Every cookie on this site, what it does, and the switch that turns it off. No mystery crumbs.
This Cookie Policy explains the cookies and similar browser storage used on cecerants.com, run by Cece Rants Raves & Reviews LLC. It goes with our Privacy Policy, which explains what we do with the information.
The short version
- A few cookies keep the site working: logging in, remembering your cookie choices, and remembering that you confirmed you are 18. These are always on.
- Analytics (Google Analytics and Jetpack Stats) and embeds (the Instagram feed and Goodreads widgets) are optional, and each has its own switch.
- In Europe, the UK and Canada, optional cookies stay off until you turn them on. Elsewhere they start on, and you can turn them off at any time.
- There are no advertising cookies on the site.
Your cookie settings
Change your choices here at any time. They apply straight away, and turning something off also clears the cookies it set on our site.
Use the “Cookie settings” link at the bottom of every page.
Your choices are saved in a cookie on this device for 12 months, so you will be asked again after that, if you clear your cookies, or on a different browser. We may also ask again if we add a new kind of cookie.
What cookies are
Cookies are small text files a website stores in your browser so it can remember something between pages or visits. “First-party” cookies are set by cecerants.com itself; “third-party” cookies are set by another company whose content is on the page. Sites can also keep small notes in your browser’s local storage, which works much the same way; we list those here too.
Essential: always on
These make the site work and cannot be switched off in the settings. They are not used for analytics or ads.
| Name | Set by | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
cr_consent |
cecerants.com | Remembers your cookie choices | 12 months |
wordpress_logged_in_…, wordpress_sec_… |
cecerants.com | Keeps you logged in to the Common Room or the site | Until you log out, or up to 14 days |
wordpress_test_cookie |
cecerants.com | Checks that your browser accepts cookies when you log in | Until you close the browser |
ccb_wait |
cecerants.com | Pauses Common Room sign-up after an under-age date of birth is entered | 24 hours |
ccb_pk |
cecerants.com | Lets invited testers preview the Common Room before it opens | 14 days (testers only) |
ykyk18 (local storage) |
cecerants.com | Remembers that you confirmed you are 18 or older on the Your Kink, Your Kindle pages | Until you clear your browser data |
ccacosh (local storage) |
cecerants.com | Remembers that you chose to see spoilers on the Conspiracy Corner pages | Until you clear your browser data |
comment_author_…, comment_author_email_…, comment_author_url_… |
cecerants.com | Fills in your name, email and website on the comment form, only if you ask it to | About 1 year |
jetpack_comment_identity_display and related |
cecerants.com (Jetpack) | Remembers that you signed in to comment with WordPress.com | While you are signed in |
Cookies beginning sgpb or sg-popup |
cecerants.com (Popup Builder) | Remembers that you closed a pop-up, such as a newsletter sign-up, so it does not keep appearing. Only set while a pop-up is running | Up to 30 days |
wpEmojiSettingsSupports (session storage) |
cecerants.com (WordPress) | Remembers whether your browser can show emoji | Until you close the tab |
Analytics: your choice
These help us see which reviews and shelves people read, using totals. With analytics switched off, Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and Jetpack Stats do not load at all.
| Name | Set by | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga |
Google Analytics, on cecerants.com | Tells visits from the same browser apart, so we can count visitors | 2 years |
_ga_BCRF0C91SZ |
Google Analytics, on cecerants.com | Keeps track of the current visit | 2 years |
tk_ai, tk_or and similar tk_ cookies |
Jetpack Stats (Automattic) | May be set to count unique visitors and where they came from for the site’s built-in statistics | Up to 1 year |
Google Analytics also receives your IP address, which it uses to estimate your city or region and does not store. Google explains how it uses data from sites like ours at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You can also block Google Analytics on every site with Google’s opt-out browser add-on.
Embeds: your choice
Some pages show content from other services. With embeds switched off, these do not load and you see a placeholder instead, with a button to load just that one.
| What | Where on the site | Run by | Cookies |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instagram feed | Homepage | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Instagram’s own cookies, described in Instagram’s cookie policy |
| Goodreads updates and bookshelf widgets | About page | Goodreads LLC (Amazon) | Goodreads’ own cookies, described in the Goodreads privacy notice |
Advertising: your choice
There are no advertising cookies on the site right now, and the site shows no ads. The settings panel has an Advertising switch so that, if we ever measure an ad campaign (such as Google Ads), you can control it from day one. It is off in Europe, the UK and Canada until you agree, and always off if your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal. We will update this page before anything is added.
Things the switches don’t cover
- Amazon: when you click an affiliate link, you go to Amazon’s website, and Amazon sets its own cookies there, including one that tells Amazon the visit came from us. That happens on Amazon’s site, under Amazon’s privacy notice, not ours.
- Likes: the Like button on reviews is provided by WordPress.com. If you are logged in to WordPress.com, it uses WordPress.com’s cookies to know who is liking.
- Pictures from other sites: profile pictures come from Gravatar, some GIFs come from Giphy, reviewer badges come from NetGalley and BookSirens, and most images come through WordPress.com’s image network. Loading a picture sends your IP address to the company that hosts it. We do not control what they do with it.
- Fonts: some fonts load from Google Fonts, which receives your IP address when the font downloads.
- Site performance: our host, WordPress.com, measures how fast pages load, without cookies.
How we decide which version you see
We guess whether you are in Europe, the UK or Canada from the time zone setting on your device. We do not look up your location to do this. If your device has no time zone we can place, or only reports plain UTC (common with privacy-focused browsers), you get the stricter version, with everything optional switched off until you choose.
If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we automatically switch off advertising cookies, wherever you are.
Controlling cookies in your browser
Every browser lets you see, block and delete cookies, usually under Settings, then Privacy. Blocking all cookies will log you out of the Common Room and make the cookie banner come back on every visit. Your browser’s help pages explain how: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge.
Questions
Email cecerants@gmail.com. We update this page whenever the site starts or stops using a cookie.