What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files that a website stores in your browser when you visit. They help the website remember things — such as your preferences or whether you have given consent — and help services like analytics and advertising work. Similar technologies (such as local storage and pixels) work in comparable ways; in this policy we call them all “cookies”.

How PunjabiTime Uses Cookies

• Essential website functions — keeping the site working, remembering your cookie-consent choice and basic settings such as dark mode.
• Security and spam protection — helping protect the website and its forms from abuse.
• Comments and contact forms — supporting comment and contact features where you choose to use them.
• Analytics — understanding, in aggregate, how readers use the website so we can improve it.
• Advertising — supporting ads served on the website, including Google AdSense.
• Translation / language preference — remembering your Original / English reading choice.
• Embedded content — supporting videos and social-media posts embedded in articles.

Types of Cookies

Google AdSense and Advertising Cookies

PunjabiTime.com displays advertising served by Google AdSense. Google and its advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies for ad delivery, measurement and — depending on your consent choices and settings — ad personalisation. In the EU/EEA and UK, consent choices made through our cookie banner apply to these services. You can also manage ad personalisation through Google’s Ads Settings at adssettings.google.com.

Analytics Cookies

We may use analytics services, such as Google Analytics via Google Site Kit, to understand aggregate website usage — for example visitor numbers and popular pages. This information helps us improve the website. Analytics providers may set their own cookies as described in their privacy policies.

GTranslate / Translation Cookies

PunjabiTime offers an Original / English reading option powered by a translation service (Google Translate via GTranslate). When you choose English, a small cookie stores your language preference so the website remembers your choice. The original Punjabi content on our servers is never changed.

Embedded Content

Articles may include embedded content such as YouTube videos or social-media posts. These services may set their own cookies and collect data as if you had visited their website directly, under their own cookie and privacy policies.

Managing Cookies

You can manage your cookie choices in two ways. First, through the cookie consent tool on this website, where available — you can review and change your consent preferences at any time using the cookie settings/revisit option. Second, through your browser settings, where you can block or delete cookies; note that blocking some cookies may affect how parts of the website work.

Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time — for example when services, cookies or legal requirements change. The latest version will always be published on this page.

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