Cookie Policy
Last reviewed on 2026-04-24.
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies and similar technologies FartSound.net uses, why, and how you can control them. Read it alongside our Privacy Policy.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored in your browser when you visit a website. "First-party" cookies are set by the site you're visiting; "third-party" cookies are set by a different domain (for example, an advertising network). Similar technologies — such as local storage, pixel tags and device identifiers — can be used for the same purposes.
How We Use Cookies
FartSound.net uses cookies for two main purposes: analytics and advertising. We do not use cookies to track you across unrelated websites ourselves, though our advertising partners may.
Cookie Categories
1. Strictly Necessary
These are required for the site to function — for example, cookies that remember whether you've dismissed a consent banner, or security-related cookies set by our hosting provider. They don't require consent under most privacy laws.
2. Analytics
We use Google Analytics (GA4) to measure aggregate traffic. Analytics cookies may store a pseudonymous identifier and information such as page path, referrer, approximate location, device type and session duration. This helps us understand which pages people actually read.
3. Advertising
We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. AdSense and
its third-party vendors may set or read cookies to serve, personalise,
measure and improve ads. Cookies commonly set in this category include those
associated with Google's ad systems (for example, cookies on
doubleclick.net and related domains).
Google AdSense Disclosure
FartSound.net uses Google AdSense, and Google — as a third-party vendor — uses cookies to serve ads. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visits to this site and other sites on the internet. You can review Google's advertising policies at policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
How to Manage and Opt Out
You have several options for managing cookies and personalised ads:
- Google Ad Settings: turn personalised ads on or off and review the ad categories associated with your Google account at google.com/settings/ads.
- YourOnlineChoices (EU/UK): manage preferences for many advertising networks at youronlinechoices.eu.
- Digital Advertising Alliance (US): opt out of personalised ads from participating US networks at aboutads.info/choices.
- Google Analytics opt-out: install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on from tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- Your browser settings: all major browsers let you block third-party cookies, delete existing cookies and launch a private window that starts with a clean cookie jar. Consult your browser's help pages for details.
- Mobile devices: iOS and Android both offer controls to reset or limit advertising identifiers in their settings apps.
Blocking cookies may affect how some parts of the site work, but the core content — sounds, timer and articles — should remain usable.
Do Not Track
Different browsers send "Do Not Track" signals in inconsistent ways and there is no universally accepted standard for responding to them. We currently do not respond to "Do Not Track" signals, but we do honour the standard opt-out tools listed above.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies we use or in applicable law. The "last reviewed" date at the top of the page is updated whenever we make changes.
Contact
For questions about this Cookie Policy, email [email protected].