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Cookies are used by web developers to help users navigate their websites efficiently and perform certain functions. Cookies are often perceived as ‘bad‘ due to their excessive use by the internet giants (you know who they are) using them to further their own sales & marketing opportunities. Rest assured that we have no interest in identifying visitors to the site or bothering visitors with unsolicited emails.
If you subscribe to the site then we will send occasional emails to advise on new posts and site news. In the first year of operation we have sent just 4 emails and would see a maximum of 1 email a month as a goal – to advise of new posts added that month.
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How does this website use cookies?
Belfast Entries does not sell goods or services
We have nothing to sell on this site and have no interest in identifying you.
We do use Google ads on the site to generate some income to cover the website costs but this does not come close to matching the time & effort involved in researching and preparing the posts. Google ads can, of course, be avoided using a variety of “ad blocking” software.
We may add ‘classified adverts’ to the website at some stage but will not attempt to identify website visitors reading those ads.
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We do not set cookies to identify you. Like many websites we use ‘website analytics‘ software to count the number of website visitors, generic locations (eg Belfast, London) and posts read. We do not see names or addresses etc.
We do not know who you are as this is irrelevant to us. Analytics allow us to see how many readers we have and the most popular website articles so that we can improve our content and produce more popular posts.
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Like many websites, we use 3rd party utilities to make the website easy to use – eg pre-built themes to manage the website appearance & menus etc and search utilities to help you find content. Some of these utility suppliers will set their own cookies to make their software work. We cannot see or update their cookies.
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Cost of Living Crisis
Given the current cost of living crisis that will impact so many in coming months we have added a page signposting organisations that may be able to offer support. We have no relationship with these organisations and cannot offer financial advice but we hope that some of the links may prove useful.
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