Cookie Policy

Last Updated: April 2026

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how Technical Masterminds uses them at https://technicalmasterminds.com, and what choices you have regarding their use.

What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to website owners about how their site is being used. Cookies do not contain executable code and cannot carry viruses or install software on your device.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for the following purposes on this website.

Essential Cookies

These cookies are required for the website to function correctly. They include cookies that allow you to navigate the site and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you for marketing purposes.

Analytics Cookies

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our website. Google Analytics collects anonymised information such as the number of visitors, the pages they view and how long they spend on the site. This information helps us improve the website and make our content more useful. The data collected is aggregated and does not identify individual users.

Google Analytics sets the following cookies: _ga (expires after 2 years), _gid (expires after 24 hours) and _gat (expires after 1 minute). These are used to distinguish users and throttle request rates.

Advertising Cookies

We display advertisements on this website through Google AdSense. Google AdSense uses cookies to serve ads that are relevant to your interests based on your browsing history. Google and its advertising partners may use cookies to serve ads on our site and on other websites across the internet.

The following Google AdSense cookies may be set when you visit our site: IDE (used for targeted advertising, expires after 1 year), DSID (used for targeting across devices, session-based) and AID (used to link activity across devices if you are signed in to your Google account).

You can opt out of personalised advertising from Google by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of interest-based advertising from Google and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out page.

WordPress Functional Cookies

As this website is built on WordPress, certain functional cookies may be set to manage your session and preferences. These include comment author cookies if you post comments, and session cookies that are deleted when you close your browser.

Third-Party Cookies

Some pages on this website may include content from third-party services such as YouTube embeds or social sharing buttons. These third parties may set their own cookies when you interact with their content. We have no control over these cookies. Please refer to the respective third-party privacy policies for more information.

Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can control and manage cookies in several ways. Most web browsers allow you to view, manage, delete and block cookies through the browser settings. Please note that deleting or blocking cookies may affect your experience on this and other websites.

To manage cookies in your browser, refer to the help documentation for your specific browser. Links to cookie management guidance for major browsers are listed below.

Google Chrome: Settings then Privacy and Security then Cookies and other site data.
Mozilla Firefox: Options then Privacy and Security then Cookies and Site Data.
Safari: Preferences then Privacy then Manage Website Data.
Microsoft Edge: Settings then Privacy, Search and Services then Cookies.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please revisit this page regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last updated.