Last Updated: July 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how GeoData Mastery («we», «us», or «our») uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit our website at geodatamastery.com. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
In some cases, we may use cookies to collect personal information, or that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information. For more information about how we process your personal data, please consult our Privacy Policy.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer, tablet, or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information and deliver personalized advertising.
- First-party cookies: Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, GeoData Mastery).
- Third-party cookies: Cookies set by parties other than the website owner. These enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive spatial content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
2. Why Do We Use Cookies?
We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our website to operate, and we refer to these as «essential» or «strictly necessary» cookies. Other cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Website—for example, to understand which geospatial tutorials or software comparisons are the most helpful. Third parties serve cookies through our website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes.
The specific types of first- and third-party cookies served through our website and the purposes they perform are described below:
2.1. Essential Website Cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, you cannot refuse them without impacting how our site functions. You can block or delete them by changing your browser settings (see Section 4).
2.2. Performance and Analytics Cookies
These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are. For example, they help us see if engineers and surveyors are spending more time on our drone photogrammetry articles or our QGIS databases guides. This data helps us customize our website and improve the technical resources we offer. (e.g., Google Analytics).
2.3. Advertising and Targeting Cookies
These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.
As a free educational and B2B technical resource, we rely on advertising revenue to maintain our servers and produce high-quality Geomatics content.
3. Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising
Our website uses Google AdSense to publish ads. When you view or click on an ad, a cookie will be set to help better provide advertisements that may be of interest to you on this and other websites.
- DoubleClick DART Cookie: Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet.
- Opting Out of DART: Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
- Personalization: You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
Please note that opting out of advertising cookies does not mean you will not see advertisements; it simply means the advertisements will no longer be tailored to your web preferences or usage patterns.
4. How Can You Control or Delete Cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by clicking on the appropriate opt-out links provided in the cookie banner that appears when you first visit our site.
Furthermore, you can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website, though your access to some functionality and areas of our website (like interactive GIS maps or embedded videos) may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.
Here is how to manage cookies on the most popular browsers:
5. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.
6. Where Can You Get Further Information?
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us at:
- Contact: Jeremias (Site Administrator)
- Email: legal@geodatamastery.com
- Location: Barcelona, Spain