USA Cookie Policy
This USA Cookie Policy describes how atechsavvy.com uses cookies and similar technologies for U.S. visitors, with emphasis on California’s CCPA as amended by the CPRA and regulations effective into 2026. Read it with our Privacy Policy and Do Not Sell or Share notice.
1. Cookies and “personal information”
Cookies, pixels, and advertising identifiers can qualify as personal information under California law when they are reasonably linkable to a household or consumer. Cross-context behavioral advertising—showing ads based on activity across unaffiliated sites—can constitute “sharing” under the CPRA even when no money changes hands.
2. Notice at collection
When you visit, we may collect identifiers and internet activity information (cookie IDs, IP address, device/browser data, pages viewed) for:
- operating and securing the Site (essential purposes);
- analytics and audience measurement;
- advertising, including Google AdSense and other ad vendors that may personalize or measure ads.
Categories of third parties that may receive data include advertising networks, measurement partners, and infrastructure providers. We do not use Site cookies to build offline mailing lists.
3. Sale or sharing and your opt-out rights
To the extent advertising cookies are considered a “sale” or “sharing,” California residents have the right to opt out. You can:
- click Reject on our cookie banner (equal prominence with Accept);
- use the footer link Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information;
- enable a browser Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal — we treat GPC as a valid opt-out of sale/sharing for that browser and block non-essential advertising cookies accordingly;
- adjust Google ad personalization at adssettings.google.com and industry opt-outs such as NAI.
We do not require you to create an account to opt out. Opt-outs via GPC or Reject are remembered in localStorage for this Site on your device until cleared.
4. Banner and choice design
Although CCPA historically emphasized notice-and-opt-out rather than GDPR-style prior opt-in, we still present Accept and Reject choices before loading non-essential ad tags, and we avoid dark patterns that make opting out harder than accepting. Closing the banner without a choice does not enable advertising cookies.
5. Sensitive personal information
We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information (as defined under CPRA) through cookies for inferring characteristics. Please do not submit sensitive data through forms.
6. Retention and security
Cookie lifetimes vary by vendor. Our consent preference is stored locally until you change it. We apply reasonable technical measures appropriate for a static publishing site; no method of transmission is perfectly secure.
7. Other U.S. state laws
Residents of states with consumer privacy laws (for example Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, and others) may have rights to access, delete, or opt out of targeted advertising. Email contact@atechsavvy.com with your state of residence and request type. We will respond as required by applicable law.
8. Children
We do not knowingly sell or share personal information of consumers under 16. The Site is intended for a general audience.
9. Relationship to EU policy
If you are in the EU/EEA/UK, the EU Cookie Policy and GDPR/ePrivacy prior-consent rules control non-essential cookies. Where both sets of rules could apply, non-essential advertising tags remain off until an affirmative Accept, and GPC/Reject continue to disable sale/sharing-type advertising cookies.
10. Contact
Privacy and cookie questions: contact@atechsavvy.com · Contact.
11. Record-keeping and verification
When you submit a privacy or opt-out request by email, we may ask for limited information sufficient to locate relevant records and prevent fraudulent requests. Opt-outs executed through the on-site Reject control or GPC for a given browser are honored immediately for that client. We do not use dark patterns to nudge you back into personalized advertising, and we will not ask you to opt in again for at least twelve months after a California opt-out unless you intentionally reopen Cookie Settings and Accept.