Cookie Policy

Effective Date: September 28, 2026

Welcome to Figurative Devices.

Website: FigurativeDevices.com
Owner and Operator: Ahmad Naeem
Contact: contact@figurativedevices.com

This Cookie Policy explains how Figurative Devices (“we,” “our,” or “us”) uses cookies and similar technologies to support website functionality, maintain security, understand website usage, and provide advertising where applicable.

This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that a website may store on your device when you visit it.

Cookies and similar technologies can help websites remember information about a visit, maintain preferences, provide functionality, support security, measure website usage, and deliver or measure advertising.

Cookies may include:

Session cookies, which are generally removed when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a specified period.
First-party cookies, which are set by the website you are visiting.
Third-party cookies, which may be set by external services used by the website.

Similar technologies may include local storage, pixels, web beacons, and other identifiers that perform functions similar to cookies.

2. How Figurative Devices Uses Cookies

Depending on the features and services active on the website, Figurative Devices may use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes.

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies may be used to support the basic operation and security of the website.

They may help with:

Website functionality
Security
Spam and abuse prevention
Authentication where applicable
Maintaining reliable website operation
Protecting website systems

These technologies may be necessary for particular website features to function properly.

3. Analytics Cookies

Where analytics services are enabled, Figurative Devices may use cookies or similar technologies to understand how visitors interact with the website.

Analytics information may include:

Number of visitors
Popular pages
Traffic sources
General visitor interactions
Website performance
Technical information about website usage

This information helps us understand how visitors use Figurative Devices and improve our educational content and website experience.

4. Advertising Cookies

Figurative Devices may use third-party advertising services, including Google AdSense, to display advertisements.

Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, advertising identifiers, or similar technologies to:

Display advertisements
Provide personalized advertising where permitted
Measure advertising performance
Understand interactions with advertisements
Detect invalid activity and protect advertising systems

Advertising technologies may use information about a user’s previous visits to this website or other websites.

Google’s use of cookies and similar technologies is subject to Google’s applicable policies.

5. Google AdSense

If Google AdSense is enabled on Figurative Devices, Google and its advertising partners may place or read cookies on visitors’ browsers or use similar technologies when advertisements are displayed.

These technologies may be used to provide, personalize, measure, and protect advertising services.

Visitors can manage personalized advertising preferences through:

Google Ads Settings:
https://adssettings.google.com

More information about how Google uses information from websites and apps that use its services is available here:

How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

6. Third-Party Cookies and Services

Some third-party services used by Figurative Devices may use cookies or similar technologies.

Depending on the services active on the website, these may include:

Google Services

Google services, including Google AdSense and analytics services where enabled, may use cookies or similar technologies for advertising, measurement, analytics, security, and related functions.

Security and Performance Services

Figurative Devices may use security, hosting, content-delivery, or performance services such as Cloudflare.

These services may use cookies or similar technologies for purposes such as:

Security checks
Bot and abuse protection
Fraud prevention
Rate limiting
Performance and reliability
Website security

The exact cookies used may depend on the services and configurations active on the website.

Third-party providers may change their cookies, technologies, names, or retention periods as their services are updated.

Visitors should review the applicable privacy and cookie information provided by those third-party services.

7. Consent and Privacy Choices

Where applicable law requires consent before non-essential cookies or similar technologies are used, visitors will be provided with appropriate choices through the website’s consent mechanism.

For visitors in jurisdictions where consent is required for personalized advertising or certain tracking technologies, applicable consent choices will be presented in accordance with the relevant requirements.

This may include visitors in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland.

Visitors may also manage certain cookies through their browser settings and available advertising controls.

8. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser

Most modern web browsers provide controls that allow you to manage cookies.

Depending on your browser, you may be able to:

Block cookies
Delete existing cookies
Allow cookies only from certain websites
Receive notifications when cookies are being stored
Block third-party cookies

Disabling or deleting cookies may affect certain website features or functionality.

Browser-based controls may not replace a consent mechanism where consent is required by applicable law.

9. Cookie Retention

The length of time a cookie remains on your device depends on the type of cookie and the service that sets it.

Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser, while others may remain for a specified period.

Third-party services may determine their own cookie durations.

Cookie names, purposes, and retention periods may change when website features, plugins, security services, analytics tools, or advertising services are updated.

10. Children’s Privacy

Figurative Devices provides educational content for students, teachers, writers, English learners, and general audiences.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children in circumstances where applicable law requires parental or guardian consent.

If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us in circumstances where such collection was not appropriate, please contact us so that we can review the situation and take appropriate action.

11. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location and applicable privacy laws, you may have rights concerning personal information processed through cookies and similar technologies.

These rights may include:

Requesting information about how personal information is used
Requesting access to personal information
Requesting correction of inaccurate information
Requesting deletion of certain information
Objecting to certain processing
Managing applicable cookie or advertising preferences

For privacy-related requests, please contact us using the details below.

12. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when our website, services, advertising technologies, security services, or legal requirements change.

When changes are made, we will update the Effective Date shown at the beginning of this policy.

We encourage visitors to review this page periodically to remain informed about how cookies and similar technologies are used.

13. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how cookies are used on Figurative Devices, please contact us.

Figurative Devices
Website: FigurativeDevices.com
Owner and Operator: Ahmad Naeem
Email: contact@figurativedevices.com