Cookie Policy for pocalc.com
Effective Date: August 26, 2026
At pocalc.com ("we," "us," or "our"), we believe in being clear and open about how we collect and use data related to you. This Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies, web beacons, pixels, and other similar tracking technologies are used when you visit pocalc.com and use our online calculators and tools.
This policy operates alongside our Privacy Policy and specifically addresses our compliance with international privacy laws (such as GDPR and CCPA) and Google’s AdSense program requirements.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, remember your preferences, and provide analytical or advertising information to the owners of the site.
2. How We Use Cookies
Because pocalc.com provides interactive tools and calculators, we use cookies for a variety of reasons, ranging from basic site functionality to displaying relevant advertisements that keep our tools free to use.
The cookies we use fall into the following categories:
- Essential & Functional Cookies: These are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. For example, these cookies may remember your specific input data or preferences while you are actively using a calculator, ensuring the tool works seamlessly without resetting during your session.
- Analytical & Performance Cookies: We use these to track information about how pocalc.com is accessed, used, or is performing. This helps us maintain, operate, and continually improve our calculators and user experience.
- Targeting & Advertising Cookies (Google AdSense): Our website uses advertising to fund the development and maintenance of our free tools. We use third-party advertising companies, primarily Google AdSense, to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies use cookies to collect information about your visits to pocalc.com and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
3. Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising
To keep pocalc.com free, we display advertisements provided by Google AdSense and their third-party advertising partners. As a requirement of using these services, we disclose the following:
- Third-Party Vendors: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to pocalc.com or other websites.
- Advertising Cookies: Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to pocalc.com and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Web Beacons: Third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your browser, or using web beacons to collect information as a result of ad serving on pocalc.com.
4. How to Manage and Opt-Out of Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Banner that appears when you first visit our site.
Additionally, you can manage or opt out of cookies through the following methods:
Opting out of Google Personalized Ads: You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
Browser Controls: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website, though your access to some functionality and areas of our calculators may be restricted or degraded. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information:
5. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.
6. Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Cookie Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
Email: contact@pocalc.com Website: pocalc.com