COOKIE POLICY

The Laptop Socut COOKIE POLICY

Effective Date: 26 December 2025

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

At The Laptop Scout, we use cookies to ensure you have the best experience while searching for your next laptop.

HOW WE USE COOKIES

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site.

A. Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, the website cannot function properly.

  • Security: We use cookies to identify and prevent security risks (e.g., protecting against CSRF attacks).
  • System Integrity: These allow our server to remember your progress through the site during a single session.

B. Performance and Analytics Cookies

As mentioned in our Data Protection Disclosure, we use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to understand how visitors interact with our content.

  • Data Collected: Which pages are visited, how long is spent on a review, and which country the visitor is from.
  • Anonymity: These cookies do not collect PII. We have enabled IP Anonymisation so your identity remains hidden.

C. Affiliate and Marketing Cookies

This is the most important category for our business model. When you click on a link to a retailer (like Amazon or Best Buy):

  • Tracking: A cookie is placed on your browser to identify you as a visitor from The Laptop Scout.
  • Duration: These typically last between 24 hours and 90 days.
  • Function: If you make a purchase within that window, the retailer knows to provide us with a commission. These cookies do not give us access to your personal account or payment details.

THIRD-PARTY COOKIES

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties.

  1. Google Analytics: One of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web.
  2. Affiliate Networks: Including but not limited to Amazon Associates, Impact, and ShareASale.

MANAGING YOUR COOKIES

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser “Help” for how to do this).

  • Please Note: Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies if you want the full experience of our laptop comparison tools.
  • Specific Opt-Out: You can specifically opt-out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

THE “DO NOT TRACK” SIGNAL

Some browsers have a “Do Not Track” (DNT) feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. At this time, our website is configured to respond to and honor DNT signals by suppressing non-essential tracking scripts.

MORE INFORMATION

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