Last updated: July 20, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Wild Birds USA uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit https://wildbirdsusa.net/.
In this policy, “Wild Birds USA,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the owner and operator of this website. “You” and “your” refer to anyone who visits or uses our website.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites place on your computer, mobile phone, tablet, or other device.
Cookies help a website recognise your browser or device. They can remember information about your visit, such as your preferences, pages viewed, or cookie choices.
Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser. Others may remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them.
2. Why We Use Cookies
Wild Birds USA may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Make the website work correctly
- Keep the website safe and secure
- Remember your settings and choices
- Understand how visitors use the website
- Measure website traffic and performance
- Improve our bird guides, articles, and website design
- Prevent spam, fraud, and misuse
- Support contact forms and newsletter registration
- Measure email and newsletter activity
- Display and measure advertisements, where used
- Support embedded videos, images, or social media content
- Remember your cookie preferences
We only use cookies for legitimate website, security, communication, analytics, and advertising purposes.
3. Types of Cookies We May Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are needed for the website to work properly.
They may be used for:
- Website security
- Page navigation
- Saving cookie choices
- Preventing spam
- Managing forms
- Protecting the website from attacks
- Maintaining basic website functions
These cookies cannot normally be switched off through our cookie settings because the website may not work correctly without them.
You may still be able to block them through your browser, but some parts of the website may stop working.
Preference and Functionality Cookies
These cookies remember choices you make when using the website.
For example, they may remember:
- Your language
- Your display preferences
- Your region
- Your cookie choices
- Settings selected during an earlier visit
These cookies help us provide a more convenient and personalised experience.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how people use Wild Birds USA.
They may collect information such as:
- Pages visited
- Time spent on a page
- Links clicked
- Browser type
- Device type
- General location
- Referring website
- Website errors
- Popular articles and bird topics
We use this information to understand which content visitors find useful and to improve the performance, structure, and design of the website.
Analytics information is normally reviewed in an aggregated form rather than being used to identify individual visitors directly.
Advertising and Targeting Cookies
Wild Birds USA may use advertising cookies if advertisements, sponsored content, or affiliate marketing are added to the website.
These cookies may be used to:
- Display advertisements
- Measure advertisement performance
- Limit how often an advertisement is shown
- Understand whether someone clicked on an advertisement
- Measure affiliate referrals
- Show content or advertisements based on interests
- Understand activity across different websites
Advertising cookies may be placed by third-party advertising or affiliate partners.
Where required, these cookies will only be used after you have given permission through our cookie banner or preference centre.
Newsletter and Email Cookies
When you register for a newsletter, cookies or similar tracking technologies may be used to:
- Process your subscription
- Remember that a form was submitted
- Prevent fake or automated registrations
- Measure whether an email was opened
- Measure whether a link in an email was clicked
- Understand which bird topics interest subscribers
- Improve future newsletters
You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in an email.
Social Media Cookies
Our website may contain social media buttons, feeds, or links.
These may connect to services such as:
- X or Twitter
- YouTube
- Telegram
A social media company may place cookies or collect information when you interact with its content.
This may happen even when you do not click a social media button, especially when you are already logged in to an account with that platform.
Wild Birds USA does not control cookies placed by social media companies.
Embedded Content Cookies
Some pages may contain content provided by another website, such as:
- Videos
- Images
- Maps
- Audio players
- Social media posts
- Interactive tools
Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party website directly.
The provider may use cookies, pixels, or similar technologies to collect information about your device and your interaction with the content.
4. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
First-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are placed directly by Wild Birds USA.
They may be used to operate the website, remember your settings, manage forms, and save your cookie choices.
Third-Party Cookies
Third-party cookies are placed by services that Wild Birds USA uses or displays on the website.
These services may include:
- Website analytics providers
- Email and newsletter providers
- Advertising networks
- Affiliate platforms
- Social media companies
- Video-hosting services
- Website security providers
- Spam-prevention services
Third-party companies control their own cookies and process information according to their own privacy policies.
We recommend reviewing the privacy and cookie policies of those providers.
5. Similar Tracking Technologies
In addition to cookies, we may use similar technologies such as:
Pixels and Web Beacons
A pixel is a small piece of code or a tiny image that can help measure page visits, email opens, advertisement activity, or link clicks.
