Last Updated: May 19, 2025

What are Cookies?

Like many other commercial sites, our websites (“Site”) utilize standard technologies called “cookies” and clear GIFs to collect information about how our Site is used. A cookie is a small data text file, which a website stores on your computer’s hard drive (if your web browser permits) that can later be retrieved to identify you. Cookies were designed to help a website recognize a user’s browser as a previous visitor and thus save and remember any preferences that may have been set while the user was browsing the website. A cookie cannot be read by a website other than the one that set the cookie. Cookies can securely store login session tokens, personalize home pages, identify which parts of a site have been visited or keep track of selections, such as those selected in a “shopping cart.” For instance, cookies allow us to prepopulate (or fill in) an email field with your email address if you revisit our Site and place an order. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive or pass on a computer virus. Cookies only store information that a website explicitly writes to them.

We send a cookie to your hard drive to record various interactions and information about your use of our Site. We also may use cookies to track your session info and collect information about where you are in the learning process. When you click through to any website from a promotional email, our third-party advertising service partner may send a cookie to your hard drive recording your IP address and other related information.

There are a few different categories of cookies, including:

Session and Persistent Cookies

Session Cookies. These are cookies which expire once you close your web browser; and

Persistent Cookies. These are cookies which stay on your device for a set period of time or until you delete them.

All of our cookies are either session or persistent cookies.

First and Third-Party Cookies

First-party cookies. These are cookies set by the operator of the website being accessed by the user, such as a cookie set by mangolanguages.com;

Third-party cookies. These are cookies that are set by a party other than that of the website you are visiting. If you visit our Site or use Mango’s services and another party sets a cookie through our Site this would be a third-party cookie. For example, we use Google AdWords in connection with our Site.  We use the Google AdWords service to advertise on third-party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our Site.  Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to our Site.  You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page.

What are Clear Gifs?

At times, we work with third-party service partners that employ clear GIFs (also known as pixel tags, single pixel GIFs, web beacons or action tags) for our benefit to help us measure advertising effectiveness. Clear GIFs help us better manage content on our Site by informing us of what content is effective. Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of our users. The main difference between the two is that clear GIFs are invisible on the page and are much smaller, about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. Clear GIFs are not tied to your Personal Data. These third-party service partners use clear GIFs: (i) in HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients; (ii) to record when products have been accessed from our Site; and (iii) to track the visitor traffic on our Site. These clear GIFs allow us to measure the usage of our Site by visitors and the effectiveness of certain communications and marketing campaigns. We may also use clear GIFs in a similar manner in our own emails and on our Site.

Clear GIFs can “work with” existing cookies on a computer if they are both from the same website or advertising company. That means, for example, that if a person visited “www.companyX.com”, which uses an advertising company’s clear GIF, the website would match the clear GIFs identifier and the advertising company’s cookie ID number, to show the past online behavior for that computer. This collected information can be shared with the advertising company. We do, at times, provide such information to our third-party advertising service partners     .

How Does Mango Use Cookies?

There are several types of cookies that we use, some of which are issued directly by Mango or its service providers, while others may be issued by third parties. Cookies are used in the following ways:

How to Manage Your Cookie Preferences

You can set or change your cookie preferences at any time with our consent manager, which is accessible via the “Cookie Settings” button found at the top of this Cookie Policy.  You may also be directed to this policy and button by clicking the “Cookies” link in the footer of our Site.

Browser Cookies

It is also the case that you can withdraw or modify your consent to our use of cookies at any time by adjusting your web browser settings to accept, refuse or delete cookies. To do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the “Help”, “Tools” or “Edit” settings). For example, you may review the instructions provided by the following browsers: Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari Desktop, Safari Mobile; and Android browser. Please note that if you set your browser to refuse cookies, you may not be able to use all the features of our Site and services. To find out more information, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org. 

Interest-Based Advertising and Your Controls

Certain targeted advertisements that we (or a service provider acting on our behalf) display to you based on information about your online activities across websites and other interactive properties operated by third parties may include the “Ad Choices” icon or another mechanism to opt out of receiving interest-based advertisements. You may click on the “AdChoices” icon or visit www.aboutads.info to receive more information about the collection and use of information about your online activities for interest based advertising or to learn how to opt out of having your data used for interest based advertising by Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) participating companies.

• Canadian users can also visit youradchoices.ca.
• European users can also visit youronlinechoices.comto learn how to opt out of having their data used for interest-based advertising by European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) member companies.

The Network Advertising Initiative’s (NAI) Opt-Out Tool at www.networkadvertising.org/choices allows you to opt out from the use of information about your online activities for interest based advertising by NAI member companies. To opt-out of data collection for interest-based advertising across mobile applications by participating companies, download the DAA’s AppChoices mobile application opt-out offering here: https://youradchoices.com/appchoices.

On mobile devices, you may also be able to reset your device identifier (e.g., an iOS IDFA or an Android GAID) by going to your device settings and selecting “limit ad tracking.”

Please note that even if you opt out using the mechanisms above, you may still receive advertisements when using our Site or services.

Updates to this Policy

We may occasionally make changes to this Policy.

When we make material changes to this Policy, we will notify you by one or more of the following methods: posting the updated version on our Site, sending a notice to the email address you provided to us (if applicable), or placing a prominent notice on our Site.

How to Contact Us

Thank you for reading our Cookie Policy. If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at +1-248-254-7450 or email support at support@mangolanguages.com.