To make the CRANKY PHILOSOPHER website work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. What these cookies are, how we use them, and how you can manage them, are explained in this document.
For additional information, please read our:
• Privacy Policy and
• Terms of Use.
What are cookies?
The bad news first: due to bad habits of computer geeks and by law in response to such bad habits, cookies no longer are what you thought they used to be. Trust us, we know – we still love chocolate cookies.
By law, however, a cookie is now a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. First party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.
How do we use cookies?
First-party cookies
We set and control only functional cookies cookies, the purpose of which is to:
• Store visitor preferences, (such as user name, language, etc.) for a certain period of time; that way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit; and
• Make our website operational.
A cookie named wordpress_test_cookie is set on viewing a website page to check if cookies are enabled on the browser, to provide appropriate user experience to the viewers.
We do not sell or otherwise provide any of your information that we may have obtained through our website to third parties.
Third-party cookies
However, to enhance the administrative and presentational features of our website, we also make use of the information technology products of third parties, over whom we have no control and which could store third party non-functional cookies on your device, without our knowledge, consent or reasonable means of preventing this. As we have no control over such use of third-party cookies, we would also not be able to commit such third parties to honouring our promise to you to not sell or otherwise provide any of your information to others.
A particular risk in accepting third-party cookies lies in that they might store personally identifiable information (e.g. your IP address) on your device, which might remain accessible to third parties. To minimize this risk, we do not make use of third-party services, which are known to set non-functional cookies for the purpose of tracking website users, such as Google Analytics, Facebook and X formerly Twitter.
You should be aware that if you follow a link on our website to another website (e.g. YouTube), you become subject to the cookies and privacy policies of that other website. We accept no responsibility for such.
How can you manage cookies?
If you object to having cookies stored on your device, the remedies available to you are:
• Use your browser in private / incognito mode: this will not prevent cookies from being stored on your device, but your browser should automatically delete them once you close the browser window – please consult your browser’s documentation regarding this;
• Configure your browser to block cookies- please consult your browser’s documentation regarding this; or
• Do not browse our website; or, for that matter, probably most other websites. Some may offer you the facility to refuse or manage cookies, and to instruct them not to sell your personal information, but such promises are technically and legally problematic to fulfil, and you would not know for sure to what extent they have been fulfilled. The remedies outlined above are at least under your control.
Further information, about which we make no representations, may be obtained at the following links:
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