Cookie Policy
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. They are essential for things like saving your login session and remembering your preferences.
2. How FreyaLusty.com Uses Cookies
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- Essential Operation: These cookies are strictly necessary for you to browse the website and use features such as accessing your private “Story Vault” membership area or maintaining your shopping cart session. Without these cookies, the site cannot function properly.
- Performance and Analytics: These cookies collect information about how you use our website. For example, which pages you visit most often. This data helps us analyse and improve the performance of our Site and the quality of the content we deliver.
- Functionality: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your username or region) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For example, comment cookies remember your details so you don’t have to re-enter them.
- Advertising and Targeting: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns.
3. Types of Cookies Used on This Site
| Category | Typical Purpose | Examples |
| Strictly Necessary | User authentication, maintaining login session, site security, processing payments. | Session cookies, Paid Memberships Pro login cookies. |
| Functionality | Remembering your display settings, remembering your comment details. | WordPress comment cookies, Screen options cookies. |
| Analytics/Performance | Tracking page visits, popular content, and site speed. | Google Analytics, internal traffic tracking tools. |
| Targeting/Advertising | Tracking user behaviour to deliver personalized ads. | Google Ads cookie, Facebook Pixel. |
4. Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Service and deliver advertisements. These include:
- Google Analytics: For tracking website traffic and performance.
- Gravatar: To display your profile picture alongside your comments.
- Payment Processors: Cookies used by Stripe or PayPal to securely process your transactions.
5. Your Choices and Cookie Consent
Under the GDPR and UK e-Privacy regulations, we are required to obtain your informed consent for the placement of any cookies that are not strictly necessary for the functioning of the Site.
- Consent Mechanism: When you first visit the Site, you will see a cookie consent banner. You will be given the option to Accept or Manage Preferences for our non-essential cookies.
- Withdrawal of Consent: You can withdraw your consent at any time by [ACTION: Insert clear instructions on how the user can change their mind, e.g., “clicking the ‘Cookie Settings’ link in the website footer,” or “clearing your browser’s cookie history.”]
6. How to Control Cookies in Your Browser
You can instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies. Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.
7. Policy Amendments
We reserve the right to modify this Cookies Policy at any time to reflect changes in our use of cookies, new technologies, or to ensure compliance with relevant UK and EU legislation. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting the revised policy on our website. We encourage users to periodically review this page for the latest information on our cookie practices. By continuing to use our website after any changes have been made, you accept the revised policy.