Cookie Policy for 490th Bomb Group Website
This Cookie Policy explains how the “490th Bomb Group” website (“Website”) uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our Website. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies for several reasons, including:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Website, you cannot refuse them.
- Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Website, for example, which pages are visited most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies help us to improve the way our Website works. For example, we might use Google Analytics to understand how visitors arrive at our site and browse or use our site.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our Website to remember choices you make (such as your language preference) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize.
- Targeting or Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements 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 the advertising campaigns.
Types of Cookies We Use:
Specifically, the cookies we may use fall into the following categories:
- First-party cookies: These are cookies set by our Website directly.
- Third-party cookies: These are cookies set by third parties, such as Google Analytics, who provide services to us.
Examples of Cookies We Might Use (This is not exhaustive):
- Google Analytics: This helps us understand how visitors use our website (e.g., page views, traffic sources).
- Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies that expire when you close your browser. They are used to track your activity within a single browsing session.
- Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them. They are used to remember your preferences and settings for future visits.
How can you control cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies.
- Browser Controls: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Website though your access to some functionality and areas of our Website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.
- Specific Third-Party Cookies: For cookies placed through Google Analytics, you can usually opt-out directly through Google’s settings.
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us using the relevant page.
Updated January 2025