Last Updated: 17 August 2026
Tales & Beyond uses cookies and similar technologies to make talesandbeyond.com work properly, understand how visitors use the Website, improve the reading experience, and measure the performance of our content and digital activities.
This Cookie Policy explains how cookies may be used on the Website and the choices available to you.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites store on your device when you visit them.
They allow a website to remember information about your visit and help it recognise your browser when you return.
We may also use similar technologies, such as pixels, tags, local storage, and web beacons, for purposes similar to cookies.
2. How Tales & Beyond Uses Cookies
We may use cookies for the following purposes:
A. Essential Website Cookies
Some cookies are necessary for the Website to function properly.
These cookies may help us:
- Load and display pages correctly
- Maintain basic Website functionality
- Remember essential technical settings
- Maintain Website security
- Detect and prevent certain forms of misuse or abuse
These cookies are generally necessary for providing the Website and cannot always be disabled through our Website.
B. Website Analytics
We may use analytics cookies to understand how visitors use Tales & Beyond.
For example, analytics technologies may help us understand:
- How many visitors access the Website
- Which stories or pages are most frequently viewed
- How visitors navigate between pages
- How long visitors spend reading or browsing
- Which pages visitors enter or leave from
- Which websites or sources send visitors to us
- Whether particular Website features are being used
- How the Website is performing
We use this information primarily to understand audience behaviour and improve our stories, content, Website structure, and overall user experience.
Analytics information may be collected in an aggregated or pseudonymised form where appropriate.
C. Preference Cookies
We may use cookies to remember certain choices or preferences made while using the Website.
For example, these may help us remember:
- Display preferences
- Certain Website settings
- Cookie preferences
- Other choices that improve your browsing experience
These cookies help reduce the need for you to enter the same preferences repeatedly.
D. Content and Media Cookies
Tales & Beyond may use third-party content or media services to display certain content on the Website.
For example, if a page contains an embedded video, social-media post, image, audio player, or other third-party content, the relevant service provider may place cookies or use similar technologies when that content is loaded or interacted with.
These technologies are controlled by the respective third-party provider.
E. Marketing and Advertising Cookies
If we use advertising or marketing services, cookies and similar technologies may be used to understand how visitors interact with our Website and marketing campaigns.
They may help us:
- Measure the effectiveness of campaigns
- Understand how visitors arrive at the Website
- Measure interactions or conversions
- Build general audience insights
- Deliver or evaluate relevant advertising
- Avoid repeatedly showing the same advertisement
The use of advertising cookies will depend on the advertising and marketing technologies implemented on the Website.
3. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies may be placed by third-party services that we use on the Website.
These may include services for:
- Website analytics
- Advertising
- Website performance
- Security
- Embedded media
- Social-media functionality
- Other Website features
Third-party providers may collect information about your interaction with their services in accordance with their own privacy policies.
Tales & Beyond does not control the cookies or tracking technologies independently operated by third parties.
4. What Information Can Cookies Collect?
Depending on the type of cookie or technology being used, information may include:
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- IP address
- Approximate location
- Pages visited
- Stories viewed
- Time spent on pages
- Referring website
- General Website interactions
- Cookie or device identifiers
- Preferences and settings
Cookies generally do not directly tell us your name or other information that identifies you personally. However, information collected through cookies may sometimes be combined with other information where permitted by applicable law.
5. For How Long do these Cookies Remain with Us?
Cookies may be either:
Session Cookies
These are temporary and are generally deleted when you close your browser.
Persistent Cookies
These remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.
The duration of individual cookies may vary depending on their purpose and the service provider that places them.
6. Managing Cookies
You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings.
Most browsers allow you to:
- View cookies stored on your device
- Delete existing cookies
- Block some or all cookies
- Block third-party cookies
- Receive notifications before cookies are stored
You may also be able to manage certain cookie categories through a cookie-consent or preference mechanism provided on the Website.
Please note that disabling essential cookies may cause some parts of the Website to function incorrectly or become unavailable.
7. Your Consent
Where applicable law requires consent for certain types of cookies or similar technologies, Tales & Beyond will seek the appropriate consent before using those technologies.
You may withdraw or change your cookie preferences where the Website provides an appropriate mechanism for doing so.
Your withdrawal of consent will not affect processing that was lawfully carried out before your consent was withdrawn.
8. Cookies and Privacy
Information collected through cookies may constitute personal data where it can be linked to an identifiable individual.
Our collection and use of personal information, including information collected through cookies, is also governed by our Privacy Policy.
9. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time if:
- We introduce new Website features
- We start or stop using particular cookies
- We introduce new analytics or advertising technologies
- Our third-party service providers change
- Applicable privacy or data-protection requirements change
When we update this policy, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of the page.
10. Contact
If you have any questions about how cookies are used on Tales & Beyond, you can contact us through the contact details provided on our Website.
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