Cookie Policy
This page lists the cookies and similar trackers this site uses, who sets them, and how to refuse the ones you do not want. Advertising pays for Wisata Hits, so some of them are not ours, and that is the part we try hardest to describe accurately.
Last updated: August 2026.
What we mean by cookies
A cookie is a small text file a site asks your browser to keep, holding a short value it can read back later. That is the whole trick. It is how the site remembers you already dismissed the consent notice, and how a counter knows your second page view came from the same visit as your first rather than from a new reader.
The same rules cover things that are not technically cookies. Local storage keeps a preference in the browser without sending it back on every request. A tracking pixel is a one-pixel image whose only job is to tell a server a page was opened. Vendors also read the signals every browser sends anyway, the device type, the language, the rough location behind your IP address, which is why refusing cookies reduces what can be built about you without reducing it to nothing.
The four kinds this site uses
Everything here belongs to one of four categories, and the consent notice groups them the same way.
- Strictly necessary. Serving pages, balancing load, turning away attacks, and remembering the choices you made in the notice itself. These cannot be switched off without breaking the site.
- Preferences. Small things you asked for, such as light or dark reading mode, text size, and whether the newsletter prompt has already been shown so it stops appearing.
- Analytics. Counting page views, telling a returning browser from a new one, recording which article sent you to the next, and reporting it to us in aggregate.
- Advertising. Recognising a browser across sites, capping how often you see the same ad, measuring whether a click led anywhere, and building the interest categories used to pick a personalised ad.
Necessary cookies run whatever you choose, because without them there is no page to read. The other three stay off until you turn them on, and the notice remembers your answer instead of asking again every visit.
Who else sets them
Ours are set from our own domain, and they are the necessary and preference ones plus the analytics tags we instruct. The rest come from other companies. The programmatic exchanges and ad networks that fill inventory we have not sold directly set advertising cookies and pass the request to their own partners. Our analytics provider sets the measurement cookies. Our delivery and security provider sets the ones that keep the site standing. The mail service records newsletter opens and clicks, inside the email rather than here.
We do not print vendor names on this page, and the reason is not evasion. Programmatic partner lists change without our involvement, and a name-checked list updated once a year would be wrong within weeks. The live list sits in the consent notice, every vendor named alongside its stated purposes and a link to its own policy. Our advertising terms explain what we require of those partners.
What changes if you refuse advertising cookies
You still get the whole site and you still see ads. What changes is how they are chosen. With advertising cookies on, a vendor that has seen your browser elsewhere picks from that history and can tell an advertiser how often you saw it. With them off, the ad comes from the page it sits next to, so a story about the electric two-wheeler subsidy gets a vehicle ad because of the story rather than because of you.
Non-personalised inventory pays us less. That is the honest trade, and we will not pretend the choice is free for us, but it is your data and the switch is yours. Nothing is paywalled and we do not nag readers who said no.
Changing your mind, in the notice or in your browser
The consent notice reopens from the link in the site footer, at any time, and what you change there applies immediately. Withdrawing consent is exactly as easy as giving it, which is the legal standard and also just decent. One quirk worth knowing: your choice is itself stored in a cookie, so clearing your cookies clears your answer and the notice asks again.
Outside our site you have further levers. Every browser can block or delete cookies under a privacy or site data setting, and most offer a stricter mode for third-party cookies, the setting that affects advertising most. Some browsers and extensions send a Global Privacy Control signal, which we honour as an opt-out. The advertising industry runs its own opt-out pages too: the Digital Advertising Alliance under the name YourAdChoices, the Network Advertising Initiative, and Google’s Ads Settings for personalisation across its own products. Those pages record your opt-out in a cookie of their own, so clearing cookies wipes it, a design we did not build and would not defend.
How long they last, and where this fits
Session cookies die when you close the browser, which covers most of the necessary ones. Our preference cookies, including the record of your consent choices, expire within a year, so a reader who has been away a long time is asked again. Analytics cookies commonly last up to two years by default and we shorten that where the provider allows. Advertising cookies run from a day to two years depending on the vendor, the one set of lifespans we do not control, so the notice lists them per vendor.
This page covers the technology. What happens to the data afterwards, who we share it with and what rights you have over it are in our privacy policy. If something here does not match what you see in your browser, tell us at support@wisatahits.blog with COOKIES in the subject line, and send the cookie name if you have it, because readers have caught things here before.
