Cookie Policy

Introduction

Mothers Against Media Addiction (“MAMA”) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting children from the harmful effects of media and technology overuse. It brings together parents, caregivers, and advocates to promote healthier, real-world experiences for kids. The organization provides education, resources, and advocacy to help families reduce screen addiction and foster well-being.

This Cookies Policy describes MAMA’s use of cookies on our website, located at (www.wearemama.org.)

What are cookies and what do they do?

Cookies are text files stored on your computer that are created when you visit websites that use cookies. They are used to store and retrieve information that can be used for purposes such as site preferences, remembering prior visits or login information, or what pages on a website you have looked at before. Cookies expire and are deleted at a date specified in the cookie, or, if no expiration date is set, the cookie is deleted at the end of the browsing session.

How are cookies used on WeAreMAMA.org?

MAMA uses cookies to store information about current and prior visits, login information, and to enable enhanced features such as contact forms. If you choose to disable cookies you will still be able to use and browse www.wearemama.org, but some features may be unavailable.

MAMA also uses partners to provide certain services to enhance our website, such as contact forms and visitor statistics.

WeAreMAMA.org uses the following types of cookies:

  1. Strictly necessary cookies:
    These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, you may not be able to view certain web pages.
  2. Performance cookies:
    These cookies collect information on how visitors use our website, such as which pages are the most popular and whether error messages occur. Performance cookies do not collect information that identifies you and performance information is aggregated and anonymous. Performance cookies are used only to improve how our website works.
  3. Functionality cookies:
    These cookies allow our website to remember personalized settings that enable enhanced features. Functionality cookies cannot be used by other sites to track you.
  4. Targeted Advertising cookies:
    MAMA does not use marketing cookies and does not track.
 

These are details of the main cookies that we use and what they are used for:

Cookie 

Purpose

Duration

_ga_*

Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views.

1 year 1 month 4 days

_ga

The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors.

1 year 1 month 4 days

Elementor

This cookie is used by the website’s WordPress theme. It allows the website owner to implement or change the website’s content in real-time.

Never

wpEmojiSettingsSupports

WordPress sets this cookie when a user interacts with emojis on a WordPress site. It helps determine if the user’s browser can display emojis properly.

Session

NID

Google sets the cookie for advertising purposes; to limit the number of times the user sees an ad, to unwanted mute ads, and to measure the effectiveness of ads.

6 months

__cf_bm

This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management.

1 hour

incap_ses_*

This is an Incapsula DDoS Protection and Web Application Firewall cookie that is used to relate HTTP requests to a certain session.

Session

nlbi_*

The Hotels Network sets this cookie to improve security and provide load-balancing to ensure that a client’s requests are sent to the same origin server.

Session

visid_incap_*

Incapsula sets this cookie to provide cloud-based website security services.

1 year

How do I change my cookie settings?

Our cookie banner allows you to decline all but essential cookies or to adjust your cookie settings.

Cookies are usually enabled by default. All major internet browsers support disabling or deleting cookies. Information on how to manage cookies on major browsers is available at www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies.

More information about cookies

To find out more about cookies, including how they work and how to manage or delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

5. Consent

By using our website, you consent to the use of cookies as described in this Cookies Policy. If you do not agree to this, do not use this website.

6. Changes

This Cookies Policy may be updated from time to time for any reason. We will notify you of any changes to our Cookies Policy by posting the new Cookies Policy on this page. Please consult this Cookies Policy regularly for any changes.

If you or someone you 
love is having a mental health crisis:

Dial 988

The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is a hotline for individuals in crisis or for those looking to help someone else. For crisis chat services or more information visit 988lifeline.org.

Text SAVE to 741741

The Crisis Text Line is a texting service for emotional crisis support. It is free, confidential, and available 24/7.

Important Note

As an organization of parents, MAMA is unable to make treatment referrals and is not qualified to diagnose or give any type of medical advice. For assistance with clinical disorders, we encourage you to reach out to your local care provider.

DISCLAIMER: THIS WEBSITE DOES NOT PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE

The information contained on this website, including but not limited to, text, graphics, images and other material, are for informational purposes only. No material on this site is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified healthcare provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or treatment, and never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this website. If your child is experiencing negative consequences of problematic media and technology use, we encourage you to speak with your pediatrician.