Cookie Policy
1. What this policy covers
A cookie is a small text file a site asks your browser to store. Some are required for the site to work at all; the rest are optional and we do not set them until you agree. This policy explains every category we use on seoland.in, what each one is for, and how to change your mind. It sits alongside our Privacy Policy, which covers personal data more broadly.
2. Strictly necessary — always on
These keep the site secure and functional, so they cannot be switched off. They do not track you across other sites and are not used for advertising.
- Security and anti-abuse: request filtering and rate limiting that keep the site available.
- Your consent choice: a single browser entry (
seoland-consent-v1) recording what you selected, so you are not asked on every page. It stays in your browser and is never sent to us. - Display preferences: interface state such as filters, stored locally in your browser.
3. Analytics — optional
Aggregate measurement that tells us which guides and tools people actually find useful, so we know what to maintain. We look at totals and trends, not individuals. Decline and the site behaves identically; we simply lose the count.
4. Advertising — optional
We show ads through Google AdSense, and that revenue is what keeps our webmaster tools free to use. With your permission, Google may set cookies to measure ad performance, limit how often you see the same ad, and personalise what is shown. Our publisher identifier is ca-pub-3082950433576754, which you can verify in our ads.txt file.
If you decline, ads may still appear but are non-personalised — chosen from general context such as the page topic rather than any profile of you. You can review Google's own controls at My Ad Center.
5. Google Consent Mode v2
Before any Google tag loads, this site sets its consent signals to denied by default. Nothing is granted until you choose. When you do, your selection is sent to Google as a consent update covering ad storage, ad user data, ad personalisation and analytics storage. This means the default state for a first-time visitor is the private one, not the permissive one.
6. Visitors in the EEA and UK
Where a certified Consent Management Platform is active for this site, that platform governs the choice and our own banner deliberately stands down so you are never asked twice. Your selection there is the one that counts, and it is passed to Google through the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework.
7. Changing or withdrawing consent
You can change your mind at any time, and withdrawing is as easy as granting. Use the control below, or the Cookie settings link in the footer of every page.
You can also clear or block cookies in your browser settings. Blocking the strictly necessary ones may stop parts of the site working.
8. Questions
If anything here is unclear, or you want to know exactly what we hold, reach us through the contact desk. We answer cookie and data questions directly rather than routing them to a form queue.