This policy explains how PSX Expert and Google, our advertising partner, use cookies and similar technologies on this website. The core site is free and supported by advertising. Read it with our Privacy Policy, which also says who the data controller is.
1. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files a website stores on your device so it can recognise it on a later visit. Similar technologies work the same way: local storage (data your browser keeps for one site), web beacons (tiny images or scripts that record that a page or ad was viewed) and device identifiers. "Cookies" below covers all of them. First-party cookies are set by this site; third-party cookies by someone else — here, Google.
2. The cookies on this site
| Purpose | Set by | Names | What it does | How long | Needs consent? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | PSX Expert (first party) | psx-expert-session, XSRF-TOKEN; remember_web_… only if you tick "Keep me signed in" | Keep you signed in and protect forms against cross-site request forgery. | 120 minutes after your last request (the "keep me signed in" cookie: up to 400 days, or until you sign out) | No — the site cannot work without them |
| Preferences | PSX Expert (your browser's local storage) | theme, sidebar | Remember light/dark theme and whether the workspace sidebar is collapsed. Never sent to us. | Until you clear site data | No — a choice you made |
| Consent record | Google (consent message) | FCCDCF, FCNEC | Store the choice you made in Google's consent message. Set only for visitors who are shown that message (EEA, UK, Switzerland). | Up to 13 months | No — it records your consent |
| Advertising | Google AdSense | __gads, __gpi, __eoi; IDE and related cookies on doubleclick.net | Serve and measure ads, limit how often you see one, prevent ad fraud and — where you allow it — personalise ads. | Up to 13 months | Yes, in the EEA, UK and Switzerland |
We do not use Google Analytics or any other third-party analytics cookie. Our traffic statistics come from our own server's record of page requests, described in the Privacy Policy, which sets no cookie of its own. Exact Google cookie names and lifetimes change from time to time; Google lists them in how Google uses cookies. Ads are never shown on the signed-in workspace or to readers on an ad-free plan.
3. Google advertising cookies
We show ads through Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
You can opt out of personalised advertising at Google Ads Settings, and out of other vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info/choices (and, in the EU/EEA, www.youronlinechoices.eu). See also how Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps.
4. Manage your choices
In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Google shows a consent message — a consent management platform certified under the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework — on your first visit. You can consent, decline, or choose purpose by purpose and vendor by vendor. Personalised ads are used only with your consent; if you decline, Google may still show non-personalised or limited ads that do not use your personal data for personalisation. Your choice is kept in the consent cookie listed above.
You can change or withdraw that choice at any time with the "Privacy & cookie settings" link in the footer of every page, or here:
Google's consent message is not available in this browser — usually because you are outside the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, or because an ad blocker stops it loading. Use the opt-outs in section 3 and your browser settings below.
Everywhere else we do not show a cookie banner. You can still opt out of personalised ads through the links in section 3, and block or delete cookies in your browser: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will stop sign-in and forms from working.
5. Do Not Track
There is no agreed standard for responding to a browser's "Do Not Track" signal, so the site does not change its behaviour when it receives one. The choices in section 4 work regardless.
6. Changes to this policy
When the cookies we use change, we update this page and the date at the top. The version shown here is the one that applies.
7. Contact
Questions about cookies: support@psxexpert.com or the contact page. How we handle personal data generally is in the Privacy Policy.