Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, phone, or tablet when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently, remember your preferences, and provide information to the website owners. Cookies can be “persistent” (remaining on your device until they expire or are deleted) or “session” cookies (deleted when you close your browser).

This Cookie Policy explains how Geekste uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on our website at https://www.geekste.com. It reflects the Website's current implementation and will be updated if we activate additional analytics or advertising technologies.

2. Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are necessary for the Website to function properly. They enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. These cookies do not collect information for marketing purposes and cannot be disabled through our settings.

On Geekste, essential cookies are used for:

• Theme Preferences: Remembering whether you prefer light or dark mode, stored in your browser's local storage.
• Session Management: Maintaining the state of your visit as you navigate between pages.
• Security: Protecting the Website and its users from malicious activity and abuse.
• Load Balancing: Distributing traffic across servers to ensure reliable Website performance.

3. Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how readers interact with Geekste — which articles are read most, how visitors find our content, and how they navigate through the Website. This information helps us improve the reading experience and make better editorial decisions.

We use Google Analytics for this purpose. Google Analytics cookies collect information including:

• Pages visited and time spent on each page
• Referring websites and search terms that brought you to Geekste
• Browser type, device type, and operating system
• Geographic region (at a country/city level, not precise location)

Google Analytics does not identify individual users. The data is aggregated and anonymized. You can learn more about Google Analytics cookies and opt-out options at Google's Cookie Policy.

4. Advertising Cookies

Geekste may introduce advertising technologies in the future, but this policy does not treat provider-specific advertising cookies as active unless that implementation is live on the Website.

If advertising is added later, those cookies may be used to:

• Serve ads that are more relevant to your interests (personalized advertising).
• Limit the number of times you see the same ad (frequency capping).
• Measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
• Prevent fraud and maintain ad quality.

When a provider such as Google AdSense is actually activated, we will update this section with the specific cookies, provider links, and available opt-out controls.

5. Preference Cookies

Preference cookies allow the Website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personalized features. On Geekste, these include:

• Theme Selection: Saving your light mode or dark mode preference so it persists across visits.
• UI State: Remembering interface states, such as whether certain navigation elements are expanded or collapsed.

These cookies improve your browsing experience but are not strictly necessary for the Website to function. Disabling them may reset your preferences on each visit.

6. Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, third parties may set cookies on your device through Geekste. These include:

• Google Analytics: As described in Section 3 above, when configured.
• Future Advertising Providers: If we activate an ad network later, we will update this policy before describing those third-party cookies as active.
• Future Advertising Partners: If we add additional advertising networks or affiliate tracking in the future, they may set their own cookies. We will update this policy accordingly.

We do not have direct control over the cookies set by third-party services. Their use is governed by their own privacy and cookie policies. We recommend reviewing the policies of these services for complete information.

7. Managing Cookie Preferences

You have several options for managing cookies:

Browser Controls

All major web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can typically:

• View what cookies are stored on your device.
• Delete individual cookies or all cookies.
• Block cookies from specific websites or all websites.
• Block third-party cookies specifically.
• Set your browser to clear cookies when you close it.

Here are links to cookie management guides for common browsers:

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

Opting Out of Specific Services

• Google Analytics: Install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
• Future Ad Personalization Controls: If we activate an ad platform later, the provider-specific opt-out links will be added here.

Impact of Disabling Cookies

Disabling cookies may affect your experience on Geekste:

• Theme preferences may reset on each visit.
• Some interactive features may function differently.
• If advertising technologies are introduced later, disabling related cookies may reduce ad personalization while preserving the core reading experience.

The core reading experience — accessing and reading our articles — will continue to work without cookies.

8. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies we use or for operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated “Last updated” date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

9. Contact

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, please contact us at contact@geekste.com or through our contact page.