Cookie Policy

Effective and last updated: July 31, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Ali Hassan, operating under the business and brand name SEO Findings (“SEO Findings,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit seofindings.com (the “Website”).

This Policy should be read together with the SEO Findings Privacy Policy, which explains more generally how personal information is collected, used, shared, retained, and protected.

By using the Website, you may be offered choices regarding non-essential cookies through the Website’s cookie consent banner or Cookie Settings interface.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites place or store on a visitor’s browser, computer, mobile device, or other internet-enabled device.

Cookies can help a website:

• Operate correctly;
• Remember visitor choices and preferences;
• Maintain security;
• Understand how visitors use the Website;
• Measure Website performance;
• Provide analytics and behavioral insights;
• Display or measure advertisements;
• Attribute affiliate referrals; and
• Remember cookie consent choices.

Cookies do not usually directly identify a person by name, but information stored in or associated with cookies may relate to a browser, device, session, or pseudonymous identifier.

2. Similar Technologies

The Website may also use technologies that perform functions similar to cookies, including:

• Pixels;
• Web beacons;
• Tags;
• Scripts;
• Local storage;
• Session storage;
• Software development tools;
• Device or browser identifiers; and
• Other tracking or measurement technologies.

References to “cookies” in this Policy generally include these similar technologies where appropriate.

3. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

Cookies may be classified according to the party that places them.

First-party cookies

First-party cookies are associated with the Website domain you are visiting. They may be set directly by SEO Findings or through tools implemented on the Website.

These cookies may support Website operation, security, analytics, preferences, consent management, or other disclosed purposes.

Third-party cookies

Third-party cookies are associated with a domain other than the Website domain.

They may be placed or accessed by independent providers that supply services such as analytics, behavioral measurement, embedded content, advertising, fraud prevention, or affiliate tracking.

Third-party providers process information according to their own terms and privacy notices.

4. Session and Persistent Cookies

Cookies may also be classified according to how long they remain on a device.

Session cookies

Session cookies generally remain available only while a browser session is active and are normally deleted when the browser is closed.

Persistent cookies

Persistent cookies remain on a device for a defined period or until they are manually deleted.

The duration of a persistent cookie depends on its purpose, provider settings, consent status, and the visitor’s browser configuration.

5. Cookie Categories Used by the Website

The Website may use the following categories of cookies and similar technologies.

The exact cookies available at a particular time may depend on the Website’s current features, installed tools, visitor location, consent choices, browser settings, and whether advertising or other optional services have been enabled.

5.1 Necessary Cookies

Necessary cookies support functions required for the Website to operate safely and correctly.

They may be used for:

• Website security;
• Fraud and abuse prevention;
• Network management;
• Consent management;
• Remembering cookie preferences;
• Load balancing;
• Form operation;
• WordPress administration;
• Comment functionality;
• Session management; and
• Other essential technical purposes.

These cookies cannot always be disabled through the Website’s cookie banner because the Website may not function properly without them.

Visitors may still be able to block necessary cookies through their browser settings, but doing so may cause parts of the Website to stop working correctly.

5.2 Functional Cookies

Functional cookies allow the Website to remember optional choices and provide enhanced features.

They may remember information such as:

• Language preferences;
• Display settings;
• Previously selected Website options;
• Form-related preferences;
• Embedded-content choices; or
• Other Website personalization settings.

If functional cookies are rejected, some optional features may not operate as expected.

5.3 Analytics and Performance Cookies

Analytics and performance cookies help us understand how visitors find and use the Website.

They may collect or generate information such as:

• Pages visited;
• Approximate visit time;
• Traffic source;
• Referring page;
• Browser type;
• Device type;
• Operating system;
• Approximate location derived from an IP address;
• Navigation path;
• Session activity;
• Page performance;
• Clicks and scrolling;
• Errors; and
• Pseudonymous user or session identifiers.

This information helps us evaluate traffic, identify technical problems, improve content, and understand Website performance.

Where applicable law requires consent, analytics and performance cookies are used only after the required consent has been received.

5.4 Advertisement Cookies

Advertisement cookies may be used if display advertising, Google AdSense, or another advertising service is enabled on the Website.

These cookies and related technologies may be used to:

• Serve advertisements;
• Limit how often an advertisement is shown;
• Measure advertisement performance;
• Detect invalid or fraudulent activity;
• Understand whether an advertisement was viewed or selected;
• Select advertisements based on general context;
• Personalize advertisements where legally permitted and consented to; and
• Associate advertising activity across websites, devices, or services where permitted.

Third-party advertising vendors, including Google where Google advertising services are enabled, may place or read cookies on a visitor’s browser or use web beacons, IP addresses, and similar technologies.

Advertising cookies may be first-party or third-party cookies.

Where required, advertising and personalized-advertising technologies will not be enabled until the relevant visitor has provided the necessary consent.

5.5 Affiliate Cookies

The Website may use affiliate links in the future.

When a visitor selects an affiliate link, the relevant provider may use a cookie, referral identifier, or similar technology to determine whether a visit, registration, enquiry, or purchase should be attributed to SEO Findings.

