Cookie Policy

What cookies are

Cookies are small text files a website stores on your device. They let a site remember a preference, keep you signed in, measure how many people visited a page, protect against abuse, and, where enabled, support advertising. Similar technologies such as pixels and local storage work in comparable ways and are covered by this policy too.

Why this site uses them

To make the site work properly, to remember the consent choice you made so you are not asked on every page, to understand which writing readers actually read, and, where advertising is switched on, to support that advertising within the limits of your consent.

Essential cookies

These keep the site functioning: they hold your cookie preferences, protect forms against abuse, and support security. They cannot be switched off through the consent banner, because the site cannot operate correctly without them, and they are not used to build a profile of you.

Preference cookies

These remember choices you have made so the site behaves consistently on your next visit. Blocking them will not break the site, but some settings will have to be made again each time you return.

Analytics cookies

These count visits and show which pages are read, how readers arrive, and where they leave. The information is used in aggregate to improve the writing and the structure of the site. Analytics cookies are only set once you have agreed to them.

Advertising cookies

Where advertising is enabled, partners may use cookies or similar identifiers to measure adverts, limit how often the same one is shown, and make advertising more relevant or more contextual. These are only set with your consent, and each partner operates under its own policy.

Third-party cookies

Some cookies are set by services this site relies on rather than by the site itself, such as embedded video, an email provider, an analytics provider, or an advertising partner. Those services control their own cookies and publish their own policies.

Managing your preferences

You can change or withdraw your choice at any time through the consent controls on this site. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings, and most browsers let you refuse them entirely. Blocking some cookies may affect how parts of the site work.

Changes and contact

This policy will be updated when the site adds, removes, or changes the services it uses, and the date above will show when that last happened. Questions about cookies can go to hello@drgracelyn.com.