Last Updated on August 5, 2024

Utilization of Cookies 

Like many digital services, our platform employs both internal and external cookies for a multitude of reasons. Internal cookies are essential for the seamless operation of our site and do not gather any personally identifiable information.

External cookies on our platform primarily serve to gauge performance, monitor your engagement with our site, ensure security, deliver pertinent advertisements, and overall enhance your user experience, expediting your interactions in subsequent visits.

Categories of Cookies

We Employ Essential Cookies: These cookies are vital for accessing the full features of our site. They facilitate user session continuity and safeguard against security risks, without harvesting or storing personal data. For instance, they enable account access, basket additions, and secure checkouts.

Analytical Cookies: These cookies compile data such as visitor counts, unique visitor metrics, page visitation records, visit origins, etc. This information aids us in evaluating our site’s performance and identifying areas for enhancement.

Advertising Cookies: Our site presents ads, and these cookies tailor the advertising content to be relevant to you. They also track the effectiveness of these ad campaigns. Third-party advertisers may utilize the stored information to display ads on other sites within your browser.

Functional Cookies: These cookies support various non-critical features on our site, including embedding media like videos and enabling content sharing on social networks.

Preference Cookies: These cookies retain your customized settings and browsing preferences, such as language choices, to ensure a more streamlined experience in future visits.

Managing Cookie Preferences If you wish to modify your preferences during your browsing session, you may select the “Privacy & Cookie Policy” tab on your display. This action will prompt the consent notice to reappear, allowing you to alter your preferences or fully revoke your consent.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

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Technologies Utilized by Third-Party Advertisers 

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Limitations on Cookie Access 

Please be aware that Aucklandnewsroom does not possess the ability to access or influence these third-party cookies utilized by advertisers.

Privacy Policies of Third Parties 

The Privacy Policy of Aucklandnewsroom is not applicable to other advertisers or websites. Therefore, we recommend consulting the specific Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for comprehensive details. This may encompass their protocols and guidance on how to opt out of certain practices.