Cookie Policy
Last updated: 23 August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Tool Habour uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit https://toolhabour.com.
This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, Affiliate Disclosure and Advertising Disclosure.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites store on your computer, phone, tablet or other device.
Cookies allow a website or third-party service to recognise a browser, remember certain information and understand how visitors use the website.
Cookies may be:
- Session cookies, which expire when you close your browser
- Persistent cookies, which remain on your device until they expire or you delete them
- First-party cookies, which are set by Tool Habour
- Third-party cookies, which are set by an external service used on the website
2. Similar Technologies
Tool Habour and its service providers may also use technologies that operate similarly to cookies, including:
- Pixels
- Tags
- Local storage
- Software-development tools
- Referral identifiers
- Tracking links
- Embedded scripts
References to “cookies” in this policy include these similar technologies where appropriate.
3. Why We Use Cookies
Tool Habour may use cookies to:
- Operate the website
- Maintain website security
- Remember visitor preferences
- Measure website traffic
- Understand how visitors use our content
- Improve website performance
- Diagnose technical problems
- Measure affiliate-link activity
- Deliver and measure advertisements
- Prevent spam, fraud and abuse
- Support embedded third-party content
- Maintain consent preferences
4. Types of Cookies We May Use
4.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies support essential website functions and security.
They may be used to:
- Protect the website against malicious activity
- Maintain administrative login sessions
- Balance website traffic
- Remember privacy or cookie-consent choices
- Prevent spam and fraud
- Support essential WordPress functionality
Because these cookies are necessary for the website to function, they may not always be subject to optional consent. You may still be able to block them through your browser, but doing so could prevent parts of the website from working properly.
4.2 Preference Cookies
Preference cookies remember choices that affect your experience.
They may remember:
- Display or layout preferences
- Language preferences
- Cookie-consent choices
- Other optional settings
These cookies allow the website to provide a more consistent experience during future visits.
4.3 Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors find and use Tool Habour.
They may collect information such as:
- Pages visited
- Time spent on a page
- General geographic area
- Device and browser type
- Referral source
- Clicks and navigation patterns
- Website errors
- New and returning visitor information
We may use Google Analytics or another analytics provider for these purposes.
Analytics information is generally used in aggregated form to improve our articles, website structure, performance and user experience.
Where required by law, analytics cookies will be used only after you provide consent.
4.4 Affiliate Cookies
Some Tool Habour pages may contain affiliate links.
When you click an affiliate link, the relevant provider or affiliate network may set a cookie or use a referral identifier to determine whether you later complete a qualifying action.
Qualifying actions may include:
- Creating an account
- Starting a trial
- Requesting information
- Purchasing a product
- Paying for a subscription
If an action is correctly attributed to Tool Habour, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
Affiliate cookies are controlled by the relevant affiliate network or product provider. Their duration varies according to the provider’s attribution period.
More information is available in our Affiliate Disclosure.
4.5 Advertising Cookies
Tool Habour may use advertising services such as Google AdSense or another advertising provider.
Advertising cookies may be used to:
- Display advertisements
- Measure advertisement impressions and clicks
- Limit how often an advertisement appears
- Prevent invalid advertising activity
- Measure campaign performance
- Personalise advertisements where permitted
Where legally required, advertising and personalisation cookies will not be activated until you provide appropriate consent.
Rejecting advertising cookies may not remove all advertisements. It may result in less personalised advertising.
4.6 Performance Cookies
Performance cookies may help us understand and improve:
- Page-loading speed
- Website responsiveness
- Caching
- Error reporting
- Server performance
- Content delivery
The information may be aggregated and used to maintain a reliable website experience.
4.7 Security and Anti-Spam Cookies
Security services and website plugins may use cookies or technical identifiers to:
- Detect suspicious traffic
- Prevent spam submissions
- Identify malicious requests
- Protect forms and administrative areas
- Limit automated abuse
- Maintain website integrity
These technologies may process an Internet Protocol address, device information or browser details for security purposes.
4.8 Embedded-Content Cookies
Tool Habour articles may include content embedded from third-party platforms, such as:
- YouTube videos
- Social-media posts
- Images
- Interactive tools
- External demonstrations
Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party website directly.
The provider may place cookies, collect usage information or track your interaction according to its own privacy and cookie policies.
5. Google Services
Tool Habour may use Google services, including Google Analytics, Google Site Kit, Google Search Console and Google AdSense.
Not all Google services necessarily place cookies. The cookies and information used depend on which services are active and how they are configured.
You can learn more about how Google uses information from websites that use its services at:
Information about Google’s cookies is available at:
Google advertising controls are available at:
6. WordPress and Website Plugins
Tool Habour is built using WordPress and may use plugins or website services that set cookies for:
- Security
- Caching
- Analytics
- Search-engine optimisation
- Link management
- Forms
- Spam prevention
- Embedded content
- Administrative functionality
The cookies used may change when website features, plugins or service providers are added, removed or updated.
7. Cookie Duration
The amount of time a cookie remains on your device depends on its purpose and provider.
Cookies may last:
- Only for the current browser session
- For several hours or days
- For several months
- Until a specified expiry date
- Until you manually delete them
Third-party cookie durations are determined by the relevant provider and may change according to its policies.
8. Your Cookie Choices
Where required, Tool Habour may display a cookie-consent banner allowing you to:
- Accept optional cookies
- Reject optional cookies
- Choose cookie categories
- Change your preferences later
Strictly necessary cookies may remain active because they support essential website functionality and security.
Withdrawing consent does not make previous processing unlawful.
9. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most browsers allow you to:
- View stored cookies
- Delete cookies
- Block all cookies
- Block third-party cookies
- Receive a warning before cookies are stored
- Clear website data when the browser closes
Cookie controls are normally available under your browser’s privacy or security settings.
Blocking all cookies may affect website functionality and prevent certain features from working correctly.
10. Third-Party Cookies
Tool Habour does not directly control cookies placed by third-party providers.
Third parties may change their cookie names, purposes, durations and technologies without notifying us.
You should review the privacy and cookie policies of services you use after leaving Tool Habour.
11. Do Not Track
Some browsers provide a “Do Not Track” signal.
Because there is no universally accepted technical standard for responding to these signals, Tool Habour may not respond to every Do Not Track request in the same way.
You can use your browser settings and any consent controls provided on the website to manage tracking preferences.
12. International Visitors
Cookie and consent requirements vary by country.
Where applicable law requires consent before non-essential cookies are used, Tool Habour will seek appropriate consent.
Visitors in the European Economic Area and United Kingdom may have additional rights regarding analytics, advertising and tracking technologies.
South African visitors may exercise rights available under the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013.
13. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when:
- Website technology changes
- New plugins or services are introduced
- Advertising or analytics practices change
- Affiliate networks are added
- Legal requirements change
The revised version will be published on this page with an updated “Last updated” date.
14. Contact Us
If you have questions about cookies or tracking technologies used by Tool Habour, contact us through:
Please use the subject line “Cookie or Privacy Question.”