📋 Table of Contents
🍪 1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, remember your preferences, and provide useful information to website owners.
WhatMost uses cookies and similar technologies (such as local storage and pixels) to enhance your browsing experience and to support advertising through Google AdSense.
⚙️ 2. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- Essential functionality — keeping the website running smoothly (e.g. remembering admin login sessions)
- Performance & analytics — understanding how visitors use our site so we can improve content and navigation
- Advertising — enabling Google AdSense to display ads relevant to your interests
📊 3. Cookies We Use
| Cookie | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | Essential | Maintains admin login session | Session (until browser closes) |
| _ga, _gid | Analytics | Google Analytics — tracks visits, page views, and traffic sources | Up to 2 years |
| __gads, __gpi | Advertising | Google AdSense — personalized ad delivery and frequency capping | Up to 13 months |
| IDE, test_cookie | Advertising | Google DoubleClick — ad targeting based on browsing behavior | Up to 13 months |
🔗 4. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies are placed by third-party services that appear on our pages:
- Google AdSense — serves advertisements and may use cookies to show ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. Learn more at Google's Ads Policy
- Google Analytics — collects anonymized usage statistics
- Google Fonts — may log IP addresses when loading font files
We do not control these third-party cookies. Please review the respective privacy policies of these services for more information.
🎛️ 5. How to Manage Cookies
You have several options to control or limit how cookies are used:
- Browser settings: Most browsers let you refuse or delete cookies. Check your browser's "Help" menu for instructions (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge all support this)
- Google Ad Settings: Manage personalized advertising at google.com/settings/ads
- Opt-out tools: Use the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out page
- Analytics opt-out: Install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
🔄 6. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in technology, legislation, or our data practices. Any updates will be posted on this page with a revised "Last updated" date.
✉️ 7. Contact Us
If you have questions about our use of cookies, please contact us:
- Contact Form: whatmost.com/contact.php
- Email: privacy@whatmost.com
For more on how we handle your data overall, see our Privacy Policy.
This Cookie Policy is effective as of 21 June 2026