These technologies may allow SEO Findings to receive a commission without normally increasing the price paid by the visitor.

Affiliate providers determine their own cookie names, durations, purposes, and data practices.

5.6 Other or Unclassified Cookies

The Website may occasionally detect a cookie that has not yet been assigned to a final category.

An unclassified status does not necessarily mean that a cookie is unsafe. It may mean that its purpose or provider is still being reviewed.

Where reasonably possible, unidentified cookies will be reviewed and categorized through the Website’s consent-management and cookie-scanning process.

6. CookieYes Consent Management

SEO Findings uses CookieYes as its cookie consent-management solution.

CookieYes may use necessary technologies to:

• Display the cookie consent banner;
• Record consent choices;
• Remember whether cookies were accepted or rejected;
• Maintain cookie category preferences;
• Allow visitors to change or withdraw consent;
• Maintain consent records;
• Scan or identify cookies used on the Website; and
• Support compliance with applicable cookie and privacy requirements.

The CookieYes consent cookie or related consent record is necessary to remember a visitor’s choices and avoid repeatedly displaying the same consent request.

CookieYes may periodically scan the Website and update the cookie information shown through the consent banner or cookie audit interface.

Because the Website’s tools and third-party services may change, the current Cookie Settings interface should be consulted for the most recent available details about detected cookies, including their provider, category, purpose, and duration.

7. Google Analytics

The Website uses Google Analytics to understand Website traffic, usage patterns, devices, browsers, approximate visitor locations, referral sources, and interactions with Website content.

Google Analytics may use first-party cookies and pseudonymous identifiers to distinguish visitors and sessions and produce aggregated reports.

Depending on the Website configuration and consent choices, Google Analytics may process information such as:

• IP address;
• Device and browser information;
• Approximate geographical information;
• Visited pages;
• Referring websites;
• Session and engagement information;
• Interaction events; and
• Pseudonymous client or session identifiers.

Where consent is legally required, analytics storage and related cookies are controlled according to the visitor’s consent choice.

Google may process information through infrastructure located in different countries and according to its own privacy terms.

Visitors may review Google’s privacy information and available Google Analytics opt-out tools for additional choices.

8. Microsoft Clarity

The Website uses Microsoft Clarity to understand how visitors interact with Website pages.

Clarity may provide:

• Heatmaps;
• Session recordings;
• Click information;
• Scroll information;
• Navigation patterns;
• Behavioral measurements;
• Device and browser details;
• Performance information; and
• Pseudonymous visitor or session identifiers.

Clarity cookies may use a pseudonymous identifier to associate interactions and page views during or across Website sessions.

Session recordings are intended to show Website interaction rather than collect sensitive form information. Masking, suppression, or similar privacy controls may be used where supported.

Visitors should not submit passwords, complete payment-card details, government identification numbers, medical information, or other highly sensitive information through ordinary Website forms or comments.

Where consent is required, Clarity cookies and full behavioral-measurement functionality are enabled only after a valid consent signal has been received.

Microsoft processes information according to its own privacy terms.

9. Google Tag Manager

The Website uses Google Tag Manager to deploy and manage Website tags.

Google Tag Manager is a tag-management system. The tags, services, or scripts configured through it may set cookies or process information according to their own purposes.

For example, Google Tag Manager may be used to control the deployment of analytics, consent-related, performance, or advertising tags.

The fact that a tag is deployed through Google Tag Manager does not change the category or purpose of the service operated through that tag.

Where required, non-essential tags are configured to respect applicable consent choices.

10. WordPress and Website Operation

The Website is operated using WordPress and may use cookies required for technical or administrative functions.

Depending on how a visitor uses the Website, WordPress or installed plugins may use cookies for:

• Comment functionality;
• Remembering comment-related details;
• Form security;
• Spam prevention;
• Login or administration sessions;
• Website preferences;
• Security controls; or
• Other operational purposes.

Administrative login cookies generally apply to authorized Website administrators rather than ordinary visitors.

The specific cookies may change when WordPress, a theme, or a plugin is updated, added, removed, or reconfigured.

11. Forms and Comments

Submitting a contact form or comment may involve necessary security, spam-prevention, session, or preference technologies.

Where comment-related cookies are enabled, a visitor may be offered the option to save their name, email address, or website details in the browser for convenience when submitting another comment.

These convenience cookies are optional where technically supported.

Information submitted through forms and comments is also handled according to the SEO Findings Privacy Policy.

12. Embedded Content and External Services

Website pages may contain or link to content provided by independent third parties, including:

• Videos;
• Images;
• Social-media features;
• Maps;
• Forms;
• Advertising;
• Software demonstrations;
• Widgets; or
• Other embedded services.

Embedded content may behave as though the visitor accessed the third-party website directly.

The third-party provider may use cookies or similar technologies to collect technical, usage, account, or interaction information.

Where required and technically supported, non-essential embedded content may remain restricted until the relevant visitor provides consent.

SEO Findings does not control the cookie practices of independent external websites. Visitors should review the relevant provider’s privacy and cookie information.

13. Search-Engine Webmaster Tools

SEO Findings may use search-engine webmaster tools for Website ownership verification, sitemap submission, indexing, security notices, and search-performance reporting.

