1. About this Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Ready Readers uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website or access connected online educational features. It should be read with our Privacy Policy, which explains our broader collection and use of personal information.
Cookies are small text files stored on a browser or device. Similar technologies include local storage, software development kits, tags, pixels, scripts, and identifiers that recognize a browser, remember settings, secure a session, or measure activity. In this Policy, “cookies” refers to these technologies collectively unless the context requires otherwise.
Some cookies are set directly by us and are known as first-party cookies. Others may be set by service providers whose technology supports hosting, security, payment, video, analytics, or learning functions and are known as third-party cookies. Third parties may process information under their own privacy notices.
2. How we use cookies
We use cookies to keep the website and learning features functioning; protect forms, sessions, and accounts; remember preferences; understand whether pages load and work correctly; diagnose errors; measure navigation and feature use; improve content and accessibility; and, where enabled and permitted, evaluate the effectiveness of communications or campaigns.
We do not use cookies to collect complete payment card numbers. We do not knowingly use cookies to build advertising profiles of children. We do not currently sell personal information for money or knowingly share cookie-derived information for cross-context behavioral advertising. If that practice changes, we will update this Policy and provide legally required controls before using optional technologies for that purpose.
3. Categories of cookies
Strictly necessary
These technologies support core operation, such as page delivery, load balancing, security, fraud prevention, form processing, network management, session continuity, authentication, shopping or enrollment state, and consent records. Because the website cannot provide requested functions reliably without them, they are generally active by default and are not disabled through an optional-cookie preference tool. You can block them in a browser, but parts of the website may stop working.
Preferences and functionality
These technologies remember voluntary choices such as language, region, display preference, accessibility setting, saved form state, or media preference. They help provide a more consistent experience but are not required for basic public pages. Where applicable, they are used based on consent or another lawful basis permitted in your location.
Analytics and performance
These technologies help us understand aggregated or pseudonymous activity such as page views, navigation patterns, approximate session duration, referral source, browser or device category, feature interactions, and technical errors. We use the information to evaluate performance, identify confusing content, improve learning flows, and maintain reliability. We seek to limit analytics collection and configure providers with reasonable privacy settings.
Embedded and third-party media
A live workshop, video, payment interface, scheduling tool, or other embedded feature may use third-party cookies to provide that requested function. These technologies may activate when you load or interact with the feature. The third party’s notice explains its independent processing. We avoid loading non-essential embedded services before consent where applicable.
Advertising or campaign measurement
If we introduce optional campaign measurement, it may help us understand whether a communication led to a website visit or enrollment request. We do not currently use this category for cross-site behavioral advertising. Any future material change will be reflected in the cookie preference interface and this Policy.
4. Typical technologies and duration
The precise names used by Shopify, our theme, and connected providers may change when services are updated. The following table describes the types we may use rather than claiming that every listed example is active on every visit.
Session cookies expire when the browser session ends. Persistent cookies remain until their stated expiration or earlier deletion. A provider may use several identifiers with different durations. You may contact us for available current details about an identified cookie or provider.
5. Your controls
Where a cookie preference interface is available, you may accept, reject, or adjust optional categories. Strictly necessary cookies remain active because they provide a service you request or protect the website. Changing a preference does not always remove an existing cookie; you may also need to delete stored cookies in your browser.
Most browsers allow you to view, block, or delete cookies and control whether sites may store them. Blocking all cookies may prevent forms, logins, checkout, video, or learning features from working. Browser settings may be device- and profile-specific, so choices may need to be repeated on another device or after clearing storage.
Some browsers or extensions send Global Privacy Control or “Do Not Track” signals. Industry treatment of Do Not Track is not uniform. Where applicable law requires recognition of a supported opt-out preference signal, we will process it for the associated browser or device. Because we do not currently sell personal information or use cross-context behavioral advertising, such a signal may not change the basic operation of this website.
You can also limit certain analytics or embedded features using provider controls, browser privacy modes, content blockers, or device settings. Those tools are provided independently and may affect functionality.
6. Cookie data retention and security
We retain cookie-derived information for a period appropriate to the purpose and then delete, aggregate, or de-identify it. Security and consent records may be kept long enough to demonstrate compliance, investigate misuse, and protect systems. Analytics records may be retained long enough to compare performance over meaningful periods and may then be aggregated. Provider contracts, legal requirements, backup cycles, or active disputes may affect a particular retention period.
We use reasonable safeguards designed to limit unauthorized access to cookie-derived information, including access controls, provider review, secure transmission where appropriate, and minimization. No browser storage or internet transmission is completely secure.
7. Third-party services
Our website may be hosted or operated through Shopify and may use providers for payments, analytics, video conferencing, email, security, or learning delivery. When a third party determines its own purposes for cookies, its privacy and cookie documentation controls that independent activity. We do not control browser technologies placed on a third-party site after you leave our website.
8. Changes to this Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when technologies, providers, laws, or practices change. The “Last updated” date identifies the latest revision. For material changes involving optional cookies, we will update available notices or preference tools and obtain consent where required.
9. Contact
Questions about cookies, current providers, or available preference controls may be directed to:
Ready Readers
EMAIL: learning@readyreadersprograms.com
ADDRESS: 4008 Manorbrier Cir, Castle Rock, CO 80104
PHONE: +1 970-709-0187
When contacting us, identify the browser, device type, and cookie or provider name if known. Do not send passwords, payment card details, or other sensitive credentials.