Cookie Policy

Effective date

March 1, 2025

Last updated on

April 8, 2025

‍Introduction

We use cookies to help improve your experience of https://www.alphastory.co. This cookie policy is part of Alpha Story's privacy policy and covers the use of cookies between your device and our site. We also provide basic information on third-party services we may use, which may also use cookies as part of their service, though they are not covered by our policy.

If you don't wish to accept cookies from us, you should instruct your browser to refuse cookies from https://www.alphastory.co, with the understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired content and services.

Explanation

A cookie is a small piece of data that a website stores on your device when you visit, typically containing:

Information about the website itself
A unique identifier that allows the site to recognize your web browser when you return
Additional data serving the purpose of the cookie
The lifespan of the cookie itself

Cookies are used to enable certain features (e.g., logging in), track site usage (e.g., analytics), store user settings (e.g., timezone, notification preferences), and personalize content (e.g., advertising, language).

Cookies set by the website you are visiting are normally referred to as “first-party cookies”, and typically only track your activity on that site. Cookies set by other sites and companies (i.e., third parties) are called “third-party cookies”, and can be used to track you across multiple websites that use the same third-party service.

Types

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are crucial to your experience of a website, enabling core features like user logins, account management, shopping carts, and payment processing. We use essential cookies to enable certain functions on our website.

Performance Cookies

Performance cookies track how you use a website during your visit without collecting personal information about you. Typically, this information is anonymous and aggregated with data from all site users to help companies understand visitor usage patterns, identify and diagnose problems or errors, and improve overall website experience. These cookies may be set by the website you're visiting (first-party) or by third-party services. We use performance cookies on our site.

Functionality Cookies

Functionality cookies collect information about your device and any settings you configure on the website you're visiting (such as language and timezone settings). With this information, websites can provide you with customized, enhanced, or optimized content and services. These cookies may be set by the website you're visiting (first-party) or by a third-party service. We use functionality cookies for selected features on our site.

Targeting/Advertising Cookies

Targeting/advertising cookies help determine what promotional content is more relevant and appropriate to you and your interests. Websites may use them to deliver targeted advertising or to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. This helps companies improve the effectiveness of their campaigns and the quality of content presented to you.

These cookies may be set by the website you're visiting (first-party) or by third-party services. Third-party targeting/advertising cookies may track you across multiple websites that use the same service. We use targeting/advertising cookies on our site.

Third-Party Cookies on Our Site

We may employ third-party companies and individuals on our websites—for example, analytics providers and content partners. We grant these third parties access to selected information to perform specific tasks on our behalf. They may also set third-party cookies to deliver the services they provide.

Third-party cookies can track you across other websites using the same service. As we have no control over third-party cookies, they are not covered by Alpha Story's cookie policy.

Third-Party

Our Third-Party Privacy Promise

We review the privacy policies of all our third-party providers before enlisting their services to ensure their practices align with ours. We will never knowingly include third-party services that compromise or violate the privacy of our users.

Control

If you do not wish to accept cookies from us, you can instruct your browser to refuse cookies from our website. Most browsers are configured to accept cookies by default, but you can update these settings to:

Refuse cookies altogether
Notify you when a website attempts to set or update a cookie

If you browse websites from multiple devices, you may need to update your settings on each device individually.

Although some cookies can be blocked with little impact on your website experience, blocking all cookies may prevent access to certain features and content across the sites you visit.