What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites. Cookies enable the website to remember preferences (language, font size and other display preferences) for a period of time so that you don’t have to keep re-entering them. Websites also use cookies to count site usage statistics so they can analyze ways to track the performance of their site and identify avenues of improvement.
- What Are Cookies On A Computer? (Lifewire.com)
To comply with privacy laws and guidelines, we provide an option to block all cookies and consent to all cookies, and a way to revoke your consent.
Note: Blocking cookies may impact your experience of the site and the services we are able to offer on the site.
How do we use cookies?
Gregchaseauthor.com uses cookies to:
- Make our website work as you’d expect
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Collect visitor data and analyze traffic on this site. Additionally, we do engage in online marketing that uses cookies that may track you beyond this website.
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
What cookies do we use?
Gregchaseauthor.com uses the following cookies:
Necessary Cookies
Some cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off by us. These cookies are usually set in response to actions you’ve made. Examples include setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms. These cookies can only be disabled by changing your internet browser preferences.
Mobile Theme – allows the site to function on mobile devices
Performance Cookies
Performance cookies monitor how visitors reach and interact with our website. This is used so that we can see figures on the types of content users enjoy most so we can improve our site and services and improve your experience in using the site.
*Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic and uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our website. We have set our unique site tracking code to make visitor IPs anonymous.
Blog Comments – These cookies are for the convenience of site visitors only and retain a commenter’s information (name, email, and website link entered when making a comment) so they will be recognized as a commenter and won’t have to re-type their information each time they want to comment.
Facebook Pixel – allows us to engage in online marketing beyond this website
Third-party Links*
Social Networks
Booksellers
*Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These links are provided as a convenience. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Persistent Cookies
Also called a permanent cookie, or a stored cookie, a persistent cookie is stored on a user’s hard drive until it expires (persistent cookies are set with expiration dates) or until the user deletes the cookie. This type of cookie can be used to identify you over multiple independent sessions. These are used the handle the “Remember Me” or “Keep Me Logged In” functions found on many websites and apps.
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Other Cookies
We scan our website frequently to maintain as accurate a list as possible of cookies in use.
Who Has Access to Cookie Data?
Only we have access to our cookies; cookies placed by third parties can be accessed by these third parties. Cookie Data will not be used for any other purpose than those stated in this Cookie Policy.
How can you manage your cookie preferences?
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish using your browser settings.
For example, Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Opera, or Chrome allow you to set which cookies to accept and which to reject. Where you find these settings depends on which browser you use so use the “Help” function in your browser to locate the settings you need. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
If you need further assistance with managing the cookies and cookie settings in your browser, check out the official documentation for your browser. Chrome users may be interested in the official opt-out plugin from Google.
Additional reading on cookie management:
- How to Delete Cookies in Every Major Browser (Lifewire.com)
- How to Enable Cookies in Your Browser (Lifewire.com)