This page explains which cookies and similar browser storage soundcontroltech.com uses, what each kind is for, which ones are not ours at all, and how to control them. It sits alongside our Privacy Policy, which covers the wider question of what data the site handles.
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to keep, so that something can be remembered between page loads. Browsers also offer two related stores, local storage and session storage, which do a similar job without being sent back to the server on every request. Where this page says “cookies”, treat it as covering all three.
One thing worth stating up front: on a normal anonymous visit, where you read a page and do not interact with a form or a cart control, this site sets very little. The heavier cookie activity described below happens when you interact with something, and the third party cookies happen once you have left for Amazon.
Strictly necessary cookies
These keep the site working and cannot sensibly be switched off while you use it.
- WordPress session and login cookies. Set only if somebody signs in to the site’s administration area. Ordinary readers never receive them, because there are no reader accounts here.
- WooCommerce cookies. The product catalog on this site runs on WooCommerce, so cart and session cookies can be set if you touch a cart or catalog control. Nothing is sold from this site, so these do not carry payment or order data.
- Security and anti abuse. The contact form and the site’s bot protection use a short lived token to tell a real submission from an automated one.
Performance and caching cookies
The site sits behind a caching layer, both a caching plugin on the server and a content delivery network in front of it. These can set a cookie that records which version of a page you should be served, for example a cached page as opposed to a live one, or that helps the network distinguish genuine traffic from automated traffic. They hold technical values, not anything about you personally, and they exist so pages load quickly and stay available.
Measurement cookies
We keep basic traffic statistics so we know which pages are worth maintaining. To do that, a randomly generated visitor identifier is stored in your browser, and page views are sent to a measurement endpoint on a separate domain we operate. The identifier is a random string. It is not your name, your email address, or an account, and it is not sold, shared with advertising networks, or used to build a profile for targeting.
What it is used for is counting: how many people read a page, whether a repeat visit is the same browser, which page a visitor arrived from, and which outbound links get clicked. If you clear your browser storage, the identifier is gone and the next visit counts as new.
Amazon’s cookies, which are not ours
This is the part most readers actually want to understand. When you follow a product link from this site you leave for Amazon, and Amazon sets its own cookies on arrival. One of those records that you arrived through our affiliate identifier, so that a later purchase can be attributed to this site. Amazon documents that attribution window as lasting 24 hours, or until you place an order.
We do not set those cookies, we cannot read them, and we cannot delete them for you. They are governed by Amazon’s own cookie notice and privacy policy, which apply from the moment you land there. What we receive back from Amazon is aggregate reporting on clicks and earnings, never the identity of the person who clicked. Our own Affiliate Disclosure explains that relationship in full.
The social sharing buttons on the site work the same way. Sharing a page hands you to that network, and from that point the network’s own cookies and policies apply.
How to manage cookies
Your browser, not this site, is where cookies are ultimately controlled. In Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari the relevant controls sit under Settings, then Privacy, where you can view stored cookies, delete them for one site or for everything, block third party cookies, or block cookies entirely. Browsing in a private or incognito window keeps cookies for the length of the session and discards them when the window closes.
Blocking cookies for this site will not stop you reading anything. Pages here are static reading material, and nothing behind a login matters to a visitor. What blocking does affect is measurement, since your visits stop being counted, and affiliate attribution, since a purchase you make after clicking through may no longer be credited to this site. Neither of those changes anything about your purchase or your price.
Browsers also offer a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal. We do not run cross site advertising trackers, so there is nothing here for such a signal to switch off.
Changes and questions
If the tools this site uses change, this page gets updated. For anything unclear, write to [email protected] or use the contact page.