What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, tablet, or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, enhance user experience, and provide information to the website owners. Cookies enable a website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size, and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
How We Use Cookies
At The AI Cleric, we use cookies for several purposes to improve your browsing experience and the functionality of our Site:
Remembering Your Preferences:
Cookies help us recall your settings and preferences (e.g., dark mode selection, language settings) so you don’t have to reconfigure them on subsequent visits.
Website Analytics and Performance:
We use cookies to collect information about how visitors use our Site, such as which pages are most popular, the time spent on pages, and the paths taken through the Site. This helps us understand user behavior, identify areas for improvement, and optimize Site performance.
Supporting Marketing and Affiliate Efforts:
Cookies are utilized to track the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and to manage our affiliate partnerships, ensuring proper attribution for commissions (as detailed in our Privacy Policy and Disclaimer).
Enabling Certain Features and Functionality:
Some cookies are essential for the core functionality of the Site, such as secure logins (if applicable) or interactive elements.
Types of Cookies We Use
We categorize the cookies used on our Site as follows:
Essential Cookies (Strictly Necessary Cookies):
These cookies are fundamental for the Site to function correctly. They enable basic features like page navigation, accessing secure areas of the website, and ensuring security. The Site cannot function properly without these cookies, and they do not store any personally identifiable information.
Analytics/Performance Cookies:
These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Site (e.g., number of visitors, pages visited, source of traffic). This data is aggregated and anonymous, helping us to understand and improve the performance of our Site.
Affiliate Cookies:
These are typically third-party cookies set by our affiliate partners. They are used to track when a user clicks on an affiliate link on our Site and subsequently makes a purchase on the partner’s website. This allows us to earn a commission for the referral.
Marketing/Advertising Cookies:
These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They may also be used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. These are generally set by third-party advertising networks with our permission.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have significant control over how cookies are used on your device. You can manage your cookie preferences through two primary methods:
- Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can typically configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is being sent. Please note that disabling certain cookies (especially essential cookies) may impact the functionality and performance of our Site and other websites you visit. Refer to your browser’s help documentation for specific instructions.
- Cookie Settings Tool: We provide a dedicated “Cookie Settings” tool on our Site that allows you to review and adjust your preferences for non-essential cookies. You can enable or disable categories of cookies (e.g., analytics, marketing) at any time through this tool. Click here to access your Cookie Settings.
Please be aware that if you disable certain cookies, some features of the Site may not function as intended.
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, some cookies on our Site are placed by third parties. These “third-party cookies” are set by domains other than the one you are visiting directly. They are often used by services that provide functionality to the website (e.g., analytics providers like Google Analytics, social media platforms, or advertising networks).
We do not have direct control over these third-party cookies, and their use is governed by the respective privacy and cookie policies of those third parties. We encourage you to review the privacy and cookie policies of any third-party services linked from our Site to understand their data practices.
Email Tracking Technologies
Some emails we send, particularly newsletters or promotional communications, may include small, invisible graphics known as “tracking pixels” or “web beacons.” These technologies allow us to monitor the effectiveness of our email campaigns by tracking actions such as whether an email was opened, if links within the email were clicked, and other engagement metrics.
This data helps us to understand what content is most relevant to our subscribers and to improve our communication strategies. You have the option to opt out of this email tracking at any time by simply unsubscribing from our email list, which will cease the sending of future emails containing these tracking pixels.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in our cookie practices, technologies used, or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page with an updated “Last updated” date. We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy frequently to stay informed about how we use cookies and related technologies.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Cookie Policy, our use of cookies, or your privacy rights, please do not hesitate to contact our dedicated privacy team at:
Email: legal@theaicleric.com