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Cookie Policy
This page explains how cookie files are used on Prentiss Scholey Speed Test. It is written for visitors who want to know what is stored on their device, why the browser keeps it, and how to change that choice. It is a policy page, not a sales page — there is nothing to sign up for here.
At a glance
- Cookies here keep the speed test page working and remember your display choices.
- You can accept, decline, or clear them at any time in your browser.
- Questions about this document go to the contact details below.
Plain definition
What a cookie file actually is
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store on your device. When you return to the same site, the browser sends that file back with your request, which lets the site remember something about your last visit — a preference you picked, whether you dismissed a notice, or which version of a page you were reading. A cookie does not run programs on your device, and it cannot read other files your browser has saved.
Prentiss Scholey Speed Test uses cookies for a narrow, practical set of jobs: making the speed test pages load and behave correctly, remembering choices you have already made so you are not asked twice, and understanding in aggregate which guides and results pages visitors find useful. We do not use cookie files to sell your data, and we do not build advertising profiles on this site.
If you arrived at a speed test guide or results explainer earlier and want to pick up the thread, you can return to the Prentiss Scholey Speed Test home page or open the How We Test and Report page. Nothing you do with those pages changes this policy.
Cookies are one tool among several for keeping a site usable. Where the same outcome can be achieved without storing anything on your device, we prefer that approach.
Four categories in use
The cookie categories this site uses
Each category below covers a different job. Strictly necessary cookies cannot be turned off without breaking the speed test experience; the other three can be declined without losing access to any guide, glossary entry, or troubleshooting article.
Strictly necessary
Keep the speed test runner working, hold your session steady while a measurement runs, and protect the site from misuse. Set only when needed and removed when their job is done.
Preference
Remember display choices you already made, such as dismissing a notice or picking a unit format, so the same question is not asked twice. Stored on your device only.
Analytics
Tell us which guides and results explainers visitors open, and where a page loses people. Reports are read in aggregate; they are not used to identify an individual visitor.
Third-party service
Set by tools we embed to keep the site secure and stable — for example abuse protection on the contact form. These carry their own notices, which we can point you to.
Managing or removing cookie files
Every mainstream browser lets you see the cookies a site has stored, block new ones, or clear the whole set. Where you make that change decides what gets affected — clearing only prentissscholey.com is different from clearing everything the browser has collected this month.
Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies
See what is stored under prentissscholey.com, remove individual entries, or block third-party cookies site-by-site. Clearing this site only will not sign you out of unrelated services.
Settings → Privacy → Manage Website Data
Search for this domain and remove everything it has stored. Safari's cross-site tracking prevention already limits how long third-party cookies survive, so most visitors find the defaults comfortable.
Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
Use "Manage Exceptions" to allow or block this site specifically. Firefox also lets you clear cookies on close, which is a clean default if you would rather not think about this again.
Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete
Same structure as Chrome, with a per-site block list. If you block all cookies, the speed test runner will still load — you may just be asked to confirm a notice more than once.
Blocking everything is a legitimate choice. If the speed test floor starts looking wrong after you change your browser settings, that is a measurement condition worth writing down — see How to Read Your Speed Test Results.
What a cookie is not
People often fold several ideas together under "cookies." Keeping them apart makes this document easier to trust.
- A cookie is not spyware. It cannot turn on your camera, read your other files, or run code in the background. It is a text file that the browser reads back to the same site.
- A speed test result is not a cookie. Measurements you run are network readings between your device and a test server. They are not stored as tracking identifiers, and this policy does not govern them.
- A cookie is not an account. There is no login on this site. Nothing in our cookie set identifies you personally to another visitor or opens a customer record.
Review cadence
When this policy changes
We review this page whenever the site adds or removes a tool that stores something on your device, or when the way we describe that tool stops being accurate. Because a speed test guide is a working document rather than a marketing brochure, updates are usually small: a category clarified, a browser step renamed, a service removed.
If a change materially widens what the site stores, we will say so at the top of this page rather than quietly editing a paragraph halfway down. The date at the foot of the page reflects the last meaningful revision, not every reformatting pass.
Related documents worth reading alongside this one: the Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle information beyond cookie files, and the Terms of Service, which sets the ground rules for using the site.
Common questions
Cookie questions a visitor actually asks
Do I have to accept cookies to run a speed test?
No. The speed test runner itself works without analytics or preference cookies. If you decline everything except the strictly necessary set, the measurement pages stay usable — you may simply be asked to confirm a notice again on a later visit.
Does clearing cookies change my speed test results?
Clearing cookie files does not rewrite past readings. If you keep a local history we no longer recognize you and your list resets, but the test itself will report the same conditions as any other recent run under equal network load.
Are cookies shared between the guide pages and the test pages?
Yes, they share one domain-level set, which is why a preference you set on the glossary is honored across the site. The Speed Test Metrics Glossary and the Wi-Fi Speed Test Guide are served from the same origin, so the same rules apply.
How do I ask a question about this policy?
Write to TroyRivera@prentissscholey.com or call +17185243042 during business hours, Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM. The postal address is 2724 Clarendon Rd, Brooklyn, NY 11226, USA. The Contact page lists the same details if you would rather use a form.
Questions about this policy?
Reach out by email, phone, or through the contact page. If a troubleshooting question is behind your cookie question, the Troubleshooting Slow Internet guide covers the common causes first.