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Last updated: January 1, 2026

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to website owners.

Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them. Session cookies are deleted when you close your web browser.

How We Use Cookies

History Fanatics uses cookies for the following purposes:

  • Essential: To make our website function properly and provide you with our services
  • Analytics: To understand how visitors use our website and improve its performance
  • Marketing: To deliver relevant content and measure the effectiveness of our communications

Types of Cookies We Use

1. Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the operation of our website. They enable core functionality such as:

  • Security and authentication
  • Remembering your cookie preferences
  • Page navigation and access to secure areas
  • Form submission functionality

Necessary cookies cannot be disabled as they are required for the website to work properly.

Cookie Name Purpose Duration
cookieConsent Stores your cookie preferences 1 year
cookieConsentDate Records when consent was given 1 year

2. Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. We use this information to improve our website and the services we offer.

Analytics cookies may collect information such as:

  • Which pages you visit
  • How long you spend on each page
  • How you arrived at our website
  • What you click on while using our website

Analytics cookies are optional. You can choose to accept or reject these cookies.

3. Marketing Cookies

These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests. They also help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

Marketing cookies may be used to:

  • Remember that you visited our website
  • Tailor advertisements to your interests
  • Limit the number of times you see an advertisement
  • Track the performance of advertising campaigns

Marketing cookies are optional. You can choose to accept or reject these cookies.

Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies on our website are placed by third-party services. These third parties may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites.

Google Maps

We use Google Maps to display our location on the contact page. Google may set cookies when you interact with the map. For more information, see Google's Privacy Policy.

FormSubmit

Our contact forms use FormSubmit for processing. FormSubmit may set cookies as part of their service. For more information, see FormSubmit's Privacy Policy.

How to Configure or Reject Cookies

Through Our Website

When you first visit our website, you will see a cookie consent banner. You can:

  • Accept All: Accept all cookies, including analytics and marketing cookies
  • Reject All: Accept only necessary cookies
  • Customize: Choose which types of optional cookies to accept

You can change your preferences at any time by clearing your browser's cookies and reloading our website, which will display the consent banner again.

Through Your Browser

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can typically:

  • View cookies stored on your device
  • Accept or reject cookies
  • Delete all or specific cookies
  • Block cookies from specific sites

To manage cookies in your browser, refer to your browser's help documentation:

Impact of Disabling Cookies

If you disable cookies, some features of our website may not function properly. For example:

  • Your cookie preferences will not be remembered
  • Some interactive features may not work
  • We will not be able to remember you if you return to our website

Similar Technologies

In addition to cookies, we may use similar technologies such as:

  • Local Storage: Stores data on your device like cookies, but with larger capacity
  • Session Storage: Similar to local storage but cleared when you close your browser
  • Web Beacons: Small graphic images used to track user behavior

These technologies are governed by the same preferences as cookies.

Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legislation, or our practices. We will post any changes on this page and update the "Last updated" date.

We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

Contact Us

If you have questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us: