Last updated 18 September 2026
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies and similar technologies are used on ventureora.com, what each kind does, and how you can control them. It sits alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle personal information more generally.
What cookies are
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store. It lets a site remember things between page loads and between visits, such as whether you have dismissed a notice or which options you selected in a tool. Similar technologies, including local storage, pixels and software development kits, do comparable jobs, and everything in this policy applies to them too.
Cookies set by ventureora.com are called first-party cookies. Cookies set by another company whose service appears on our pages, such as an advertising network, are third-party cookies. We do not control third-party cookies, and the company that sets them is responsible for them under its own privacy policy.
The categories of cookies we use
1. Strictly necessary
These make the Site work and cannot be switched off in our systems. They include the cookies WordPress sets to keep a session secure, to remember a comment author’s details, and to record your cookie preferences so we do not ask you again on every page. They do not track you across other websites.
2. Preferences
These remember choices you have made so the Site behaves the way you expect. On Ventureora that mainly means remembering answers you have given to one of our gear finders within a visit, so you are not asked the same question twice.
3. Analytics and performance
These help us understand how the Site is used in aggregate: which guides people read, which comparison tools they finish, where pages load slowly, and which links break. We use this to decide what to write next and what to fix. The reporting we look at is aggregated and is not used to identify you personally.
4. Advertising
We work with third-party advertising partners, including Google, to show advertising on the Site. Those partners may set cookies to measure how ads perform, to limit how often you see the same ad, and, where you have not opted out, to show you advertising based on your prior visits to this and other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this Site and other sites on the internet. You can opt out of personalised advertising in your Google Ads Settings at adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info/choices or optout.networkadvertising.org, and in Europe at youronlinechoices.eu.
Opting out of personalised advertising does not remove advertising from the Site. You will still see ads, but they will be less relevant to you.
Affiliate tracking
When you click a link to a retailer, that retailer or its affiliate network may set a cookie so that any resulting purchase is credited to Ventureora. This is how the Site is funded, and it costs you nothing. Those cookies are set on the retailer’s domain, under the retailer’s privacy policy, and typically expire within 24 hours to 30 days depending on the programme. Our Affiliate Disclosure explains the arrangement in full.
Your consent
Where the law requires it, including in the EU, the UK and other regions with equivalent rules, we ask for your consent before setting analytics or advertising cookies. Strictly necessary cookies are set without consent because the Site cannot work without them.
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time using the button below, and your choice is remembered until you clear your browser storage. Withdrawing consent does not affect anything that happened while consent was in place.
Controlling cookies in your browser
Every major browser lets you see the cookies a site has set, delete them, block them by category, and browse in a private window that discards them when you close it. The controls are usually under Settings, then Privacy and security. Blocking all cookies will break parts of most websites, including some features on this one.
- Chrome: Settings, Privacy and security, Third-party cookies
- Safari: Settings, Privacy
- Firefox: Settings, Privacy and Security
- Edge: Settings, Cookies and site permissions
Do Not Track
There is still no agreed industry standard for how a website should respond to a browser Do Not Track signal, so we do not currently change our behaviour when one is present. We do honour recognised opt-out signals where the law requires it, including the Global Privacy Control where applicable.
Changes to this policy
We will update this page when the technologies we use change, and the date at the top always shows the current version. Substantial changes to advertising or analytics will be reflected here before they take effect wherever we can manage it.
Questions
If anything here is unclear, or you want to know exactly what is set on your device, email us at ventureora@gmail.com or use our contact page.