Administrative use of services such as Google Search Console or Bing Webmaster Tools is different from general visitor analytics.

A verification record or administrative connection does not necessarily mean that a tracking cookie is placed on every Website visitor’s device.

14. Consent and Legal Basis

Where applicable law requires consent, SEO Findings requests consent before using non-essential cookies for purposes such as:

• Analytics;
• Session replay;
• Behavioral measurement;
• Personalization;
• Advertising;
• Advertising measurement; or
• Other optional tracking.

Necessary cookies may be used without optional consent where they are required to provide the Website, maintain security, remember consent choices, or perform another legally permitted essential function.

A visitor may withdraw consent at any time through the available Cookie Settings.

Withdrawal does not make earlier processing unlawful where valid consent existed at the time.

15. Managing Cookie Preferences

Visitors may manage cookie choices through the cookie consent banner or the Cookie Settings control available on the Website.

Depending on the available options, visitors may:

• Accept all optional cookies;
• Reject all non-essential cookies;
• Select particular cookie categories;
• Change an earlier selection; or
• Withdraw consent.

Necessary cookies may remain active because they support essential Website functions and consent management.

Rejecting optional cookies will not normally prevent basic access to Website articles, although analytics, embedded content, personalization, advertisements, or other optional features may be reduced or unavailable.

16. Browser Controls

Most browsers allow users to view, block, restrict, or delete cookies through browser settings.

Browser controls may allow a visitor to:

• Delete existing cookies;
• Block all cookies;
• Block third-party cookies;
• Clear Website data;
• Limit tracking;
• Send privacy preference signals; or
• Receive a notification before a cookie is stored.

Blocking all cookies may affect Website operation and may prevent consent choices, forms, comments, embedded content, or other features from working properly.

Browser settings apply independently from the Website’s Cookie Settings. Deleting the CookieYes consent cookie may cause the consent banner to appear again.

17. Advertising Choices

If Google AdSense or another advertising service is enabled, visitors may have additional choices through:

• Website Cookie Settings;
• Google advertising settings;
• Browser privacy controls;
• Advertising-industry opt-out tools; and
• Legally recognized opt-out preference mechanisms.

Rejecting personalized advertising does not necessarily mean that no advertisements will be displayed. Non-personalized or contextual advertisements may still appear where permitted.

18. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track

Some browsers or extensions may send privacy preference signals.

Because the traditional “Do Not Track” signal does not have a universally accepted technical or legal interpretation, the Website may not respond to it in every situation.

Where an applicable law requires recognition of a legally valid opt-out preference signal, such as Global Privacy Control, SEO Findings will make reasonable efforts to treat the recognized signal as the applicable opt-out request.

Visitors may also use the Website’s Cookie Settings for direct control over available cookie categories.

19. Cookie Retention

Cookie retention periods vary according to the cookie’s purpose and provider.

Some cookies expire when the browser session ends. Others may remain for days, months, or another defined period unless deleted earlier.

Consent records may be retained for a reasonable period to:

• Remember visitor choices;
• Demonstrate that consent was requested;
• Respect withdrawals or rejections;
• Maintain Website compliance records; and
• Avoid repeatedly requesting the same preference.

Current retention details for identified cookies may be shown through the Website’s Cookie Settings or cookie audit interface.

Third-party providers may apply their own retention schedules.

20. International Processing

Cookie and tracking information may be processed in Pakistan and in other countries where the Website’s technology providers or their infrastructure are located.

Privacy and data-protection laws in those countries may differ from the laws in a visitor’s location.

Where applicable law requires international-transfer safeguards, processing may rely on provider commitments, contractual protections, adequacy decisions, or another recognized transfer mechanism.

Additional information is provided in the SEO Findings Privacy Policy and the relevant provider’s privacy notice.

21. Cookie List and Changes in Technology

The Website’s cookie list may change when:

• A plugin, theme, or Website feature is updated;
• A provider changes its technology;
• A new analytics or advertising service is enabled;
• An existing service is removed;
• A cookie name or duration changes;
• Embedded content is added;
• A visitor uses a different Website feature; or
• A cookie scan identifies additional technologies.

For this reason, the Cookie Settings interface and its cookie audit information should be treated as the most current operational list of cookies detected or declared on the Website.

The presence of a cookie in a scan does not necessarily mean it is used for every visitor. Use may depend on consent, location, browser settings, account status, and Website interactions.

22. Changes to This Cookie Policy

SEO Findings may update this Cookie Policy if:

• Cookie practices change;
• New technologies or providers are introduced;
• Existing services are removed;
• Consent-management settings change;
• Advertising or affiliate features are enabled;
• Legal requirements change; or
• Further clarification becomes necessary.

The latest version will be published on this page with a revised effective and last-updated date.

Minor cookie-name, duration, or provider changes may be reflected in the Cookie Settings or cookie audit interface without requiring the complete Policy to be rewritten, provided the processing purposes and material practices have not changed.

23. Contact Us

For questions about this Cookie Policy or the Website’s use of cookies, contact:

Ali Hassan
SEO Findings
Website: seofindings.com
Email: ali@seofindings.com