1. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a text file that is downloaded to the user’s device when accessing certain websites with the purpose of storing and retrieving information about the browsing activity performed from that device.
In accordance with current regulations, we must inform you about the use of cookies so that you, as a user, can consent to our use of them. If you continue browsing our Website, this will be understood as acceptance of the use of cookies.
Regardless of the above, you may disable the use of cookies at any time as indicated in this document.
Disabling cookies will not usually prevent the use of this Website. However, depending on the type of cookie disabled, the functionality of the Website and our service may be limited or even blocked for certain features or actions.
2. What cookies are used on this Website?
Session Cookies
Session cookies allow users to be recognized on the Website so that any changes made, items selected, or data entered by the user are remembered from one page to another within the Website.
These types of cookies are deleted from your hard drive when you close your browser.
Performance Enhancement Cookies
These types of cookies store your preferences for certain tools or services so that you do not have to reconfigure them each time you visit our site. In some cases, they may be provided by third parties. Examples include: audio/video player volume, article sorting preferences, or compatible video playback speeds.
Advertising Cookies
These cookies help to expand the information about the ads shown to each anonymous user on nbamaniacs. Among other data, they store the duration or frequency of ad displays, interactions with the ads, and browsing patterns and/or user behavior as they help to create a profile of advertising interests. This allows for ads to be shown that are aligned with the user’s interests.
To manage advertising on nbamaniacs, we use third-party advertising service tools (Adservers). These third parties may store cookies sent from nbamaniacs’ websites coming from users’ browsers, as well as access the data stored in them.
The companies that generate these cookies have their own privacy policies.
Currently, nbamaniacs uses Google’s Doubleclick platform to manage these services. For more information, visit https://www.google.es/policies/privacy/.
Other Third-Party Cookies
On some of our pages, third-party cookies may be installed to manage and improve the services they offer. An example is social media sharing buttons. Another example is comment cookies used by Disqus to keep you signed in and personalize your experience and shown ads. Disqus allows you to minimize tracking cookies here. Memberful also uses cookies to keep subscriber accounts open and allow ad-free access to nbamaniacs.
We also use cookies from affiliate service platforms that install browser cookies to track sales generated through the website. For example, if you click on a link on nbamaniacs to Amazon, NBA League Pass, NBA Store, or Nike (services we are affiliated with), and you end up purchasing or signing up, these cookies will inform the provider that it was done through our affiliate link. This helps us earn a commission to support the maintenance of nbamaniacs.
Social Media Cookies:
Social media cookies may be stored in your browser while you browse the website, for example when you use the share button on an nbamaniacs article on a social platform.
The companies that generate these social media cookies used on this blog have their own cookie policies:
- Twitter cookie, as provided in its Privacy and Cookie Policy.
- Google+ cookie, as provided in its Cookie Policy.
- Pinterest cookie, as provided in its Privacy and Cookie Policy.
- LinkedIn cookie, as provided in its Cookie Policy.
- Facebook cookie, as provided in its Cookie Policy.
- YouTube cookie, as provided in its Cookie Policy.
- Instagram cookie, as provided in its Cookie Policy.
Therefore, privacy implications will depend on each social network and the privacy settings you have on that platform. In no case can nbamaniacs or its advertisers obtain personally identifiable information from these cookies.
Web Analytics
This Website allows the use of cookies from the “Google Analytics” tool, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., a Delaware company with its main office at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, USA (“Google”), which uses “cookies.” The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
According to Google, Google Analytics is governed by Google’s general terms, available at http://www.google.com/analytics/tos.html, and Google’s privacy policy, available at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html#toc-faq. Google complies with GDPR.
What information is collected through cookies and what does nbamaniacs receive?
Google Analytics collects user interactions on the website (visit time, whether the user has previously been on the site, referring site, IP address, etc.).
Google Analytics does not provide nbamaniacs with the user’s actual IP address; it only provides statistical information about visits (unique visitors, number of visits, pages viewed, average duration, percentage of new/repeat visits, frequency, pages visited), demographic data (language, country, city), or system data (browser, OS, ISP, device type).
What is the purpose of using Google Analytics?
Google Analytics is Google’s free web analysis tool that helps website owners understand how visitors interact with their website. It collects information anonymously and reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. Google Analytics uses its own cookie to track visitor interactions. The cookie stores information such as the time of the current visit, whether the visitor has been to the site before, and what site referred the visitor. Google Analytics customers can view various reports on how visitors interact with their websites to improve them and make them more visible.
How can I disable Google Analytics cookies?
Users can disable Google Analytics cookies at any time by:
- Installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on in your browser, which prevents Google Analytics from collecting information about your website visits. Available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=es. (Learn more about the Opt-out Add-on and Google Analytics privacy information at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html#toc-faq.)
- Using your browser settings, as detailed below.
nbamaniacs informs its users that (i) the collection of information about the use of this Website through Google Analytics is performed solely by Google, and nbamaniacs does not have access to such data (only aggregated, non-IP-associated data); (ii) Google determines the purpose and use of the data collected through Analytics, as well as cookie functioning and duration; (iii) according to Google, users may prevent this data collection by configuring their browser to reject cookies; and (iv) only EU countries generally share similar cookie and personal data protection standards.
nbamaniacs cannot control or be held responsible for the content or accuracy of Google’s referenced terms and privacy policies in this cookie policy.
This Website may contain links to other websites. nbamaniacs does not control or is not responsible for the cookies used by those external websites. For more information about third-party site cookies, we recommend reviewing their cookie policies.
3. How can I disable cookies?
The user can restrict, block, or delete Website cookies through their browser. Each browser has a different process. Below are links to how to manage cookies in the main browsers:
- Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647
- Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/es-es/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
- Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-we
- Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?locale=es_ES or https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/es/cookies/