What are cookies and why do we use them?

In the online world, a cookie is a very small file stored on your computer when you visit some websites, including PalaceOfPossibilities.com. The file contains a limited amount of data which can be read by the web server or the client computer. Cookies are widely used and accepted as an integral part of a fully functioning internet.

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We use cookies for a few different reasons. Most importantly, we use cookies to identify logged-in members and to secure our site against malicious intent. We use analytic cookies to understand how our visitors navigate this website and interact with our pages. In the past, and possibly in the future, we might use affiliate cookies to understand when users are referred to this website from our partners. There are occasions when we use third party cookies. This occurs mostly when we participate in online advertising campaigns.

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Cookie Details

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A Session Cookie is created when you arrive on PalaceOfPossibilities.com and removed when you leave. It allows us to understand whether a visitor is logged into our system as a member, or if they are using the site as a guest. It also affords us the ability to secure our forms against hackers and spammers. Our system is unusable without it.

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Google Analytics Cookies are used to understand how our visitors use our site. All information collected is anonymous and is summarized so we can understand trends and site metrics. No information is used for marketing, tracking individual users, or revealing personal information. You can read Google's policies here.

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We place Marketing Cookies when we advertise with third party websites. we use their cookies so that we can understand the benefit of our advertising dollars.

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Third party cookies are cookies set by someone other than PalaceOfPossibilities.com for their own purposes. The most obvious is YouTube, which we use to embed videos throughout the website.

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We understand the complications of internet privacy and it's relationship to cookies. We are always striving to minimize any personal intrusion and our cookie policy follows that strategy. We only place cookies that we find absolutely necessary and we don't retain any information that is personally identifiable.

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As always, we treat your privacy like it was our own!