Last updated: August 18, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how DongChannel may use cookies and similar technologies when you visit dongchannel.com.
DongChannel is operated by:
Mai Dinh Dong
Founder & Operator, DongChannel
Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Email: hello@dongchannel.com
This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains more broadly how information may be processed when you use the website.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information that a website or related service may store on or access from your browser or device.
Cookies can serve different purposes, such as:
- Keeping a website functioning correctly.
- Remembering preferences.
- Maintaining security.
- Measuring website usage.
- Supporting analytics.
- Remembering consent choices.
- Supporting advertising or attribution where such technologies are actually enabled.
Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser. Others remain for a defined period or until they are removed.
Similar Technologies
Websites may also use technologies that perform functions similar to cookies.
Depending on the implementation, these may include:
- Browser local storage.
- Session storage.
- Tracking pixels.
- Scripts or tags.
- Referral identifiers.
- URL or link parameters.
- Other browser or device storage/access technologies.
This policy uses the term cookies broadly where appropriate to make the explanation easier to understand, but the website’s actual technology audit should also consider similar technologies.
First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
First-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are set or accessed in connection with the DongChannel domain.
They may be used for website functionality, security, preferences or other purposes that are actually enabled.
Third-Party Cookies
Third-party cookies may be set by external services loaded through or interacted with on DongChannel.
Depending on the services enabled on the website, these could include providers used for:
- Analytics.
- Embedded content.
- Security.
- Advertising.
- Other third-party functionality.
DongChannel lists a third-party provider here only once its use has been verified. The one verified third-party provider is Google, for Google Analytics, and only after you consent to the statistics category. Any further provider will be added here in the same change that introduces it.
Categories of Cookies
The categories below describe the types of cookies or similar technologies that may be relevant to DongChannel.
The Cookies and Technologies Currently Used section contains the verified list actually detected on the production website.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are used where they are required for a service or functionality that a visitor requests, or where they are necessary for core website operation.
Depending on the website configuration, these may support functions such as:
- Security.
- Session management.
- Load balancing.
- Fraud or abuse prevention.
- Saving a user’s cookie consent choice.
- Other essential technical functions.
Strictly necessary cookies should not be used as a label for analytics, advertising or other optional tracking simply to avoid consent requirements.
Preference or Functional Cookies
Preference or functional cookies may remember choices that improve the user experience.
Examples may include:
- Display preferences.
- Language preferences.
- Interface settings.
- Other optional functionality.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies or similar technologies can help a website understand how visitors use pages and features.
Analytics may involve information such as:
- Page views.
- Navigation patterns.
- Approximate session activity.
- Referral information.
- Device or browser information.
If analytics technologies require consent under applicable law, they should not be activated until the required consent has been obtained.
Advertising and Remarketing Cookies
Advertising or remarketing technologies may be used to measure advertising performance, create audiences or personalize advertising.
These would include systems such as Google Ads tags, Meta Pixel, Microsoft Advertising UET or TikTok Pixel.
None of these are installed on DongChannel, and this policy should not be read as implying otherwise.
Embedded Content
Third-party embedded content can sometimes cause requests to or storage/access by another provider.
Examples may include embedded:
- YouTube videos.
- Vimeo videos.
- Maps.
- Social media posts.
- Chat widgets.
- Other external media or widgets.
Whether these technologies require a separate consent mechanism depends on the implementation and applicable law.
Cookies and Technologies Currently Used
The list below was verified on 18 August 2026, in a browser that had never visited DongChannel before, by recording every cookie and every network request the pages made.
Before you make a consent choice, no cookies at all are set and no request is sent to any third party. Every request a page makes goes to dongchannel.com itself. The Google Analytics script is present in the page but is not run and is not downloaded until you consent.
Consent choice storage — strictly necessary
These are set by Complianz once you answer the consent banner, so that you are not asked again on every page. They are first-party and contain no identifier for you.
| Cookie | Purpose | Retention |
|---|---|---|
cmplz_functional | Stores your choice for the functional category | 12 months |
cmplz_preferences | Stores your choice for the preferences category | 12 months |
cmplz_statistics | Stores your choice for the statistics category | 12 months |
cmplz_marketing | Stores your choice for the marketing category | 12 months |
cmplz_banner-status | Records that the consent banner has been answered | 12 months |
cmplz_policy_id | Records which version of this policy you agreed to | 12 months |
cmplz_consented_services | Records which individual services you agreed to | 12 months |
Statistics — only after you consent
| Cookie | Set by | Purpose | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Google Analytics 4 (G-B443KBRT67) | Distinguishes one visitor from another | 400 days |
_ga_B443KBRT67 | Google Analytics 4 | Keeps track of the current visit | 400 days |
These two cookies are created only if you consent to the statistics category. If you decline, they are never set. Both retention periods were read from the cookies themselves in a live session, rather than taken from documentation.
