Last updated: 14 September 2026
This page describes the cookies and similar technologies used by aquariumlifehub.com.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make sites work, improve performance, and deliver relevant advertising.
We also use similar technologies alongside cookies. Web beacons and pixels are small files embedded in a page that record that the page was loaded, along with your IP address, browser and device type. Local storage keeps small amounts of data in your browser between visits. Where this page says cookies, it covers all of these.
Cookies we use
1. Strictly necessary cookies
Required for the site to function. These include session cookies and security cookies. They cannot be switched off.
2. Analytics cookies
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the site: which pages are popular, where readers arrive from, and where they run into trouble. We read this as aggregate reporting rather than individual profiles, but the underlying data includes your approximate location derived from your IP address, your device type and your browser.
3. Advertising cookies
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this site or to other sites. Google’s use of advertising cookies lets Google and its partners serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and other sites on the internet. These vendors may also use web beacons and your IP address to select and measure ads. They are set and read by those third parties, not by us, and we do not control them. Google describes how it uses this data on its advertising and privacy page.
Managing cookies
You can disable cookies through your browser settings – see allaboutcookies.org for instructions for each major browser.
To opt out of personalised advertising from Google, use Google Ad Settings. For a wider set of vendors, use the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out, or Your Online Choices in the EU. Opting out does not remove ads; it means they are chosen using general signals rather than your browsing history.
How long cookies last
Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies stay until they expire or you clear them, which for analytics and advertising cookies is typically months rather than days. The exact lifetime is set by whoever placed the cookie, so for third-party advertising cookies that is the vendor rather than us. Clearing cookies in your browser removes all of them, including ours.
For the wider picture of what we collect and why, see our Privacy Policy.
Changes
We may update this policy as our use of cookies changes. The “Last updated” date at the top shows when it last changed.