Last Updated: January 2025
Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains how The Flying Engineer (“we,” “us,” “our”) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit our website at www.theflyingengineer.com. This policy provides you with clear and comprehensive information about the cookies we use, why we use them, and your choices regarding cookies.
We believe in being transparent about our data practices, and this policy is part of our commitment to protecting your privacy while providing you with the best possible experience on our platform. This Cookie Policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, provide a better user experience, and provide information to website owners about how their site is being used.
Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. We use both types of cookies for different purposes.
Beyond traditional cookies, we also use similar technologies like pixel tags (also known as web beacons), local storage, and device fingerprinting. These technologies work similarly to cookies and are covered by this policy when we refer to “cookies.”
Why We Use Cookies
Cookies help us provide, protect, and improve The Flying Engineer platform. We use them for several important purposes that enhance your experience and help us better serve the aviation community.
First and foremost, cookies are essential for the basic functioning of our website. They enable core features like staying logged into your account as you navigate between pages, maintaining items in your session, and ensuring the security of your connection. Without these essential cookies, many parts of our website simply wouldn’t work.
We also use cookies to remember your preferences and settings. This means we can provide you with a personalized experience tailored to your needs. For example, cookies remember your language preference, your display settings, and what type of aviation services you’re most interested in. This saves you time and makes your experience more relevant and efficient.
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website. They tell us which pages are most popular, how users navigate through our site, where they encounter problems, and what features they find most valuable. This information is crucial for us to continuously improve our platform and ensure we’re meeting the needs of the aviation industry.
For our business users, cookies enable us to provide detailed analytics about listing performance, showing how many people viewed their profile, what search terms led users to their listing, and how their visibility compares to competitors. This data helps aviation businesses optimize their presence on our platform.
Types of Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the website to function properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation, secure access to your account, and maintaining your session while you’re logged in. These cookies don’t collect information about you that could be used for marketing or tracking purposes.
Examples include authentication cookies that keep you logged in, security cookies that help protect against fraud, load balancing cookies that ensure website stability, and session cookies that maintain your state as you navigate the site. You cannot opt out of these cookies as they are required for the website to operate.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies enable enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we’ve integrated into our pages. These cookies remember choices you make to improve your experience.
These include cookies that remember your username and preferences, your location and language settings, accessibility adjustments you’ve made, and whether you’ve already responded to surveys or pop-ups. If you disable these cookies, some or all of these services may not function properly, and you may need to reset your preferences each time you visit.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us understand which pages are the most and least popular, how visitors move around the site, and where they encounter technical issues.
We primarily use Google Analytics for this purpose, which collects information in an aggregated form. This includes data about page views and duration, bounce rates and exit pages, browser and operating system types, and general geographic location. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and anonymous. If you don’t allow these cookies, we won’t know when you’ve visited our site and won’t be able to monitor its performance.
Marketing and Advertising Cookies
These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other sites. They work by uniquely identifying your browser and device.
We use these cookies to measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns, to limit how many times you see an advertisement, to remember that you’ve visited our website, and to provide advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. If you don’t allow these cookies, you’ll still see advertisements, but they won’t be tailored to your interests.
Social Media Cookies
These cookies are set by social media services we’ve added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They’re capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests.
These include cookies from LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. They enable features like sharing articles directly to your social media feed, viewing embedded content from social platforms, and logging in using your social media credentials. If you don’t allow these cookies, you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools.
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, various third parties may set cookies when you visit our site. These third parties include service providers who help us operate our website, analytics providers who help us understand how our site is used, advertising partners who help us reach potential users, and social media platforms that enable content sharing.
We carefully select our third-party partners and require them to adhere to appropriate privacy and security standards. However, we don’t control these third-party cookies, and they’re governed by the respective third party’s privacy policy.
Major third parties whose cookies may be present on our site include Google (Analytics, Ads, reCAPTCHA), Facebook (Pixel, Social Plugins), LinkedIn (Insights Tag, Social Plugins), Stripe (Payment Processing), CloudFlare (Security and Performance), and Amazon Web Services (Content Delivery).
Your Cookie Choices
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. We provide several ways for you to control cookies and similar technologies.
Cookie Consent Banner
When you first visit our website, you’ll see a cookie consent banner that allows you to accept or customize your cookie preferences. You can choose to accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or customize your settings by category. Your preferences will be remembered for future visits.
Browser Controls
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can usually find these in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser. You can set your browser to refuse all cookies, accept only certain cookies, or alert you when a website attempts to set a cookie.
Please note that if you choose to reject cookies, you may not be able to use certain features of our website. For example, you won’t be able to stay logged in to your account, and your preferences won’t be remembered between visits.
Third-Party Opt-Out Tools
Many advertising networks offer opt-out tools that allow you to opt out of targeted advertising. These include the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out page, and the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance for users in Europe.
For mobile apps, you can use your device’s advertising settings. iOS devices offer “Limit Ad Tracking” and Android devices offer “Opt out of Ads Personalization.”
Google-Specific Controls
Since we use various Google services, you can control how Google uses your data by visiting Google’s Ads Settings, opting out of Google Analytics using their browser add-on, or managing your Google account privacy settings directly.
Cookies and Personal Data
Some cookies we use may process personal data. For example, authentication cookies contain your user ID, and analytics cookies may collect your IP address. When cookies involve personal data, they’re subject to our Privacy Policy in addition to this Cookie Policy.
We ensure that any personal data collected through cookies is processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently. We only use such data for the purposes described in this policy and our Privacy Policy, and we implement appropriate security measures to protect this information.
For cookies that process personal data, our legal basis is typically either your consent (which you provide through our cookie banner), our legitimate interests in operating and improving our website, or necessity for the performance of a contract with you.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, legal requirements, or for other operational reasons. When we make changes, we’ll update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this policy.
If we make significant changes to how we use cookies, we’ll notify you through our cookie consent banner, requiring you to review and accept the updated policy. We encourage you to check this policy periodically for any updates.
Contact Us
If you have questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us:
Email: privacy@theflyingengineer.com
Phone: US: (315) 670-7274 | UK: (020) 3239-8488
Address: PUBLISHING OFFICE SRL, Calea Turzii 111c, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
For more information about our privacy practices, please see our Privacy Policy.