Cookie Policy
This page explains what cookies are, how they may be used on theonlineworks.online, and how you can control them from your own browser.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website asks your browser to store on your device. When you return to the site, or move between its pages, the browser can send that file back, which lets the site recognise the same browser again.
They are widely used across the web for practical reasons, such as keeping a website secure, remembering a preference you have set, or counting visitors. A cookie is not a program and cannot run on your device or access your files.
Cookies come in two broad forms. Session cookies last only while your browser is open and disappear when you close it. Persistent cookies stay for a set period so a choice or measurement can carry across visits. Related technologies, such as local storage, pixels, and tags, work differently but serve similar purposes, and this policy treats them in the same way.
How Cookies May Be Used
This is a single-tool website, and the Freelance Rate Calculator itself does not need a cookie to work. Even so, running a website normally involves some cookies, and the services a site relies on may set their own. Depending on the configuration of this website at any given time, cookies may be used for:
- Website functionality, such as remembering a choice you have made or keeping a page working correctly as you move around the site
- Security, for example protecting forms against automated abuse and helping detect suspicious activity
- Analytics, to understand in aggregate how many people visit and which pages they use
- Performance, such as caching or content delivery that helps pages load faster
- Advertising, where advertising is displayed on the site
Conditional language is used deliberately throughout this page. The exact cookies present depend on the services active on the website, which can change as the site is maintained. We do not list specific cookie names or vendors here, because doing so accurately at all times would not be possible.
The figures you type into the Freelance Rate Calculator are not stored in a cookie. The calculation runs in your browser and the values disappear when you close or reload the page, as described in our Privacy Policy.
Essential Cookies
Essential cookies are those needed for a website to operate properly and securely. They are typically set by the website software or its security layer rather than for any commercial purpose.
Where present on this site, they may support things such as protecting the contact form against automated submissions, maintaining a secure connection, balancing traffic across servers, or remembering a cookie consent choice you have already made so you are not asked repeatedly.
Because these cookies are necessary for basic operation, they usually cannot be switched off through a consent notice. You can still block them in your browser, though parts of the site, particularly the contact form, may then stop working as intended.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help a website owner understand how a site is being used: how many people visit, which pages they open, roughly where in the world they are, and whether they arrived from a search engine or a link elsewhere.
Where an analytics service is in use on this website, cookies or similar technologies may be set for that purpose. The reports produced describe visitors as a group rather than by name, and the aim is to see which explanations are useful and where the calculator could be improved.
Analytics cookies are not required for the calculator to work. If you block them, the tool will still function normally, and you will simply not be counted in the statistics.
Advertising Cookies
This website may display advertising to cover the cost of providing the calculator free of charge. Where advertising is shown, the provider delivering it, and its partners, may set cookies or use similar technologies.
Advertising cookies are generally used to deliver ads, measure whether they were seen or clicked, limit how often the same ad is repeated, and in some cases to show ads based on your previous browsing. That activity is carried out by the advertising provider under its own policies and controls, and we do not have access to any profile it may hold about you.
If no advertising is being displayed on the website, no advertising cookies are set. Where they are set, blocking them does not prevent you from using the calculator.
Third-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are set by the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies are set by another organisation whose service is used on that website, such as a hosting or content delivery provider, a security or spam-filtering service, an analytics provider, an advertising provider, or embedded content such as fonts or media.
Where such services are used here, the cookies they set are governed by their own privacy and cookie policies, not by this one. We cannot control how they operate, how long their cookies last, or what they measure.
If you want to know exactly what is stored while you are on this site, your browser can tell you. Most browsers let you inspect the cookies held for the page you are viewing, which is the most reliable and up-to-date source of that information.
Managing Cookies
You are in control of cookies on your own device, and there are several ways to manage them:
- Consent notice. Where a cookie notice is displayed on this website, you can use it to accept or decline non-essential cookies, and to change your choice later.
- Browser settings. Every major browser can block cookies, block third-party cookies only, delete existing cookies, or clear them automatically when you close the browser. See Section 8.
- Private browsing. A private or incognito window discards cookies when you close it.
- Provider opt-outs. Many analytics and advertising providers offer their own opt-out tools or preference pages.
- Device and browser privacy features. Modern browsers and mobile systems include tracking-prevention settings that limit cross-site cookies automatically.
Blocking cookies will not stop the Freelance Rate Calculator from working. The calculation runs in your browser and does not depend on cookies. Blocking them may, however, affect the contact form, embedded content, or other parts of the site that rely on a third-party service.
Browser Cookie Controls
Cookie settings live in the privacy section of your browser. Menu names change between versions, so treat these as a guide rather than exact instructions, and use your browser’s own help pages if the option is not where you expect.
Google Chrome
Settings, then Privacy and security, then Third-party cookies or Site data. You can block cookies, clear them, or set rules for individual sites.
Safari
On Mac: Safari, then Settings, then Privacy. On iPhone or iPad: Settings, then Apps, then Safari, where you will find privacy and website data options.
Mozilla Firefox
Settings, then Privacy and Security. Choose a protection level, manage cookies and site data, or clear them when Firefox closes.
Microsoft Edge
Settings, then Cookies and site permissions, or Privacy, search and services for tracking prevention options.
On a phone or tablet, the same controls usually sit inside the browser app’s own settings, and your device may offer additional privacy options at the system level. Clearing cookies signs you out of websites and removes saved preferences, so expect to set some things up again afterwards.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
This policy may be updated if the website changes, for example if a service is added or removed, or if the law in a relevant region changes. When it is updated, the revised version appears on this page and the “Last updated” date at the top is changed.
Continuing to use the website after an update means you accept the revised policy. If cookies matter to you, checking this page occasionally, or inspecting cookies directly in your browser, is the most reliable approach.
Contact
If you have a question about this Cookie Policy or about cookies on this website, you can reach us by email:
admin.theonlineworks@gmail.comYou can also use the form on our contact page. For more on how information is handled generally, see our Privacy Policy.