Not used on this website
No advertising or marketing cookies are set. No social media embeds, advertising pixels or remarketing tags are loaded. The marketing and preferences categories appear in the consent banner because the consent tool offers them as standard; nothing on this website currently uses either.
Technologies that are not cookies
Two things are visible from your browser without storing anything in it, and are named here rather than left out:
| Technology | Provider | Purpose | Stored in your browser |
|---|---|---|---|
| Link parameters on affiliate links | DongChannel | Identify which page and which position a click came from | No — recorded on our server only |
| Author profile image | Gravatar (Automattic) | Displays the author’s picture | No cookie set, but the request reveals your IP address to the provider |
This section is maintained by hand and is re-checked whenever a service is added to or removed from the website.
Cookie Consent
DongChannel uses Complianz to ask for and record your cookie choices. Non-essential technologies are blocked until you consent to them, and the banner treats silence, inactivity and continuing to browse as not consenting.
DongChannel currently applies the same United Kingdom based consent configuration — UK GDPR, PECR and the Data Protection Act — to all visitors, wherever they are, rather than varying it by location.
DongChannel also respects Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals sent by your browser.
Strictly necessary technologies continue to operate where they do not require consent under the applicable rules.
Changing Your Cookie Preferences
You can change or withdraw your choice at any time using the consent controls on this website. Withdrawing consent stops the statistics cookies from being set again.
Visitors can also manage cookies through their browser settings.
Browser controls may allow you to:
- View stored cookies.
- Delete cookies.
- Block some or all cookies.
- Restrict third-party cookies.
Blocking certain cookies may affect website functionality.
Affiliate Links and Third-Party Attribution
Some pages on DongChannel may contain affiliate links.
When you click an affiliate link, you may be redirected to a merchant, service provider or affiliate network.
Those external parties may use cookies, referral identifiers, link parameters or other attribution technologies to determine whether a qualifying action resulted from the referral.
The merchant or affiliate network controls its own:
- Tracking technology.
- Attribution period.
- Cookie duration.
- Privacy practices.
- Data retention.
DongChannel does not control cookies placed by an external merchant after you leave dongchannel.com.
For more information about affiliate relationships, see our Affiliate Disclosure.
First-Party Affiliate Click Tracking
Affiliate links on this website pass through an address of the form dongchannel.com/go/… before forwarding you to the merchant.
That step does not set a cookie and does not write anything to your browser’s storage. The audit confirmed no Set-Cookie header on the redirect.
What it does is record an entry on our own server. Because that is server-side processing rather than a cookie, it is described in the Privacy Policy rather than here.
The outbound link does carry parameters identifying the page and the position the link appeared in, which is how a click is attributed without needing a cookie.
Server Logs
Standard server, CDN or security logs are not necessarily cookies.
A web server or security provider may process information such as IP addresses, user-agent information, request timestamps or requested URLs without setting a browser cookie.
Those practices are primarily addressed in the Privacy Policy.
However, if a security or content delivery service also sets cookies for public visitors, those cookies would be included in the verified table on this page.
Email and Contact
Simply sending an email to DongChannel does not, by itself, mean that DongChannel should claim a marketing cookie has been placed on your device.
If forms, newsletter tools or email marketing technologies are introduced and they create cookies or similar tracking, the policy should be updated accordingly.
How Long Cookies Last
Cookie duration depends on the specific technology.
Cookies may be:
Session Cookies
These generally expire when the browser session ends.
Persistent Cookies
These remain for a specified period or until they are removed.
Where cookies are in use, verified durations should be given rather than a single generic period applied to everything, because different technologies and providers use different periods.
External Websites
DongChannel links to third-party websites.
After you leave DongChannel, the destination website’s own cookie and privacy practices apply.
We recommend reviewing the relevant privacy or cookie information provided by those websites where appropriate.
Updates to This Cookie Policy
DongChannel may update this Cookie Policy when:
- Website functionality changes.
- Cookies or similar technologies are added or removed.
- Analytics or advertising services change.
- Third-party integrations change.
- Consent mechanisms change.
- Applicable privacy requirements change.
The Last updated date should be changed when a material revision is published.
Contact
Questions about cookies or privacy on DongChannel can be sent to:
Mai Dinh Dong
Founder & Operator, DongChannel
Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Email: hello@dongchannel.com
You can also visit our Contact page.
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