Cookie Policy for Pathway365.com
Effective Date: June 18, 2024
Last Updated: August 3, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Pathway365 Media Group LLC (“Pathway365,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit https://pathway365.com and its related pages and subdomains (collectively, the “Website”).
This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites place on your computer, mobile device, or browser when you visit them.
Cookies and similar technologies can help websites:
- Function correctly
- Remember preferences
- Maintain security
- Understand how visitors use the Website
- Measure Website performance
- Deliver and measure advertising
- Prevent fraud and abuse
Similar technologies may include pixels, web beacons, tags, scripts, local storage, and device identifiers. In this policy, we generally refer to these technologies collectively as “cookies.”
2. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
First-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are placed directly by Pathway365. They may be used to provide essential Website functions, remember preferences, maintain security, and improve performance.
Third-Party Cookies
Third-party cookies are placed or accessed by outside service providers whose services appear on or support the Website.
These providers may include:
- Google Analytics
- Google AdSense and other advertising partners
- Microsoft Clarity
- Email and newsletter providers
- Website hosting, caching, security, and performance providers
- Embedded video, social-media, or content providers
Third parties may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, and other technologies according to their own privacy policies.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for essential Website operation and security. They may support:
- Page navigation
- Website security
- Fraud and spam prevention
- Cookie-consent preferences
- Network and server management
- Load balancing
- Form functionality
Because these cookies are necessary for the Website to operate, they generally cannot be disabled through our consent controls. You may still be able to block them through your browser, but doing so could prevent parts of the Website from working properly.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies help provide enhanced features and remember choices you make, such as:
- Display preferences
- Previously selected settings
- Certain form or Website preferences
- Media and embedded-content settings
Disabling these cookies may limit some Website features.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the Website. They may collect information about:
- Pages visited
- Time spent on pages
- Links clicked
- Referring websites
- Browser and device type
- Approximate geographic location
- Website errors and performance
- Scrolling and general interaction patterns
We may use Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity for these purposes. Information collected through these services helps us improve Website content, navigation, design, and performance.
Advertising Cookies
Advertising cookies may be used by Google AdSense and other advertising partners to:
- Display advertisements
- Personalize advertisements when permitted
- Deliver non-personalized advertisements
- Measure advertisement performance
- Limit how frequently an advertisement appears
- Detect invalid traffic, fraud, and abuse
- Understand interactions with advertisements
Google and other third-party vendors may place and read cookies on your browser or use web beacons, IP addresses, and similar technologies as a result of advertisements being served on the Website.
Non-personalized advertisements may still use cookies or similar technologies for purposes such as frequency limiting, aggregated reporting, security, and fraud prevention.
Embedded Content Cookies
Articles and pages may contain embedded videos, images, social-media posts, or other third-party content.
When you interact with embedded content, the third-party provider may place cookies or collect information as though you had visited its website directly. The provider’s own privacy and cookie policies govern its collection and use of information.
4. Cookies and Information Collected
Depending on the cookie and service involved, cookies may collect or process:
- IP address
- Browser and device information
- Operating system
- Pages viewed
- Links clicked
- Visit dates and times
- Referring and exit pages
- Approximate location
- Advertising identifiers
- Cookie identifiers
- Website interactions and preferences
Some cookie data may be considered personal information or personal data under applicable privacy laws.
5. How Long Cookies Remain
Cookies may be either:
- Session cookies, which generally expire when you close your browser
- Persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them
The duration of a cookie depends on its purpose and the provider that places it. Third-party providers may change their cookies and retention periods periodically.
6. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
Where required, you can accept, decline, or manage optional cookies through the Website’s cookie-consent controls.
[Cookie Settings]
The words “Cookie Settings” above should be connected to the actual privacy-settings button or link provided by your cookie-consent platform. It should reopen the consent panel when clicked.
Changing or withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before your preference was changed.
Strictly necessary cookies may continue to operate because they are required for Website functionality, security, or the storage of your privacy choices.
7. Google Advertising Choices
You can manage how Google personalizes advertisements through:
You may also find additional advertising opt-out choices at:
Opting out of personalized advertising does not necessarily prevent advertisements from appearing. It may cause the advertisements displayed to be less relevant to your interests.
Learn more about how Google uses cookies:
Learn more about how Google processes information from partner websites:
How Google Uses Information From Sites or Apps That Use Its Services
8. Google Analytics Opt-Out
Google provides a browser add-on that may help prevent Google Analytics from using your data:
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
9. Browser Controls
Most browsers allow you to view, block, or delete cookies. Blocking cookies through your browser may affect the appearance or functionality of the Website.
Browser instructions are available here:
- Google Chrome cookie settings
- Mozilla Firefox cookie settings
- Apple Safari cookie settings
- Microsoft Edge cookie settings
If you use another browser, consult its official support documentation.
10. Regional Privacy Choices
Depending on your location, you may have additional rights regarding cookies, personalized advertising, targeted advertising, or the sale or sharing of personal information.
Visitors in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and certain U.S. states may be shown a consent or privacy message containing location-specific choices.
For additional information about your privacy rights and how to submit a request, review our Privacy Policy or contact us.
11. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in:
- The cookies we use
- Our Website features
- Our service providers
- Legal or regulatory requirements
The revised policy will be posted on this page with an updated “Last Updated” date.
12. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, contact:
Pathway365 Media Group LLC
Website: https://pathway365.com
Email: info@pathway365.com