The Kyiv Independent (“us”, “we”, or “our”) uses cookies on www.kyivindependent.com and affiliated websites (collectively the “Site”).

Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third parties we partner with may use cookies on the Site, and your choices regarding cookies. Please read this Cookies Policy in conjunction with our Privacy Policy, which sets out additional details on how we use personally identifiable information and your various rights.

WHAT ARE COOKIES

Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Site or a third party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Site more useful to you. Essentially, cookies are a user’s identification card for our servers. Cookies and web beacons allow us to serve you better and more efficiently. Other tracking technologies are also used such as pixels and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service.

Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies.

HOW DO WE USE COOKIES?

When you use and access the Site, we may place a number of cookies in your web browser.

We use cookies in various ways to enhance your experience on our sites, including:

• Keeping you logged in.
• Understanding your site usage, such as how long you stay on a page or which articles you read.
• Providing tailored content to you.
• Displaying relevant journalism.
• Showing you our products and services that match your interests.
• Sending you marketing and service messages while you're on our site.
• Collaborating with partners to show you relevant advertisements.
• Prompting you to complete online processes (e.g., registration).
• Handling payments and refunds.
• Monitoring user interactions with our site pages to detect and address interface issues.

THIRD-PARTY COOKIES

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Site and refine marketing efforts.

• Tracking cookies. Follow on-site behavior and tie it to other metrics, allowing a better understanding of usage habits.
• Optimization cookies. Allow real-time tracking of user conversion from different marketing channels to evaluate their effectiveness.
• Partner cookies. Provide marketing conversion metrics to our partners so they can optimize their paid marketing efforts.

WHAT ARE YOUR CHOICES REGARDING COOKIES

If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.

Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use some or all of the features we offer.