COOKIE POLICY

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or to improve efficiency and security.

How we use cookies

We use strictly necessary cookies to operate our website securely and enable core functionality.

You can also consent to the use of non-essential analytics cookies that help us understand how visitors use Everything Apple, improve the website, and measure article views.

Types of cookies we use

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are required for the website to function properly. These are always active and do not need user consent.

We use the following strictly necessary cookies:

Authentication Cookies (.AspNetCore.Cookies) used to keep authorised users securely logged in to the website.

Security Cookies (.AspNetCore.Antiforgery) to protect the admin areas of the site and prevent malicious requests.

'EAQuizAnonymousID' is a cookie assigned to your session if a user completes the Daily Quiz, so that we can add the score to the leaderboard and provide users with an option to create an account and save their score.

Cookies to integrate Buy Me a Coffee

Buy me a coffee & Stripe implement their own cookies allowing for donations to be made directly from the site. These cookies are used when you click the yellow widget in the bottom right.

Buy me a coffee manages these cookies seperately, with a pop-up asking for you to Accept or Decline these cookies if you use the service.

Non-essential Analytics cookies (Microsoft Azure Application Insights)

We use Microsoft Azure Application Insights to understand how visitors use our website and to help us improve performance and reliability.

This service may set cookies such as ai_user and ai_session to:

- Distinguish unique visitors

- Measure how long visitors spend on the site

- Understand how pages are used

- Help diagnose errors and improve website performance

These cookies use identifiers associated with your browser and are not intended to directly identify you.

Application Insights is only loaded if you give consent. You are asked for consent when you first visit the website. If you have previously made a choice, you can update your preferences at the top of this page.

Non-essential Analytics cookies (Google Analytics)

We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4), provided by Google, to understand how visitors use Everything Apple and to measure website traffic and engagement.

Google Analytics may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information such as:

- Pages visited

- How visitors navigate the website

- Engagement and session information

- Traffic sources

- General website usage statistics

Google Analytics uses identifiers to distinguish visitors and sessions. These identifiers are not intended by Everything Apple to directly identify you.

Google Analytics is only loaded if you give consent. You are asked for consent when you first visit the website. If you have previously made a choice, you can update your preferences at the top of this page.

Non-essential Analytics cookies (View count)

If you have accepted cookies, your session is assigned a unique ID that is not identifiable to you. The unique code allows us to accurately record article views, by remembering if you have viewed that page already in the past half hour.

Cookies we do not use

We currently do not use cookies for advertising or marketing purposes.

Managing Cookies

Cookies can be managed at the top of this page or deleted through your browser settings. Disabling strictly necessary cookies may break parts of the website.

Changing this policy

We may update the cookie policy at any time if new features or services are introduced to the website.

Contact

If you have any questions regarding our Cookie Policy, please get in touch at contact@everything-apple.com.

Last Updated: 7th October 2026