Cookie Policy
A clear guide to site essentials, WordPress and community cookies, Google Analytics, Google AdSense and privacy choices.
Last updated · 20 October 2026
- 01Necessary — logins and security
- 02Preferences — optional site settings
- 03Analytics — audience measurement
- 04Advertising — Google AdSense
- 05Consent — meaningful choices
What this Cookie Policy covers
This Cookie Policy explains cookies and similar browser technologies associated with Onooks Dev (www.onooks.com). The website uses WordPress, member/community features, Google Analytics and Google AdSense.
Cookies and related storage can support authentication, saved choices, analytics and advertising. Which identifiers appear depends on login status, browser, enabled plugins, geographic location, Google configuration and consent choices. Cookie names below are documented examples, not an independently verified inventory of every live cookie.
Publisher: Onooks Dev · LiMiT. For legal-operator identification and privacy rights, see our Privacy Policy.
Contact: [email protected] · Contact form.
Cookie categories and legal basis
| Category | Purpose and provider | Consent approach |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | WordPress login, session authentication, safety and site integrity; essential community authentication | May operate without optional-cookie consent where strictly necessary under applicable law |
| Functional / convenience | Save commenter fields, remember language or feature preferences, member-interface settings | Consent where legally required; some essential preferences may qualify for exemptions |
| Analytics | Google Analytics measures visits, navigation and engagement | Opt-in consent where required before storing or accessing non-essential device data |
| Advertising | Google AdSense delivers, measures and may personalize advertising; fraud detection and frequency controls | Valid consent/appropriate legal controls depending on region, purpose, ad format and vendor |
| Embedded content | Third-party players, embedded media or external interactive resources, if loaded by a particular page | Consent when embedded features place or access non-essential device identifiers |
“Necessary” is not a general exemption for all ad or analytics tags. Visitors must have a real choice for non-essential processing where law requires one.
WordPress and community cookies
WordPress documents the following cookie families. Actual identifiers may contain a variable hash, user ID or configuration-specific suffix:
| Cookie / pattern | What it does | Typical lifetime |
|---|---|---|
wordpress_test_cookie |
Checks whether the browser permits cookies on login | Browser session |
wordpress_logged_in_* |
Recognizes an authenticated WordPress visitor | Typically 2 days, or up to 14 days when “Remember Me” is used |
wordpress_*, wordpress_sec_* |
Protects and authenticates WordPress administrative or secure sessions | Authentication session; commonly 2 or 14 days depending on settings |
wp-settings-*, wp-settings-time-* |
Remembers an account’s WordPress interface choices | Typically up to 1 year |
comment_author_*, comment_author_email_*, comment_author_url_* |
Remembers comment-form details when selected | Typically just under 1 year |
wp_lang |
Remembers the login-screen language | Browser session |
| BuddyPress and active community add-on cookies or local storage | Supports member preferences, activity filters and other enabled community behavior | Depends on enabled plugin, feature and configuration |
These are documented WordPress defaults and feature-related patterns, not a claim that every identifier was observed in a particular Onooks.com visitor session. WordPress configuration and plugin versions can change lifetimes and names. Disabling strictly necessary cookies may prevent login or secure account use.
Google Analytics cookies
Google Analytics helps measure readership, technical performance, sources of traffic and interactions. Modern Google Analytics tagging can use:
| Identifier | Provider / purpose | Typical lifetime |
|---|---|---|
_ga |
Google Analytics — distinguish browser users | Up to 2 years by default |
_ga_* |
Google Analytics — persist session state | Up to 2 years by default |
These are the default first-party cookie patterns documented by Google for its current web tagging. They are not universal guarantees: cookie-free analytics measurement, consent modes, browser policies and site configuration may lead to different behavior. Analytics consent does not automatically include advertising personalization consent.
See Google Analytics cookie documentation and Google Privacy Policy.
Google AdSense and advertising storage
Onooks.com uses Google AdSense to support the website through advertising. AdSense technology can use cookies and similar identifiers to deliver ads, measure impressions and clicks, prevent invalid traffic, limit repeat advertising, and personalize advertisements when allowed. Google describes both first-party and third-party cookies; some cookies may be associated with google.com, doubleclick.net or the website’s domain.
Depending on visitor choices and Google/partner configurations, Google advertising environments may use identifiers such as __gads, __gpi, IDE or other vendor-defined values. These are examples of advertising identifiers, not a verified live inventory for this site’s every ad placement. Actual vendor identities, purposes and retention periods must be shown in the active consent-management platform when required.
Google may provide personalized, contextual, non-personalized or limited ads depending on region, consent and product capabilities. Rejecting consent does not necessarily suppress every ad; it restricts the data uses requiring that consent. See How AdSense uses cookies, Google My Ad Center and Google advertising information.
Gravatar, embeds, security and other WordPress services
WordPress and profile features can use Gravatar for hosted avatars; a hash derived from an email address may be supplied to the Gravatar service to find a profile picture. Gravatar has its own privacy practices: Automattic Privacy Policy.
Articles or profiles may include embedded video, images, interactive coding demos or content hosted elsewhere. When such an embed is loaded, the third-party service may receive your IP address and browser information and may use its own cookies. The website’s anti-spam, hosting, security and caching technologies may also use storage necessary for safe operation, depending on installed services.
We do not label a named security plugin, video provider or marketing pixel as installed unless that particular service is actually enabled. If additional third-party services are deployed, the consent inventory must be updated to include their precise identities.
Giving, refusing and withdrawing consent
Where applicable, a consent-management interface should let you accept, reject or customize non-essential cookies by purpose and change the decision later. In the EEA, UK and Switzerland, Google requires AdSense publishers serving relevant ads to use a Google-certified CMP integrated with the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF). The consent solution should identify participating advertising vendors and available choices.
Consent for analytics and advertising is separate from authentication. Declining optional cookies should not prevent ordinary reading of public articles, although refusing necessary cookies can affect sign-in features.
How to change your choice: Use the site’s displayed privacy/consent message or its privacy-options control if enabled; otherwise manage browser cookies and contact [email protected] if the controls are unavailable. Clearing cookies in your browser can cause a consent prompt to reappear, but browser deletion alone does not necessarily erase provider-held data.
A written policy does not activate a consent banner or technically prevent Google tags from firing. Those controls must be configured separately through the actual CMP and the site’s tag integration.
Browser and Google privacy controls
You can delete or block cookies in your browser’s privacy settings and may configure tracking protections. Your browser may block third-party cookies while permitting first-party cookies. Clearing essential WordPress cookies can log you out or reset site preferences.
For advertising settings, use Google My Ad Center. For Google privacy details see Google’s Privacy Policy. Browser “Do Not Track” headers and other privacy signals are not a substitute for an implemented site-wide consent mechanism; any legal obligation relating to recognized opt-out signals applies independently.
Retention, international processing and rights
WordPress authentication and preference cookies expire in line with feature settings or when you log out or clear browser data. Google cookie durations and advertising identifiers vary by service configuration and regional conditions; vendor storage may be processed outside the EEA subject to applicable legal transfer safeguards. Our Privacy Policy explains data rights, transfer safeguards and how to request access, deletion or correction.
A browser cookie identifier is not necessarily anonymous merely because it does not contain a readable name. Where it relates to an identifiable person, data-protection laws may apply.
Changes, operator and contacts
This Cookie Policy may change as WordPress, plugins, Google tags or legal requirements change. The date above identifies the version currently published.
For questions or a rights request, use our contact page or [email protected]. See the Privacy Policy for the legal operator and further information about personal-data processing.