Cookies Policy

    Last updated: May 4, 2025

    1. 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 we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies.

    Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to the website owners. Cookies enhance your browsing experience by:

    • Remembering your preferences and settings
    • Helping us understand how you use our website
    • Improving the speed and security of the site
    • Allowing you to share pages on social networks
    • Providing you with relevant, interest-based advertising

    We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored. However, this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the site's functionality.

    2. How We Use Cookies

    We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below:

    2.1. Essential Cookies

    These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable core functionality such as security, network management, and account access. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.

    2.2. Performance Cookies

    These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. They help us improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

    2.3. Functionality Cookies

    These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. Examples include:

    • Account related cookies: If you create an account with us, we 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 afterward to remember your site preferences.
    • Login related cookies: We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page.
    • Forms related cookies: When you submit data 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: To provide you with a great experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it.

    2.4. Targeting Cookies

    These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other sites. They do not directly store personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device.

    3. Third-Party Cookies

    In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter through this site:

    3.1. Analytics

    This site uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web, to help us understand how you use the site and ways that we 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 we can continue to produce engaging content.

    For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page. We also use tools like:

    • Hotjar to understand how users interact with our website
    • Mixpanel to analyze user behavior and optimize our user flows
    • Optimizely for A/B testing to improve our website design and functionality

    3.2. Social Media

    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, social media sites including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, will set cookies through our 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.

    3.3. Advertising

    We use cookies to deliver advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission.

    4. Managing Cookies

    4.1. Disabling Cookies

    You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser. 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 this site.

    Most modern browsers allow you to:

    • View your cookies
    • Delete cookies individually or in entirety
    • Block third party cookies
    • Block cookies from particular sites
    • Block all cookies from being set
    • Delete all cookies when you close your browser

    4.2. Managing Cookie Preferences

    You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the "Cookie Settings" button on our website. You can then adjust the slider to different categories of cookies that we use to 'on' or 'off' and save your preferences.

    5. Cookie Consent

    When you first visit our website, we ask for your consent to use cookies. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. If you choose to decline, we will respect your choice and only use essential cookies.

    You can change your mind at any time by clicking on the "Cookie Settings" link in the footer of our website.

    6. More Information

    Hopefully, that has clarified things for you. 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 our site. However, if you are still looking for more information, you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods.

    If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us at kyle@rankhogs.com or +1 (913) 214-2243, or write to us at 25112 W 83rd Terrace, Lenexa, KS 66227.