Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Gouho uses cookies and similar technologies on gouho.com. It explains what cookies are, why they may be used, how they support website functionality, analytics, advertising, account features, security, and how users can manage cookies through their browser settings.
Gouho is a free online tools website that offers useful tools for everyday digital tasks. Some parts of the website may use cookies or similar technologies to keep the website working correctly, understand how visitors use the site, support optional account features, measure performance, and support advertising that helps keep Gouho free to use.
1. What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files that a website or third-party service may store on a user’s browser or device. Cookies can help a website remember information about a visit, support basic website functions, understand how the website is used, or support advertising and measurement.
Cookies are not all the same. Some cookies are needed for a website to work properly. Other cookies may support analytics, advertising, performance measurement, account features, or user preferences.
Similar technologies may include browser storage, local storage, session storage, pixels, tags, identifiers, and other browser-based technologies. These technologies can support similar purposes, such as keeping a session working, remembering preferences, measuring visits, or supporting advertising.
2. How Gouho Uses Cookies
Gouho may use cookies and similar technologies for several website-related purposes:
- To keep essential website functions working correctly.
- To support optional free account features, such as login sessions and saved favorites.
- To understand how visitors use Gouho through Google Analytics.
- To measure website performance, page behavior, and tool usage.
- To support advertising, ad delivery, ad measurement, and relevant or personalized advertising where applicable.
- To help detect abuse, invalid activity, excessive automated requests, or suspicious traffic.
- To improve the website, tools, layout, speed, and user experience.
Gouho does not currently provide cookie or privacy preference settings on the website. Users can manage cookies through their browser settings.
3. Cookie and Storage Types
| Cookie / Storage Type | Purpose | Required? |
|---|---|---|
| Essential cookies | Support core website functions such as page loading, security, sessions, and basic operation. | Usually required |
| Account/session cookies | Help keep optional account login sessions working and support account-related convenience features. | Required for account features |
| Preference cookies or storage | May remember interface choices, tool preferences, favorites, or similar convenience settings where available. | Optional or feature-dependent |
| Analytics cookies | Help Gouho understand website visits, tool usage, pages viewed, device types, and performance through Google Analytics. | Not always required for core tool use |
| Advertising cookies | Support ad delivery, ad measurement, limiting repeated ads, invalid activity detection, and relevant or personalized advertising where applicable. | Not required for basic website access |
| Security and abuse-prevention technologies | Help detect suspicious activity, bots, excessive automated requests, spam, or attempts to misuse the website. | Often required for protection |
| Similar browser technologies | May include local storage, session storage, pixels, tags, and identifiers used for website operation, analytics, advertising, preferences, or performance. | Depends on purpose |
4. Essential Cookies
Essential cookies help Gouho provide basic website functionality. These cookies may be used to keep pages working, support secure requests, manage sessions, prevent certain types of abuse, and maintain normal website behavior.
Without essential cookies, some parts of the website may not load correctly, account sessions may not work, or some tools may not function as expected.
Essential cookies are generally used because they are necessary for the website to operate properly, not because they are used for advertising or analytics.
5. Account and Preference Cookies
Gouho can be used without creating an account for its main tools. Users may optionally create a free account to access extra convenience features, such as saving tools to favorites for faster access.
If a user creates a free account, cookies or similar technologies may be used to keep the user signed in, protect the account session, remember account-related choices, and support saved favorites or similar convenience features.
Users should keep their account details private and sign out when using shared or public devices.
6. Google Analytics Cookies
Gouho uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the website. Google Analytics may use cookies or similar technologies to collect usage information and report website statistics.
Analytics information may include pages visited, tools used, approximate location, device type, browser type, session behavior, and interactions with the website. This helps Gouho understand which tools are useful, where users may experience problems, and how the website can be improved.
Google Analytics is used for website measurement and improvement. It is not used to manually read uploaded file contents.
7. Advertising Cookies and Ad Measurement
Gouho uses or may use advertising to help support the free website. Advertising makes it possible for Gouho to offer useful tools without requiring payment for everyday use.
Third-party advertising services may use cookies or similar technologies to support ad delivery, measure ad performance, count views or clicks, limit repeated ads, detect invalid activity, and support relevant or personalized advertising depending on browser settings, user choices, and applicable rules.
Gouho does not mention a specific advertising provider by name in this Cookie Policy. Advertising-related cookies and similar technologies may still be used by third-party advertising services according to their own technologies, policies, and controls.
8. Browser Storage and Similar Technologies
Browser storage is different from cookies, but it can be used for similar website functions. Examples may include local storage and session storage. According to MDN, local storage can persist across browser sessions, while session storage is tied to a page session. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}
Gouho may use browser storage or similar technologies for normal website behavior, account-related convenience features, interface preferences, tool preferences, analytics, advertising, security, or performance purposes.
Browser storage should not be understood as permanent storage for uploaded files. Uploaded files and generated files that require server processing are handled temporarily and are automatically deleted after about one hour.
9. Uploaded Files and Cookies
Some Gouho tools may require users to upload files. Uploaded files are processed automatically to perform the selected tool action. Gouho does not manually review or read uploaded file contents during normal operation.
Cookies are not used as a long-term storage system for uploaded files. Uploaded files and generated files are processed temporarily and are automatically deleted after about one hour.
Users should download any generated results they want to keep before the temporary availability period ends.
10. Third-Party Cookies and Services
Some cookies or similar technologies may be set or used by third-party services involved in analytics, advertising, security, performance measurement, hosting, or website operation.
These third-party services may process information according to their own policies and technologies. For example, analytics services may use cookies to report website usage statistics, and advertising services may use cookies or similar technologies to support ad delivery and measurement.
Gouho does not control every technical detail of third-party cookies, but Gouho aims to explain the main categories of cookies and similar technologies that may be involved when using the website.
11. How to Manage Cookies
Gouho does not currently provide cookie or privacy preference settings on the website. Users can manage cookies through their browser settings.
Most browsers allow users to:
- Delete existing cookies.
- Block all cookies.
- Block third-party cookies.
- Allow cookies only for specific websites.
- Clear browsing data after closing the browser.
- Manage site permissions and storage settings.
The exact steps depend on the browser and device. Users should check their browser’s help section or privacy settings for detailed instructions.
12. Effects of Disabling Cookies
Disabling cookies may affect how Gouho works. Some website features may still be available, but others may become limited or less convenient.
For example:
- Optional account login sessions may not work correctly.
- Saved favorites or account-related convenience features may not function as expected.
- Some tools or pages may lose preferences or interface settings.
- Analytics may become less accurate.
- Advertising may become less relevant or harder to measure.
- Security or abuse-prevention systems may be affected.
Users can adjust browser settings based on their privacy preferences and how they want the website to behave.
13. Updates to This Cookie Policy
Gouho may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in cookies, analytics, advertising, account features, browser technologies, website operation, or applicable requirements.
When this Cookie Policy is updated, the new version will be published on this page. Users should review this page from time to time to stay informed about how Gouho uses cookies and similar technologies.