Cookies

This website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites

Our cookies help us:

• Make our website work as you’d expect
• Remember your settings during and between visits
• Offer you free services/content (thanks to advertising)
• Improve the speed/security of the site
• Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
• Continuously improve our website for you

We do not use cookies to:

• Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
• Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
• Pay sales commissions

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below

Granting Permission To Use Cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies, we take this (and your continued use of our website) to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

More about Cookies

Our Own Cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

• Allowing you to add comments to our site

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

Social Media Cookies

You can easily ‘like’ or share our content on Facebook, Twitter, and other similar social media websites that we have included sharing buttons on our site.

Cookies are set by:  Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Pinterest.

The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.

Anonymous User Statistics

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called ‘analytics’ programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

Book Club Chat uses: Google Analytics

Advertising Cookies & Affiliate Advertising

Book Club Chat uses a small number of methods to monetize this website.  (Read more in my Affiliate Disclosure.)

In order to track advertising, a number of external parties will set a cookie so they can reward me for a click or sale.

You can learn more about online advertising at http://www.youronlinechoices.com .

I use the following advertising/affiliate networks (not always at the same time – but here’s a general overview of the services I use!)

• Amazon Associates
• Google Adsense
• Mediavine
• Book Of The Month

Turning Cookies Off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.

If you have any questions, please contact us.