Cookie Policy & Consent

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you load a website. They help our platform remember your preferences, secure session data, and analyze traffic performance to ensure a smoother user experience across our business directory and digital solutions.

We classify cookies into structured groups to ensure compliance and give you control over your digital footprint:

• Essential Cookies: Required for core website navigation, security authentication, and session management.
• Performance & Analytics Cookies: Collect anonymous data on how visitors interact with our business listings and guides to help improve layout speed and readability.
• Functional Cookies: Remember your customized interface preferences and regional settings.
• Advertising & Third-Party Cookies: Used to deliver relevant advertisements through networks like Google AdSense, track ad campaign efficiency, and measure user engagement.

To ensure full regulatory compliance (such as GDPR and CCPA) and give you direct control over your browsing privacy, we utilize the CookieYes consent banner plugin on thesportsangel.com.

• Consent Banner Control: Upon your first visit, our CookieYes banner prompts you to accept or manage your cookie permissions granularly by category.
• Preferences Storage: CookieYes sets a lightweight preference cookie to remember your explicit consent choices, ensuring you are not repeatedly bothered on subsequent visits.
• Withdrawing Consent: You can modify your preferences or withdraw your consent at any time by clicking on the floating cookie settings icon or consent widget available on our pages.

As part of our monetization strategy, we utilize Google AdSense to serve ads. Google and its third-party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to thesportsangel.com or other websites across the internet.

• Advertising Cookies: Google uses advertising cookies to enable ads to be served to our users based on their visits to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
• Opting Out: You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of third-party vendor cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

Aside from using our CookieYes preference center, you can also manage or delete cookies directly through your web browser configurations. Note that disabling essential cookies may impact certain interactive functionalities of our platform.

• Browser Controls: Adjust privacy settings in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge to block or clear cookies automatically.
• Opt-Out Tools: Utilize standard industry opt-out mechanisms to restrict analytics tracking across websites.