Local Storage
Local storage allows a website to save information directly in your browser. It may be used to remember preferences or website settings.
Software Development Tools
Some website services use technical tools that collect information about website performance, errors, or visitor activity.
Device and Browser Information
A service may collect technical details about your browser, operating system, screen size, or device to help the website work correctly and prevent fraud.
In this policy, references to “cookies” also include these similar technologies where appropriate.
6. Cookies Currently Used on Our Website
The exact cookies used by Wild Birds USA may change when we add, remove, or update website services.
Our cookies may fall into the following categories:
| Cookie category | Main purpose | Typical duration |
| Strictly necessary | Security, forms, navigation and cookie choices | Session or up to 12 months |
| Preferences | Remembering visitor settings | Session or up to 12 months |
| Analytics | Measuring visits and website performance | Session or up to 24 months |
| Newsletter | Managing subscriptions and measuring email activity | Session or according to the provider |
| Advertising | Advertising, affiliate measurement and personalisation | According to the provider |
| Social and embedded content | Supporting external videos and social content | According to the provider |
A detailed list of active cookies, including their names, providers, purposes, and expiry periods, may be available through our website’s cookie preference centre.
7. Your Cookie Choices
When you first visit Wild Birds USA, you may see a cookie banner.
Depending on your location and the cookies being used, the banner may allow you to:
- Accept all cookies
- Reject optional cookies
- Choose individual cookie categories
- Save your preferences
- Learn more about our cookie use
Strictly necessary cookies may remain active because they are required to operate and protect the website.
You can change your cookie choices later by selecting the Cookie Settings link on our website, where available.
Withdrawing permission will not affect cookie use that took place before you changed your choice.
8. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most internet browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings.
Depending on your browser, you may be able to:
- View stored cookies
- Delete individual cookies
- Delete all cookies
- Block new cookies
- Block third-party cookies
- Receive a warning before a cookie is stored
- Automatically delete cookies when the browser closes
The steps are different for each browser. Check your browser’s privacy or security settings for instructions.
Blocking all cookies may affect the website. Some pages, forms, preferences, or features may not work properly.
Cookie settings usually apply only to the browser and device where you selected them. You may need to update your choices separately on each browser and device you use.
9. Advertising Choices
Where Wild Birds USA uses targeted advertising, applicable visitors may have the right to opt out of certain advertising activities or the sale or sharing of personal information.
You may be able to exercise these choices through:
- Our cookie banner
- Our cookie preference centre
- A “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link
- Your browser settings
- An industry advertising opt-out service
- A legally recognised browser privacy signal
Your choice may apply only to the device and browser where it was made.
10. Global Privacy Control
Global Privacy Control, also known as GPC, is a browser-based privacy preference signal.
Where applicable law requires it, Wild Birds USA will treat a valid GPC signal as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information connected with that browser or device.
You may still need to manage other cookie choices through our cookie settings.
11. Do Not Track
Some browsers include a “Do Not Track” setting.
There is currently no single method followed by all websites and online services for responding to traditional Do Not Track signals.
Wild Birds USA may not respond to a traditional Do Not Track signal unless applicable law requires us to do so.
This is different from legally recognised opt-out preference signals such as Global Privacy Control.
12. How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device
The length of time a cookie remains on your device depends on the type of cookie.
Session Cookies
Session cookies normally expire when you close your browser.
Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them.
Third-party providers decide how long their cookies remain active. Their retention periods may be different from ours.
We aim to keep cookies only for as long as reasonably necessary for their stated purpose.
13. Children’s Privacy
Wild Birds USA does not knowingly use cookies to create targeted advertising profiles about children under 13.
Our website is designed for a general audience and is not intended to collect personal information directly from children under 13.
A parent or guardian who believes that a child has provided personal information through the website should contact us.
14. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when:
- We changed the website
- We add or remove cookies
- We use a new service provider
- Our advertising or analytics practices change
- Privacy laws or regulatory guidance change
The updated version will be published on this page with a new “Last updated” date.
We encourage visitors to check this page occasionally.
15. Contact Us
For questions about this Cookie Policy or the cookies used on Wild Birds USA, contact:
Wild Birds USA
Email: wildbirdsusa@gmail.com
Mailing address: Killeen, TX, United States
Website: https://wildbirdsusa.net/
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