Cookie policy

This page lists the cookies and similar technologies that philippineconsulates.us uses, who sets them and what each one is for. It also says when they load and how to turn them off.

What a cookie is

A cookie is a small text file that a website stores in your browser. It can hold a setting, the record of a choice you made or an identifier. Similar technologies, such as local storage, work the same way and are covered by this policy too.

When analytics and advertising load

On this site, Google Analytics and the advertising load as soon as a page opens, without waiting for you to accept anything. You can turn them off at any time, and from then on they do not load on the pages you visit afterwards. Any of these works:

  • The button on our cookie settings page, from anywhere. Your choice is kept in this browser for one year.
  • Privacy Choices › Do not sell/share my personal information. Our consent tool shows it in the US states whose privacy laws require it, such as California.
  • Global Privacy Control. If your browser sends this signal, we treat it as a refusal and neither of them loads.
  • The consent banner that visitors from the European Union, the EEA and the United Kingdom see: choosing Do not accept has the same effect.

These choices cover Google Analytics and the advertising. Whatever had already loaded on the page where you refuse stays there until you leave it, and refusing changes nothing else: every page reads the same without them. For the partners of our consent tool, see below.

Who sets what

  • Strictly necessary. This site and its consent tool, Sirdata, keep the record of your choice in euconsent-v2, usprivacy and __sdgcm, for up to 360 days, and in csn_rechazo, the cookie that records a refusal made with our own button, for one year. They need no consent: without them, your choice could not be kept.
  • Analytics. Google Analytics 4, from Google, tells us in aggregate which pages are read and how people arrive. It can set _ga and _ga_*, which last up to two years.
  • Advertising. The ads are served by Adsterra, in a frame loaded from its own servers. To choose the ad, count views and clicks and detect fraud, it receives your IP address and details of your browser and device, and it may use its own identifiers there, under its own privacy policy.
  • Our consent tool’s partners. Sirdata, which provides the consent tool, also works with advertising partners such as Google, Amazon, Adobe, Xandr and Yahoo. When a page opens, they can set their own cookies to match identifiers between advertising systems. Privacy Choices › Do not sell/share my personal information stops this, and so does Global Privacy Control, in the states where our consent tool applies those choices. Our own button does not reach these partners: to stop them anywhere, block third-party cookies in your browser.

Turning cookies off in your browser

Every browser also lets you block or delete cookies. The controls are under Settings, usually within Privacy:

  • Chrome. Settings › Privacy and security › Third-party cookies
  • Safari. Settings › Privacy › Manage Website Data
  • Firefox. Settings › Privacy & Security › Cookies and Site Data
  • Edge. Settings › Cookies and site permissions

Deleting this site's cookies also deletes your refusal, because it is stored in one of them: after that, analytics and advertising load again until you refuse once more.

Changes to this policy

The cookies a website uses change as its tools change. We update this page when that happens, and the version published here is the one in force.

For anything about this policy, write to info@philippineconsulates.us. See also the privacy policy and the legal notice.

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