Last Updated: June 2026

1. Consent

By using the website www.westcrises.com (the “Website”) and interacting with our regional news columns, intelligence feeds, and analytical metrics, you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this comprehensive Cookie Policy. The Website uses standard tracking parameters to distinguish you from other users browsing our network. This structural design enables us to provide you with a high-performance experience when you review our geopolitical data feeds and allows us to safely optimize our overall site architecture.

2. Disabling Cookies

If you do not agree to the structural deployment of these active tracking tools, please disable them by following the specific administrative instructions for your mobile or desktop browser settings, or utilize the native preference configurations built into our interface banner. Please note that certain data feeds, monetization layers, and navigation elements may not function optimally if cookies are disabled.

Where partner organizations setting an automated cookie provide a direct opt-out route, we explicitly reference their parameters or list their source details within our automated compliance database below so you can manage your browser choices cleanly.

3. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of data that are downloaded to your local device when you interact with an online platform. These tracking metrics are then sent back to the originating web domain on subsequent visits. Because modern news platforms contain layout elements from multiple web sources, your browser may receive simultaneous cookies from several structural streams.

Cookies are highly valuable because they allow our systems to recognize an active reader’s device. They allow you to navigate between our distinct global news desks efficiently, maintain your language selections, and secure your session data. They are also utilized to measure digital advertising campaigns and align ad delivery with your browsing interests across high-tier networks.

  • Session Cookies: These temporary files are cleared automatically from your device the moment you close your active browser session.
  • Persistent Cookies: These files remain safely stored within your browser profile after it is closed to remember your structural preferences when you return to our columns.

4. What Types of Cookies Do We Use?

Our intelligence network relies on a multi-tiered cookie framework to sustain its operational delivery and monetization infrastructure.

A. Strictly Necessary Cookies

These tracking metrics are foundational to keeping our database online. Without these files, essential requests you initiate (such as page transitions and secure layouts) cannot be processed or rendered.

B. Performance & Analytics Cookies

We implement analytic scripts to monitor user behavior, measure desktop/mobile loading speeds, and verify overall performance across Western traffic regions. This enables us to maintain a premium interface by isolating error flags and tracking which news desks command the highest engagement. The underlying data collected by these frameworks focuses strictly on broad technical metrics.

C. Advertising & Marketing Cookies

These processing tools help our network deliver relevant marketing campaigns and track impressions across our monetization platforms. These scripts measure ad delivery performance, optimize campaign reporting metrics, and ensure visitors are not repeatedly served identical ad formats.

Our core marketing and operational tracking database is dynamically generated below:

Essential

Essential cookies enable basic functions and are necessary for the proper function of the website.

NameDescriptionDuration
wpconsent_preferencesThis cookie is used to store the user's cookie consent preferences.30 days

Statistics

Statistics cookies collect information anonymously. This information helps us understand how visitors use our website.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a powerful tool that tracks and analyzes website traffic for informed marketing decisions.

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NameDescriptionDuration
_gac_Contains information related to marketing campaigns of the user. These are shared with Google AdWords / Google Ads when the Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts are linked together.90 days
__utmaID used to identify users and sessions2 years after last activity
__utmtUsed to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests10 minutes
__utmbUsed to distinguish new sessions and visits. This cookie is set when the GA.js javascript library is loaded and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to the Google Analytics server.30 minutes after last activity
__utmcUsed only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics and not with GA.js. Was used to distinguish between new sessions and visits at the end of a session.End of session (browser)
__utmzContains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed user to the website. The cookie is set when the GA.js javascript is loaded and updated when data is sent to the Google Anaytics server6 months after last activity
__utmvContains custom information set by the web developer via the _setCustomVar method in Google Analytics. This cookie is updated every time new data is sent to the Google Analytics server.2 years after last activity
__utmxUsed to determine whether a user is included in an A / B or Multivariate test.18 months
_gaID used to identify users2 years
_galiUsed by Google Analytics to determine which links on a page are being clicked30 seconds
_ga_ID used to identify users2 years
_gidID used to identify users for 24 hours after last activity24 hours
_gatUsed to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager1 minute

Marketing

Marketing cookies are used to follow visitors to websites. The intention is to show ads that are relevant and engaging to the individual user.

Monetag

This cookie is used to deliver contextually relevant advertisements, track impressions, and optimize revenue performance for regional visitors.

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NameDescriptionDuration
ad_sessionThis cookie is used to deliver contextually relevant advertisements, track impressions, and optimize revenue performance for regional visitors.1 year

5. Use of IP Addresses and Web Logs

Our server infrastructure automatically reads your active IP address and browser type to help diagnose technical delivery problems, secure our network from malicious bot tracking, and analyze target demographics. Your network code helps our systems determine the specific geographic domain you are originating from to ensure your regional intelligence feed is perfectly accurate.

6. Third-Party Websites and Sharing Networks

Please note that this comprehensive Cookie Policy does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, the privacy or tracking practices of external third-party portals linked across our analytical reports. These separate corporate links operate independent privacy definitions.

7. Pixel Tracking and Advertising Scripts

To secure operational revenue and measure ad performance, our network integrates clean tracking pixels and dynamic background processing scripts (including high-performance ad formats like Vignettes and Onclick parameters). A pixel is a minute line of deployment code that records basic, non-personally identifiable interactions on a specific page layout to help our advertising partners verify impression metrics.

8. Changes to this Cookie Policy

We modify and update this legal framework periodically to align with evolving international security and compliance rules. We encourage our readers to review this dashboard regularly to stay informed regarding how our digital infrastructure manages tracking parameters.

9. Questions or Comments

If you have general inquiries or professional notes regarding our network compliance policies, you can address your technical communication directly to our operations team via email at contact@westcrises.com.