What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your browser when you visit a website. They let the site remember things between page loads — for example, that you've already dismissed a notice — and they let analytics and advertising tools recognize a returning device. Similar technologies (local storage, pixels, web beacons) work in roughly the same way and we treat them under the same rules in this policy.
How We Use Cookies
Our use of cookies on administrativeassistant.net falls into three categories. We aim to keep the list short and to explain what each one is for.
1. Strictly necessary
These keep core functionality working. They are not used for tracking and they cannot be switched off without breaking parts of the Site.
- A small amount of local storage used by our search feature to cache the search index for faster lookups.
2. Analytics
We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how readers move through the Site so we can improve it. The cookies set typically include identifiers such as _ga and _ga_<property-id>. They record information in aggregate — page views, events, scroll behavior, and approximate location — but they do not collect names, email addresses, or other identifying details.
You can disable these cookies by:
- Installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
- Using a privacy-focused browser or extension that blocks analytics scripts.
- Clearing existing cookies and adjusting your browser to refuse new ones from analytics domains.
3. Advertising
The Site participates in Google AdSense. Google and its advertising partners may set cookies — including the DoubleClick DART cookie and other identifiers — to:
- Serve and rotate ads on pages where they appear.
- Measure ad impressions, clicks, and conversions.
- Limit how many times you see the same ad ("frequency capping").
- Personalize ads based on your prior visits to this Site and other sites, where personalization is permitted.
You can manage advertising cookies in several ways:
- Google Ad Settings: turn off personalized ads by Google at google.com/settings/ads.
- Industry opt-out (US): aboutads.info/choices and optout.networkadvertising.org.
- Industry opt-out (EU): youronlinechoices.com.
- Browser controls: block third-party cookies in your browser settings, or use a tracking-protection feature where available.
For background on how Google uses information from sites that use its services, see policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Cookies Set by Other Parties
The Site embeds resources from Google Fonts and the Google Tag Manager / gtag infrastructure. Loading these resources may cause Google to receive your IP address and standard request headers, even if no advertising cookies are set on your device. We don't use other social, video, or comment widgets that drop their own cookies on the page.
Managing Cookies in Your Browser
Every modern browser lets you view and delete cookies, block them by default, or block them by site. Look for "Privacy" or "Cookies" in your browser's settings. Direct guides:
Blocking cookies broadly may break functionality on this Site or others. Blocking only third-party cookies usually preserves the things you actually need while disabling much of the cross-site tracking.
Consent Where Required
Where applicable law requires opt-in consent for non-essential cookies — including most countries in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom — we ask for that consent before non-essential cookies are set. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time using your browser's cookie controls or the opt-out tools above.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy as the Site evolves or as the law changes. Material updates are reflected in the "Last reviewed" date at the top.
Contact
Questions about cookies on this Site? Email [email protected]. The full Privacy Policy covers the broader picture of how we handle personal information.