Privacy Policy
This is the privacy/cookie policy for Lambda Guru, accessible from https://www.λ.guru/privacy-policy
What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how lambda.guru uses it and why lambda.guru sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
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. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
Account related cookies
If you create an account with lambda.guru then lambda.guru will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
Login related cookies
We use cookies when you are logged in so that lambda.guru can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
Email newsletters related cookies
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
Orders processing related cookies
This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that lambda.guru can process it properly.
Surveys related cookies
From time to time lambda.guru offers user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand my user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.
Forms related cookies
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Site preferences cookies
In order to provide you with a great experience on this site lambda.guru provides the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences lambda.guru needs to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases lambda.guru also uses cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping lambda.guru to understand how you use the site and ways that lambda.guru can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so lambda.guru can continue to produce engaging content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that lambda.guru can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps lambda.guru to understand how lambda.guru can improve the site for you.
From time to time lambda.guru tests new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When lambda.guru is still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring lambda.guru understands which optimisations my users appreciate the most.
As lambda.guru sells products it's important for lambda.guru to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to my site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that lambda.guru can accurately make business predictions that allow lambda.guru to monitor my advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.
The Google AdSense service lambda.guru uses to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.
For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.
We use adverts to offset the costs of running this site and provide funding for further development. The behavioural advertising cookies used by this site are designed to ensure that lambda.guru provides you with the most relevant adverts where possible by anonymously tracking your interests and presenting similar things that may be of interest.
Several partners advertise on my behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow lambda.guru to see if my customers have come to the site through one of my partner sites so that lambda.guru can credit them appropriately and where applicable allow my affiliate partners to provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, will set cookies through my site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on my site.
This Cookies Policy was created with the help of the Generator of GDPR Cookies Policy and the GDPR Privacy Policy.
However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of my preferred contact methods:
By email: webmaster@lambda.guru