Cookie Policy

Last updated: September 3, 2026

This page explains the cookies and similar technologies used on sportshighlight.net, what each category is for, and how to control them. It sits alongside the Privacy Policy, which covers personal data more broadly.

What a Cookie Actually Is

A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to store and send back on later requests. Related technologies do much the same job by other means: local and session storage hold more data, pixel tags are invisible image requests that report that something loaded, and advertising creatives sometimes carry scripts of their own. Everything on this page applies to all of them, whatever the technical label.

Two distinctions matter. A first-party cookie is set by sportshighlight.net; a third-party cookie is set by another company whose code runs on our page, usually an advertising partner. A session cookie disappears when you close the browser; a persistent one stays until it expires or you delete it.

The Categories We Use

Strictly necessary

These make the site work: routing requests, keeping caches coherent, balancing load, blocking automated abuse, and remembering the privacy choices you have already made so you are not asked again on every page. They cannot be switched off through a consent notice, because without them the site cannot be delivered. They rest on our legitimate interest in operating the service you requested.

Preferences

These remember small choices that change how the site behaves for you, such as a dismissed notice. Blocking them costs you nothing except repetition.

Analytics and performance — none

We do not use this category. There is no statistics cookie on this site, no identifier of ours that follows your reading from one article to the next, and no analytics product installed. What we know about traffic is the count of pages requested, taken from the access log the web server keeps in any case and read in aggregate. No cookie is involved in that, so there is nothing here for you to accept or refuse.

Advertising and targeting

These matter most to your privacy, and they are set by our advertising partners rather than by us. They select which advertisement to show, cap how often you see the same one, measure whether an advertisement was genuinely visible, detect fraudulent traffic, and, where you have permitted it, build an interest profile used to target advertising to you across other websites.

In the EEA and the United Kingdom these are set only after you consent through the notice shown on your first visit. In the United States they may operate by default, subject to the opt-out rights described below and in the Privacy Policy.

How Long They Last

Strictly necessary and preference cookies typically run from a single session up to twelve months. Third-party advertising cookies vary widely, commonly between thirty days and thirteen months, and their duration is controlled by the partner that set them rather than by us.

Changing Your Mind

Consent is not permanent, and withdrawing it is as easy as giving it. Clear the cookies for this site in your browser and the consent notice reappears on your next visit, letting you answer differently. Withdrawal applies going forward; it does not undo processing that already happened lawfully.

Controlling Cookies in Your Browser

Every current browser can block third-party cookies, delete stored ones, or refuse cookies entirely.

Browsing in a private or incognito window is the bluntest and most reliable control, since everything is discarded when the window closes.

Industry Opt-Out Tools

These cover many advertising companies at once:

Each of these records your opt-out in a cookie of its own, so clearing your cookies also clears the opt-out. A browser-level Global Privacy Control signal is more durable, and we treat it as a valid opt-out request wherever the law recognizes it.

What Blocking Costs You

Blocking advertising cookies does not remove advertising from the site and will not make pages load without ads. It changes how they are chosen: contextually, from the subject of the article and a rough location, rather than from a profile of your browsing. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop parts of the site from working at all.

Changes and Questions

Advertising partners change, and so does the list of technologies in use. We revise this page when that happens and update the date at the top. Questions go to [email protected].