This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how Daily Known (“Daily Known”, “we”, “us”, “our”) uses them on our website https://dailyknown.com (the “Website”), and your choices regarding their use.
This policy should be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy, which provides further details on how we collect, use, and protect your information. By continuing to use our Website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy.
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at support@dailyknown.com.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device by your web browser when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
Cookies can be “session” cookies or “persistent” cookies:
- Session Cookies: These are temporary and are deleted from your device as soon as you close your web browser.
 - Persistent Cookies: These remain on your device for a set period specified in the cookie and are activated each time you visit the website that created that particular cookie.
 
2. How We Use Cookies
Daily Known uses cookies for several important purposes. These are essential for providing you with a seamless experience, understanding how you use our site, and supporting the business and financial news content we provide through advertising.
Our uses include:
- Operating our Website: To ensure the basic functions of our site work correctly.
 - Analyzing Performance: To understand how visitors use our Website, which content is most popular, and how we can improve our services.
 - Enhancing Functionality: To remember your preferences and settings (like login information or region) to provide a more personalized experience.
 - Serving Advertising: To display advertisements that are relevant to your interests and to measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns. This is crucial for funding our website.
 
3. Types of Cookies We Use
We use a combination of first-party cookies (set by Daily Known) and third-party cookies (set by our partners and service providers).
a) Strictly Necessary Cookies These cookies are essential for you to move around the Website and use its basic features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for (like accessing secure areas) cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing.
b) Performance and Analytics Cookies These cookies collect anonymous information about how visitors use our Website. For example, they help us understand:
- Which pages visitors go to most often.
 - How long visitors spend on a page.
 - If visitors get error messages from web pages.
 
We use this aggregated, anonymous data to improve how our Website works. We use Google Analytics for this purpose. Google Analytics uses its own cookies to collect this data. All information is anonymous and aggregated.
c) Functionality Cookies These cookies allow our Website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a cookie might be used to remember your login details so you don’t have to sign in every time.
d) Advertising and Targeting Cookies These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign.
- These cookies are typically placed by third-party advertising networks with our permission.
 - They remember that you have visited a website, and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers.
 - They may be used to build a profile of your interests to show you relevant ads on other sites.
 
4. Third-Party Cookies (Google AdSense)
A significant portion of our cookie usage comes from third-party services that are essential for operating a modern news website. Please note that we do not have control over these third-party cookies.
Google AdSense: We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on Daily Known. This service is critical to supporting our ability to provide high-quality business and financial news for free.
- Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Website.
 - Google’s use of advertising cookies (including the DART cookie) enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
 - These cookies may collect information about your browsing habits to make advertising more relevant to you.
 - You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ad Settings: https://www.google.com/settings/ads.
 - For more information on how Google uses data, please visit: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
 
Other Third Parties: We may also use other third-party services, such as social media sharing buttons (from Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, etc.) or embedded content (like YouTube videos). These services may also set their own cookies on your device. We encourage you to consult the respective cookie and privacy policies of these third parties for more information.
5. Your Choices: How to Manage and Disable Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can manage your cookie preferences at any time.
Please be aware: If you choose to block or delete cookies, some parts of the Daily Known website may not function properly or at all.
a) Browser Settings Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can change your browser settings to refuse some or all cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. The “help” or “settings” menu on your browser will provide instructions.
Here are links for managing cookies on popular browsers:
- 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/delete-and-manage-cookies-168dab11-0753-043d-7c16-ede5947fc64d
 - Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
 
b) Opting Out of Targeted Advertising To opt out of interest-based advertising from third-party advertisers, you can visit the following consumer choice-mechanisms:
- Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA): http://www.aboutads.info/choices/
 - Network Advertising Initiative (NAI): [suspicious link removed]
 - European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA): http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/
 
6. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, or legal requirements. We will post any changes on this page and update the “Effective Date” at the top. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us:
Website: Daily Known Email: support@dailyknown.com
