Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how INTERES TOOLS ("we", "our", or "us"), available at Interesjournal.org, uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit and use our online utility platform. We believe in transparency and want to provide you with clear options to manage your cookie preferences. This document explains what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we deploy, and how you can control them.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide statistical and analytical information to website owners. Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. Cookies can also be "first-party" cookies (set by the website you are visiting) or "third-party" cookies (set by other domains that provide content, analytics, or advertising on the site).

2. Why We Use Cookies

We use cookies for several operational, analytical, and marketing reasons. Because INTERES TOOLS is a free platform supported by advertising, some cookies are essential to deliver relevant, personalized advertisements through **Google AdSense**. Other cookies help us save your preferences (such as quality settings, crop coordinates, and file lists) or analyze site traffic to improve our tools.

Specifically, we use cookies to:

• Remember your configuration parameters (like JPEG quality settings, scale coordinates, and delay factors).
• Understand how you navigate and interact with our tools, allowing us to optimize the interface and fix errors.
• Measure the effectiveness of our platform and server resources.
• Deliver personalized advertisements through Google AdSense and manage ad capping.
• Remember your consent preferences, such as whether you have accepted our cookie consent banner.

3. Types of Cookies We Deploy

The cookies used on our Website are classified into four main categories: Essential, Preference, Analytics, and Advertising cookies.

A. Essential Cookies (Strictly Necessary)

These cookies are essential to enable you to move around our Website and use its features. Without these cookies, basic website functionality (such as keeping track of your uploaded file buffers or saving session variables) cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather personal information about you that could be used for marketing or tracking your internet activity.

B. Preference Cookies

Preference cookies allow our Website to remember choices you make (such as your preferred tool configurations, aspect ratio locks, or color settings) and provide enhanced, personalized features. For example, they prevent you from having to re-adjust the compression slider every time you reload the JPG to PNG page.

C. Analytics and Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Website. They help us understand which pages are visited most frequently, how much time is spent on each tool, and whether users encounter error messages. The data collected by these cookies is aggregated and anonymized, meaning it cannot be used to identify individual visitors. We use this data solely to monitor and improve the performance of our utility tools.

D. Advertising and Marketing Cookies (Google AdSense)

Advertising cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see a specific advertisement, and help measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns. These cookies are typically placed by third-party advertising networks, such as Google AdSense. They remember that you have visited our Website and share this information with other organizations, including advertisers. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to our site and other websites on the internet.

4. Detailed Cookie Inventory Audit

Below is a list of the cookies commonly used on our Website, their category, provider, purpose, and expiration:

Cookie Name	Provider	Category	Purpose	Lifespan
__cfduid	Cloudflare	Essential	Used to identify trusted web traffic and speed up asset loading.	30 Days
cookie-consent	First-party	Essential	Saves whether the user accepted or rejected the cookie pop-up banner.	1 Year
active-tool-settings	First-party	Preference	Stores custom sliders, dimensions, and settings for various converters.	Session
_ga	Google Analytics	Analytics	Used to compile statistics on unique visitors and website usage metrics.	2 Years
_gid	Google Analytics	Analytics	Identifies separate sessions to calculate page bounce rates.	24 Hours
__gads	Google AdSense	Advertising	Serves advertisements, tracks views, and manages ad frequency limits.	2 Years
_gat	Google Analytics	Analytics	Used to throttle request rates to Google servers under peak traffic spikes.	1 Minute
IDE	Google DoubleClick	Advertising	Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report user activities after viewing ads.	1 Year
test_cookie	Google AdSense	Advertising	Set as a test to check if the browser supports cookies and cookie storage.	15 Minutes

5. Mobile-Specific Controls & Do Not Track Signals

In addition to browser settings, most mobile devices (iOS and Android) provide specialized settings that allow you to limit target tracking. On Apple iOS, you can navigate to Settings > Privacy > Tracking to toggle individual app tracking authorizations. On Android, you can adjust settings under Google > Ads to reset your advertising ID or opt out of interest-based ads. Furthermore, our Website processes Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals sent by your browser and will automatically configure analytics cookies to reflect your opt-out settings.

For mobile applications, cookies are handled by in-app sandboxed webviews. Clearing your standard mobile browser cookies will not clear cookies set within specific app wrappers (such as in-app browser tabs in Twitter or Facebook). You must clear cache data within the parent application to refresh consent states. Additionally, clearing cookies will reset your cookie preferences on INTERES TOOLS, and you will be prompted with the consent banner upon your next visit.

6. How to Manage and Control Cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can manage your cookie preferences using our interactive Cookie Consent Banner or by adjusting your web browser settings.

A. Browser Controls

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can configure your browser to block all cookies, accept only first-party cookies, or notify you whenever a cookie is set. Please note that if you choose to disable cookies entirely, some parts of our Website (such as preference saving and layout options) may not function correctly. To learn how to manage cookies on popular browsers, consult the following resources:

• Google Chrome Cookie Guide
• Mozilla Firefox Cookie Guide
• Apple Safari Cookie Guide
• Microsoft Edge Cookie Guide

B. Opting Out of Targeted Advertising

You can opt out of personalized third-party advertising by adjusting your settings in Google's Ads Preferences or by using the opt-out portals provided by the advertising industry:

• Google Ads Settings
• Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) Opt-Out
• Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) Opt-Out

7. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our operational practices, regulatory requirements, or the technologies we deploy. We will notify you of any changes by posting the revised Cookie Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of the document. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies.

8. Contact Information

For any questions or inquiries regarding our Cookie Policy, please contact us at support@interesjournal.org.