • Customize the ad experience for our users, including tailoring business and display ads based on the technologies a person has previously viewed, the communities a person has visited, and the job postings a person has seen before
  • Allow direct communication between a 3rd party partner hosting a promotional event with us and users who choose the promotion
  • Allow us to track when a WiseQing user sees or clicks on an ad or later visits a third-party website or purchases a product on a third-party website
  • Collect impressions and click data for internal reporting and product optimization

Analytics: We use cookies to compile usage activity to better deliver our Products and Services to you and third parties. We do NOT share identifiable "raw" data with our customers or any third parties, but we make high-level decisions based on aggregated data about your use of our Products and Services.

These cookies are:

  • Monitor site traffic and user behavior streams
  • Measure the effectiveness of on-site products
  • Measure the effectiveness of off-site marketing campaigns and tactics

How to turn off all cookies and its consequences

If you do not wish to accept any cookies, you can change your browser settings so that cookies (including those necessary for the requested services) are not accepted. Please note that if you do, you may lose some functionality of our website.

For more information on cookies and how to disable them, please visit  www.aboutcookies.org  or  www.allaboutcookies.org  .

your browser settings

Your browser includes controls that allow you to manage the use of cookies by the sites you visit. Most browsers have features that allow you to view and delete cookies stored on your device and to block cookies from all or selected sites.

Your browser may be initially set to accept cookies, but you can change your settings to alert you when a cookie is set or updated, or to block cookies altogether.

Please note that when you block any or all cookies, you may not be able to access certain features, content or personalization on the website.

Please refer to your browser's "Help" section for more information. You can also click on the links below to get more information from external help materials for some popular browsers:

Your mobile device settings

Your mobile device may also contain browser settings that allow you to manage the use of cookies, especially if the device supports the installation of applications such as iOS and Android devices. iOS and Android devices also include additional device settings that control whether advertising partners can use information about your app activity for advertising purposes. On iOS,  you can look for a setting called Limit Ad Tracking.  On Android, you can look for a setting called Disable Ads Personalization .

Third-party deactivation

Large online advertising industry groups offer tools to limit how cookies are used by participating third parties for advertising purposes.  More information is available on these sites from the Network Advertising Initiative , the  Digital Advertising Alliance , and the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance  for users in the EU  . In addition, Google provides web users with the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to prevent data collection via  Google Analytics.

how to contact us

If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding this Cookie Policy, please contact WiseQing at:

[email protected]

Changes to this policy

We may change this policy from time to time, and when we do, we will notify you by posting it on our websites.